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Oh My Cod: Just How Shocking Was Fleetwood’s Town League Cup Defeat of Arsenal?

How rare is it for a League Two side to beat top-flight opposition in the League Cup? We examine the history behind Fleetwood Town’s shock win over Arsenal. In one of the biggest shocks in EFL Cup history, League Two side Fleetwood Town knocked reigning Premier League champions Arsenal out of the competition on Tuesday.

— The Analyst (Opta), publisher's words · Read the original ↗

31 outlets11 languages14 countriesUpdated

Who broke it

Mundo Deportivo — Fútbol

ES · ES

Followed by

30

outlets in 11 languages over 17 h 9 min.

Our read

Corroborated (10)

10 of 14 outlets each added at least one detail no earlier report had; the other 4 repeat it. That is independence, not agreement: two of them can still contradict each other.

Judged on the 14 outlets in our latest edition; the timeline keeps all 31 we have seen.

Coverage timeline

31 outlets · first-seen order
  1. +0 min

    Mundo Deportivo — FútbolES · ESBroke it

    Un dron perturba el partido del Arsenal

  2. +6 min
  3. +1 h 4 min
  4. +1 h 15 min
  5. +1 h 15 min
  6. +1 h 16 min
  7. +1 h 17 min
  8. +1 h 17 min
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  10. +1 h 20 min
  11. +1 h 24 min
  12. +1 h 29 min
  13. +1 h 30 min
  14. +1 h 31 min
  15. +1 h 31 min

    ASES · ESOwn reporting

    Bochorno histórico del Arsenal

  16. +1 h 32 min
  17. +1 h 44 min
  18. +2 h 15 min
  19. +3 h 4 min
  20. +9 h 12 min
  21. +9 h 13 min
  22. +9 h 59 min
  23. +10 h 4 min
  24. +10 h 31 min
  25. +11 h 34 min
  26. +12 h 3 min
  27. +13 h 31 min
  28. +15 h 5 min

    TRT Spor — FutbolTR · TRRepeats

    4. lig ekibinden Arsenal’e tarihi şok

  29. +16 h 24 min
  30. +16 h 30 min
  31. +17 h 9 min

First seen is our own clock across 245+ feeds; it is not a guarantee of who published first. Each time is the earlier of the publisher's own timestamp and our first sighting. Headlines and summaries are the publishers' own words, linked to the original. How we work out who broke it.