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A fan asked Emmanuel Frimpong on Twitter why he wasn’t included in the Arsenal squad to face Chelsea in the Capital One Cup match on Tuesday night.
He responded first with a joke, posting: “Lol, I wanna laugh.”
He then Tweeted: “Sometimes I wish I was white and English. #realtalk.”
Fans immediately jumped to conclusion interpreting his race had something to do with his exclusion.
Arsene Wenger is well-known for picking foreign players in his squad since taking over at Arsenal in 1996. Thierry Henry, Patrick Vieira, Sol Campbell, William Gallas, Bacary Sagna, Alex Song, etc.
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Frimpong eventually deleted the tweets and tweeted the following to clarify that he wasn’t accusing Arsene Wenger of being racist for not picking him.
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