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Mansfield: Manager Nigel Clough, of course the son of Brian (who never won this trophy), has been speaking to Peter Lansley this week about his dad, his ‘therapet’ dog Bobbie and taking on the Premier League leaders today:

We can watch Arsenal for their last 10 games. It would just frighten the life out of us. We’ll do some rudimentary work on corners. We know roughly how they’re going to come in, whatever their personnel. But if top Premier League teams can’t deal with them, I don’t know how a bottom-half League One side is meant to. I don’t want the players worrying unduly. There’s only one ball coming in at any one time. Deal with it.

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