Arsenal Holds Players Only Meeting Before Hull City Win

Arsenal held a players only crisis meeting before their FA Cup victory at Hull City on Tuesday.

Per Mertesacker, Petr Cech, Mikel Arteta and Tomas Rosicky called the meeting.

“We are not going to lie,” Theo Walcott said. “We know as a unit it has been tough and we all had a good chat among us behind closed doors, without even any of the coaches or the manager knowing about anything and I think it is important that as a team we have got it in us. We just have to produce it more often.”

Walcott outlined how the meeting was called.

“We have quite a lot of experienced players in the dressing room,” Walcott said. “It came from Cech, Mikel, Per and Tomas. We have four good old heads there. I’d like to keep what was said among ourselves but it was very important. We have had a reaction from it anyway.”