'Gunners held back by stadium debt', major shareholder claims

Arsenal shareholder Alisher Usmanov believes the club’s nine-year trophy drought could have been avoided had the Gunners not gone into debt to build the Emirates Stadium.

Arsene Wenger’s men beat Hull in last season’s FA Cup final to claim their first piece of silverware since winning the same competition in 2005 with a penalty shoot-out victory over Manchester United.