If Every Arsenal Player Was A Thanksgiving Dinner Item

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Stuffing – Mesut Ozil

How often do people forget to think of the stuffing at Thanksgiving dinner? I mean, when you have all these dominant pieces of food on your plate, it is often hard to notice the stuffing that is sprinkled all about the plate, wherever you had room to fit another piece of food. But you would be absolutely miserable if you did not have that stuffing on your plate.

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Without Mesut Ozil, Arsenal would be a much lesser meal. Mesut Ozil fills all the gaps. He finds space and he turns that space into brilliance. And dare I say that stuffing is the ultimate assisting food? Combine it with literally anything and it tastes fantastic. Except maybe cake.

However, it is not until you taste stuffing on its own that you realize how gosh darn tasty it really is. That stuff(ing) is good. And yet it still manages to never really feature. It does its work in the shadows of the turkey, the ham, the taters. But stuffing is always there. Waiting and watching for the perfect opportunity to remind you just how great it is. Arsenal has raised everyone’s stuffing awareness with how much Mesut Ozil is featuring.

And if you dare doubt stuffing? When you are looking at your plate and you are starting to get full and you think ‘I think I’ll throw the stuffing away,’ you feel that subconscious urge to keep eating. And you never regret it. Not the stuffing that is. You can certainly have too much of the other foods.

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