{"id":120286,"date":"2019-05-24T17:29:41","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T16:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=120286"},"modified":"2019-05-24T17:30:29","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T16:30:29","slug":"chelsea-vs-arsenal-wenger-blasts-uefa-over-europa-league-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=120286","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea vs Arsenal: Wenger blasts UEFA over Europa League final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Wenger-reveals-next-club-Thierry-Henry-will-manage.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Arsene Wenger has said that the Europa League final being played in Baku, is \u201ca nightmare\u201d for Arsenal and Chelsea fans.<\/p>\n<p>Current Gunners boss, Unai Emery, will be without midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan, who will not be travelling due to safety concerns given the political tensions between his native Armenia and Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n<p>Many supporters are also set to miss the trip too, given the difficulties in travelling to Baku.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a little bit of a nightmare [for the fans].<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe teams have no problem. They live in ideal conditions \u2013 they have their private jet, nice business seats. But it\u2019s the fans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Mkhitaryan\u2019s situation] is something that should not happen in football.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel it\u2019s not normal that in 2019 \u2013 inside Europe, with very sophisticated democracies \u2013 that you cannot play for political reasons,\u201d Wenger told BBC Sport.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsene Wenger has said that the Europa League final being played in Baku, is \u201ca nightmare\u201d for Arsenal and Chelsea fans. Current Gunners boss, Unai Emery, will be without midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan, who will not be travelling due to safety concerns given the political tensions between his native Armenia and Azerbaijan. Many supporters are also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":109507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[4427,1397],"class_list":["post-120286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-arsenal","tag-chelsea"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/109507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}