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MIDFIELDER Alan Hudson appealed to Stoke to take him back after struggling to settle in at Arsenal.

“They want me to change my style, I can’t see why they bought me,” he said, after his £200,000 move.

Also QPR’s Stan Bowles was recovering from a fractured ankle – and the news Gunners star Malcolm MacDonald was holding him to their goalscoring bet for the season.