How Cesc Fàbregas left his backstory behind and found a home at Chelsea | Barney Ronay

On Sunday Cesc Fàbregas comes up against his former club Arsenal and the player that made the Gunners decide they did not want him back, Mesut Özil

Arsenal is in my heart. Id love to go back one day

Fan view: it will sting to see Fàbregas in a Chelsea shirt

Home has always been a portable concept in football but it is still hard to recall a more complex collision of domestic loyalties than Cesc Fàbregass first Premier League reunion with Arsenal at Stamford Bridge on Sunday afternoon.

It is in its own way a very modern kind of tongue twister. Here is a footballer playing a home match against the home-from-home club he left for his home club back home three years ago. But who has still rarely looked as at home anywhere as he has in the last six weeks in Chelsea blue. Confused? You should be. It is confusing.

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