‘Interesting’Alex Iwobi has Wenger purring as Arsenal beat Burnley

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It may be hard now to think of the Clarets as a powerhouse of English football, but they were founder members of the Football League and had won that competition and the FA Cup long before Arsenal.

When teams from Lancashire dominated English football in the late 19th Century, Burnley’s great rivals Blackburn Rovers won the FA Cup three times in succession, a feat considered impossible until now, with Arsenal only four victories away from an unlikely hat-trick.