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Welbz - My first memories of Gibbo

They’ve formed one of the closest friendships in our first-team squad, but Kieran Gibbs and Danny Welbeck didn’t always get on so well.

The pair regularly faced each other at youth level, and lined up on opposite flanks in the 2007 FA Youth Cup semi-final.

“It doesn’t feel like 10 years at all,” Welbeck told Arsenal Player. “I was speaking to Gibbo and Ox about it not long ago at all, talking about Gibbo being a flying left winger. I hated coming up against him. It was mad.

“I knew everything about their team, they knew everything about us.