Rafael Benítez shows his class as Arsenal fail to learn their lesson | Jonathan Wilson


Arsène Wenger’s lively forwards were undermined by shoddy defending on a day when Newcastle all but secured safety

The quest for meaning, the need to form the unbearably random constituents of our existence into some kind of order, to create a narrative or a value-system, to believe it all somehow matters – it seems integral to humanity. But sometimes a late-season game between two sides with nothing much to play for is just a late-season game between two sides with nothing much to play for.

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