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PHOTO: Arsenal supporter delivers message to Alexander Hleb from the afterlife

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An Arsenal supporter has forever expressed his gloomy opinion of the club's former midfielder Alexander Hleb in the form of a commemorative brick outside the North London side's Emirates Stadium.

Here's the thing: the Gunners fan is dead.

(photo courtesy: The Telegraph)

Longtime Arsenal supporter Geof Cohen may be dead, but his legacy lives on, as the man's judgment of the Belorussian midfielder who plied his trade at Arsenal from 2005 to 2008 is etched into brick for eternity.

Geof's son, Howard, who had the memorial brick installed on the stadium grounds, paid tribute to his late father in a way fitting of a die-hard Gunner.

Howard wrote on Twitter, "My dad was a right laugh, and he would have been very amused by the fact the funny plaque I got in his memory ..."

Hleb left Arsenal for a transfer to Barcelona that caught many off-guard, where he was subsequently loaned in 2009 following only 19 appearances with the Catalan side.

The 34-year-old, who has been capped 69 times for Belarus, has since played for some of football's biggest clubs, namely Krylia Sovetov Samara, BATE Borisov, Konyaspor, and Genclerbirligi.

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