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The Gunners looked every inch a team without a recognised main forward as they laboured and spluttered to break down Leicester City's game but limited resistance at King Power Stadium.

Its economy is already spluttering - last year it shrunk by 0.2%.

But that motor is spluttering, to put it mildly.

He flung himself down on the bank, flopped over on his back, legs and arms outstretched, and spluttered some disconnected words.

Coughing and spluttering his way through a parliamentary health committee meeting, a clearly irritated Dr Svoboda questioned why he had to be there in the first place.