Arsenal can benefit from Nuri Sahin's craving to make up for lost time | David Hytner

When Nuri Sahin went nose to nose with Lukas Podolski in the Bundesliga, he could not have imagined that the pair would become team-mates at Arsenal two summers laterIt was one of those spats that, with the benefit of cool reflection, seem almost childish, but the amusing pay-off now looms.When Nuri Sahin went nose-to-nose with Lukas Podolski during a high-profile Bundesliga game, he could not have imagined that the pair would become team-mates at Arsenal two summers later.The footage of Sahin v Podolski from 15 October 2010 is YouTube gold. The verbals had started between them on international duty the previous week, when Podolski's Germany ...