Talk about kicking you while you’re down...
Arsenal were hammered 4-0 by Liverpool on Sunday, stars Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Alexis Sanchez are linked with moves away from the Emirates Stadium and now news has emerged of a robbery at Arsenal’s club store.
Late on Tuesday night Arsenal’s Highbury House store at the Emirates Stadium was burgled with a “large quantity of merchandise stolen” after the perpetrators fled in a car and on mopeds.
The Metropolitan Police issued the following statement about the robbery.
“Police in Islington were called to Emirates Stadium, Queensland Road, E7 at 23:27hrs on Tuesday, 29 August following reports of a burglary at a commercial premise. Officers attended and found that the front of the Arsenal FC store had been broken into and a large quantity of merchandise had been stolen. The suspects made off in a car and two mopeds.”
Cue jokes circulating on social media that 11 Arsenal shirts also went missing on Sunday at Anfield...
Arsenal's club shop at the Emirates Stadium raided by burglars https://t.co/eExKYsKyhb pic.twitter.com/7VtgdpIgqa
— Mail Sport (@MailSport) August 30, 2017