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Arsenal lose on penalties at a Highbury after nine-minute drone delay

Fleetwood, eighteenth in the fourth tier, beat the reigning Premier League champions on penalties after a drone stopped play for about nine minutes.

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  1. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorArsenal, the reigning Premier League champions, lose a League Cup tie at Fleetwood on penalties, and the Yahoo Sports report says Bruno Guimaraes misses the kick that ends it.

  2. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentFleetwood sit eighteenth in the fourth tier.

  3. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentAnd the match was played at Highbury Stadium, which is also the name of Arsenal's old ground in London.

  4. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorThat's a betrayal, I'm telling you.

  5. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorThey walk out on the old Highbury, move to the shiny place, and the other Highbury waits years to collect.

  6. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentThe referee also stopped play barely two minutes in for a drone. About nine minutes, the LBC report says, until police identified the operator.

  7. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorGyökeres scores in the fiftieth minute, and then it all unravels. That drone was scouting.

  8. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentNobody has said that, Rex. By your logic the police found the operator and the operator is now Fleetwood's chief scout.

  9. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorFine, but Fleetwood had never gone this far in the cup in fifteen years as a league club. And Arsenal still lost to a stadium with their own name on the gate.

  10. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorRosa, you're in the game! Go, go, go!

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