by rico | Wednesday, November 20, 2024 | Daily Bits and Bobs
Morning all. Probably not the finest moment in Martin Keown’s Arsenal career but as a fan, I absolutely loved it. That’s passion. I can remember the game as if was yesterday. Van Nistelrooy had got Patrick Vieira sent off and then when the ghastly Dutchman had a...
by rico | Monday, November 18, 2024 | Daily Bits and Bobs
Morning all. The second Monday of an international break is always better than the first. William Saliba’s duty is done after helping France defeat Italy 3-1 last night. I’d normally be writing about Riccardo Calafiori and Jorginho too but neither have been away...
by rico | Saturday, November 16, 2024 | Daily Bits and Bobs
Morning all. Two things are rolling on through this international break, the berating of David Coote and the criticism of footballers who have withdrawn from playing for England. Harry Kane started off the latter by suggesting players are choosing club over country....
by rico | Tuesday, November 12, 2024 | Daily Bits and Bobs
Afternoon all. The week kicked off with good news, the best of which was that neither Bukayo Saka or Declan Rice are gone off on international duty with England and Martin Odegaard has withdrawn from the Norway squad too meaning all three will have the next two weeks...
by rico | Monday, November 11, 2024 | Daily Bits and Bobs
Morning all. We might as well forget the idea of winning the Premier League any time soon. Not because we’re not capable of doing so, but because the playing field is not level. The officials are making sure of that. On another day, with another referee, Caicedo...
by rico | Sunday, November 10, 2024 | Daily Bits and Bobs
Morning all. This week, Declan Rice sat down with Freddie Ljungberg to talk all about the desire to win trophies, Sunday’s game against Chelsea and more – the whole chat can be read on Arsenal.com. Freddie: When I arrived at Arsenal, Pat Rice was the...
by rico | Saturday, November 9, 2024 | Daily Bits and Bobs
Morning all. I read something yesterday which FourFourTwo translated from Football Merco which suggests Arsenal are considering Per Mertesacker and Tomas Rosicky as potential replacements for the already departed Edu. We all know what the Big German has been up to...
by rico | Thursday, November 7, 2024 | Daily Bits and Bobs
Morning all. The picture above tells the Arsenal story that’s for sure. Inter Milan bossed the opening part of the game, hitting the woodwork and coming close to opening the scoreline on a couple of other occasions. They went ahead courtesy of a penalty...
by rico | Wednesday, November 6, 2024 | Daily Bits and Bobs
Morning all. What a night in the Champions League. Man City were thrashed 4-1 by Sporting Lisbon in what was Man Utd’s soon to be manager’s last home fixture in charge of Sporting. Viktor Gyokeres scored a hat-trick, two of which were from the penalty spot. The media...
by rico | Tuesday, November 5, 2024 | Daily Bits and Bobs
Morning all. Having been tenuously linked with a move to Nottingham Forest a number of months ago, a similar story resurfaced yesterday afternoon only this time, it’s true. Late afternoon, early evening yesterday, Arsenal Football Club announced Edu had...
by rico | Sunday, November 3, 2024 | Daily Bits and Bobs
Morning all. Arsenal lost for a second time this season against a Newcastle side who scored once from a brilliant cross and header to match. Gabriel will be feeling disappointed to have let Isak get the better of him I’m sure but sometimes one just has to admire a...
by rico | Saturday, November 2, 2024 | Daily Bits and Bobs
Morning all. When the rich and famous rolled into Newcastle Utd in October 2021, great things were expected from the northern club. At least that’s what the so called footballing experts told us. Great wealth, one of Englands best coaches in Eddie Howe, yes, Man...
