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The REAL reason why Almunia was left on bench

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From: justarsenal.com

Almunia suffered a tragedy

It has been revealed today the real reason why Arsene Wenger left Manuel Almunia on the Arsenal bench, and was probably the reason why no-one was told about Almunia’s “mystery virus”.

I always said there must be something deeper behind that excuse, because it has never taken six weeks to get over any cold, not even swine flu!

But now we know; It was because Almunia’s family suffered a personal tragedy when his wife’s mother was killed in a car crash in Spain in September.

Although Almunia carried on training as usual, Arsene Wenger felt that his Number One goalkeeper should be given more time to get over the pain he shared with his wife.

It was only this weekend against Tottenham that Wenger believed that Almunia was his old self again and restored him to the first-team.

Vito Mannone did a good job in Almunia’s place for the first few weeks, but then errors started to creep into his game, but the experience will hold him in good stead in the future. But in the meantime, Almunia will remain Number One in Wenger’s eyes.

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