'Free Alexis Sanchez' march a damp squib as only five Chilean fans turn up to demand Arsenal star leaves

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James Benge2 March 2017

A protest by Chilean football fans designed to extricate Alexis Sanchez from Arsenal turned into something of a non-event… with only five people attending the ‘march’.

A Facebook event titled ‘The National March for Alexis Sanchez to leave Arsenal’ was set up after the Gunners 5-1 humiliation at Bayern Munich in the Champions League round of 16 last month.

The page had seen 14,000 users sign up to attend the march but it appeared that commitments made on the internet were easily repented when the turnout ended up in single figures, buoyed in part by several Chilean broadcasters who had gone to the Plaza Baquedano in Santiago.

Users on the page laughed off the low turnout, insisting the event was only ever intended to be a joke.One individual has already set up a second event: ‘The March to get more people to the March for Alexis Sanchez to leave Arsenal’.

Organisers of the event had written a damning indictment of Sanchez’s team-mates, claiming that he had been left alone by Arsenal players who lacked his effort.

“We, as Chileans, are tired of watching one of our biggest stars play on his own,’ the page’s bio read.

“We don’t want him to play at Real Madrid, nor go back to Barcelona, we don’t give a f*** where he plays, we just want him to fight along with other 10 players to get the results.

“He doesn’t deserve to be alone.”

Sanchez’s future at Arsenal remains shrouded in doubt, with the Chilean no closer to committing to a new contract with his current deal due to expire at the end of next season.

Both he and Mesut Ozil are demanding terms on a par with the Premier League’s top earners but Arsenal are yet to commit to wages in excess of £250,000-a-week.

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