Former striker of Lokomotiv Moscow and some English clubs, Peter Odemwingie, condemned London Arsenal’s decision to remove Andrei Arshavin’s birthday greetings from social networks due to criticism from Ukrainian fans.
Arsenal is a disgrace! Odemwingie said they should be ashamed of such a decision. “Sport Express”.
In honor of Arshavin’s birthday, the London club released a video of his goals against Liverpool in 2009. Then he designed poker at the Anfield stadium. However, Arsenal deleted the message after Ukrainian fans began to express their anger by congratulating the former player of the Russian national team.
The press service of the Russian national football team later commented on Arsenal’s action, “You can delete a post, but you cannot delete your history.”
Arshavin played for Arsenal from 2009 to 2013, making a total of 144 games for the team and scoring 31 goals.
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