How Arsenal Destroy City To Win Shield

SUMMARY

Arsenal experienced that winning feeling at Wembley once again as a polished performance saw off Manchester City in the Community Shield.

Santi Cazorla opened the scoring for the FA Cup holders with a low shot in the 21st minute and Aaron Ramseyadded a second three minutes before the break, finishing expertly after good work from Yaya Sanogo.

The best was saved for last though, substitute Olivier Giroud producing a thunderous effort from 25 yards to put the seal on a eye-catching victory over a rather subdued City side.

This is the 13th time Arsenal have lifted the Shield in its various guises but it is the nature of the victory that will most please Arsène Wenger.

His replenished squad look fit, focused and fluent, and they will be on a high when the first points of the Premier League season are at stake against Crystal Palace next weekend.

After this triumph there will be talk of 'laying down a marker'. That can be overplayed, but momentum is vital in football and Arsenal have plenty of it going into the new campaign.

Osun polls: Omisore writes protest letter

The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP in saturday’s governoship election in Osun state, Senator Iyiola Omisore last night protested the alleged announcement of the result by the All Progressives Congress APC.

In the letter of protest personally signed by Senator Omisore and addressed to the state Resident Electoral Commissioner, the PDP candidate alleged that contrary to the results being circulated around by the APC, he was actually leading in the poll.

The letter reads in part:” I hereby condemn the APC candidate , Raufu Aregbesola declaring his own version of the results without recourse to INEC. With the facts of results, its apparent that the PDP candidate , Dr. Iyiola Omisore is leading”.

“This act of APC is in conflict with the provisions of Electoral Law 2010 whereby a candidate can concoct figures and released to confuse the public thus make this election inconclusive until facts behind the figures are released by the INEC”.

” The peace and stability of this state is such under an unprecedented threat . The results so far by APC remained cancelled”.

source: http://www.vanguardngr.com/