"For Emmanuel Frimpong, the parting of the ways was – typically – swift and explosive. Having been left out of Arsenal's squad for a League Cup game against Chelsea in October 2013, Frimpong tweeted: ""Sometimes I wish I was white and English."" Arsene Wenger was infuriated at the insinuation of racism, and three months later Frimpong was sold to Barnsley. It brought to an end a 13-year association with Arsenal that yielded just 16 first-team appearances but spawned innumerable quotes, memes and GIFs. For one of the Premier League's first 'social-media footballers', it was appropriate a tweet hastened the end. He describes it as ""my only regret in football"". Four years on, the one-time Arsenal cult hero insists he has mellowed, and with his former team facing CSKA Moscow in the Europa League on Thursday, he offers a surprising reference point for advice on Russian football. Frimpong, now 26, spent three years in the Russian league after leaving Arsenal – first with Ufa and then at Arsenal Tula – and speaks fondly of his time there. Now back home in Ghana with his girlfriend Esther and baby daughter Emmanuella – out of work since January after suffering a hamstring injury while at Cypriot club Ermis Aradippou – Frimpong revealed all about his time at Arsenal in an entertaining interview with Telegraph Sport. Far from the most technically gifted player, Frimpong became the darling of the Emirates crowd when he broke into the first team seven years ago through his endearingly unfiltered personality and always amusing social media presence. Highlights include calling Piers Morgan a ""wasteman"" on Twitter and mocking up a picture of Nicklas Bendtner winning the Ballon d'Or. Frimpong even had his own catchphrase: ""Stay Dench or get Frimponged"". Frimpong made just 16 first-team appearances during his time at Arsenal Credit: PA ""Dench"" – now included in the MacMillan English dictionary and defined as ""extremely attractive, fashionable, impressive"" – was the brainchild of Frimpong's cousin, the rapper Lethal Bizzle. Frimpong helped popularise the term in a series of rap videos, and T-shirts bearing the slogan ""Stay Dench"" sold in their thousands at Arsenal club shops. Years later, a still on-brand Frimpong made his debut for Arsenal Tula with the Cyrillic for 'Dench' on the back of his shirt. But Frimpong was not just an entertainer. Having joined the Arsenal academy at the age of nine, soon after he moved from Ghana to London to be with his mother, he impressed Wenger when asked to train with the first team and was given his debut aged 19 at Newcastle in the first match of the 2011-12 season. ""It was amazing,"" Frimpong says. ""I was so buzzing that I was about to go on the pitch without my shirt on. Then I took someone else's shirt and Pat Rice said: 'No! That's the wrong shirt!'"" Frimpong did enough to start Arsenal's next league game against Liverpool, where for 70 minutes he enlivened the Emirates crowd with his tough-tackling approach, before he spoiled an impressive performance by getting sent off for two daft bookings with the game goalless. Arsenal eventually lost the game 2-0, which prompted stinging criticism from Frimpong's only enemy in football: Samir Nasri. Emmanuel Frimpong 
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