Morning all.
I didn’t know this about Arsenal.
- We became the UK’s first football club to install large-scale battery energy storage in 2018. The battery storage system can power Emirates Stadium for an entire match, or the equivalent of 2,700 homes for two hours .
- Since 1999, more than 29,000 trees have been planted at our training centre in London Colney to create the Colney Wood
- We have installed a water recycling system at our training centre to reuse water that comes from the pitch – in the last year, we have recycled more than 4.5 million litres of water.
- Following the launch of the partnership with Octopus Energy in 2016, we were the first Premier League club to switch to 100 per cent green electricity.
- In partnership with Camden Town Brewery, we were the first Premier League club to trial the reusable cup scheme during the 2018/19 season. This scheme became fully integrated at the start of the 2019/20 season, saving the use of approximately 20,000 single use plastic cups per game when Emirates Stadium is full.
- In October this year, we launched a partnership with global aluminium packaging company Ball Corporation designed to help the club and our millions of fans around the world reduce their impact on the environment.
- Our training centre is now 95 per cent single use plastic bottle-free
- We have introduced more water dispensers across all sites – saving 150,000 single-use plastic water bottles per year
- We have reduced energy by installing automated LED lighting at all club sites .
I know the above changes won’t improve our football but they will help improve the planet and we fans should be proud about that.
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A couple of odd things have taken place during the first week of international football. The first being Kieran Tierney and his Scotland teammates securing a place in a big tournament for the first time in a hundred years. Ok, not quite that many but it’s been a long time. Secondly, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and his Gabon teammates were stranded at the airport for six hours according to a report in The Daily Mail. Not what all that was about but all the players had their passports taken from them and had to sleep on the floor. Aubameyang has scored for his country within the last week and from open play so I hope he can doing the same for his club. Both Bukayo Saka and Ainsley Maitland-Niles have played for England although the latter was an unused sub in last night’s defeat to Belgium and Saka came on from the bench to replace Chilwell. England have one more fixture on Wednesday against Iceland and with my Arsenal hat on, I hope neither play.
You have to feel sorry for Liverpool though, or not, not really, as their players are dropping like flies this season. VvD out for much of the season and now Joe Gomez and Trent Alexander-Arnold have both suffered injuries too. On top of that, Mo Salah has tested positive for Covid so how long he’s out remains to be seen. Thankfully, Mo Elneny’s test proved negative.
Anyway, I think all our players who are away have just the one fixture left so fingers crossed we suffer no injuries.
See you in the comments guys.
Interesting to see so many Premier League based players are getting injured, which was what I said would happen when the smaller PL clubs voted down the 5 subs retention and instead went for the retrograde 3 subs – small minds indeed.
Arsenal have been lucky so far but I worry about Saka, I think the 5 subs will soon return because even the smaller clubs are suffering despite not being in europe or having many international players.
I did read that Elon Musk, odd guy but very wealthy and smart, recently had 4 Covid tests in one day!
2 came back positive and 2 came back negative…
Everything is very weird…
Electrifying, Kev. Electrifying😊
Injuries? We’ve had a few and there will be far more to come. What’s wrong with five subs? All clubs have 25 men squads, the managers can choose how many changes to make, up to 5 rather than 3. What’s the gripe? Look at the Toon earlier this season and last they had injury after injury, 5 in one game I think, mostly serious, Bruce complained bitterly and rightly so, their shortage was a bit of an investment issue as well. None the less he got on with it and even with a much weakened team they won a few and lost some. It’s all in the game.
If the issue is that too many players are being maimed by deliberately bad tackles then we could lay the blame at the feet of the men in black. If, as in the case of Bellerin and countless others they suffer serious injury from a non contact turn, fall or jar, perhaps the training schemes and also surfaces have to be reconsidered. However, once a sprain or strain has occurred the affected join t will never be the same again. Unlike a break stretched ligaments etc never really return to their original tautness and thus there remains a residual weakness just waiting to be ‘stretched’ again.
I have no idea how these type of injuries can be avoided except by spending fewer minutes on the pitch, micro managing those players who have ‘known’ weaknesses. 5 subs may protect the more fragile players and reduce the waiting time outside the physios’ doors.
Morning all.
Excellent news about the club’s environmental friendliness. I’m impressed. They’ll be only serving beef free meals next, in order to keep the methane levels down and also they could turn to soya milk instead of cows. Smelly creatures cows!
I’m off to warm up yesterday’s lamb shank, for lunch today. The woolly ones don’t emit so much ‘hot wind’ so they’re ok just now😌
Nothing wrong with a good country smell . it’s the traditional country way of doing things good for the animals and the soil . It’s the heavily intensive farming that I object to . Not just animals but the forcing of fruit and vegetables too.
Still I am impressed with the tree planting , it’s something that all local councils could do and will have a much greater long term effect than blocking roads and forcing people to ride bikes or walk .
Still that’s politics over for the day at least until Boris comes out of hiding.
The five subs was seen as an advantage to clubs that had a bench of internationals but the rest are now finding out that their players are getting the same injuries and are under the same ludicrous pressure of a congested fixture programme . I suppose they felt that as their players were not going off for internationals and Europe that they would get the chance to rest but they are still suffering from games being compressed into less time as the leagues come to a halt whilst the internartionals are being played.
Playing 3 games in 8 days will take it’s toll and like Covid , in those circumstances injuries don’t care who you are , everyone is open to them.
I posted some time ago that they should have kept the 5 subs: there was no pre-season, the game overload is huge (as it is possible to have countries that have 3 games in this phase (1 friendly + 2)) and in England the overload of Christmas / New Year ….
It will be impossible not to have injuries and suspensions. The question is to see if we can always get 11 in physical form to play.
Clubs who voted against the subs were naive to say the least. Nearly as stupid as those who thought PPV was a good idea at £14.95 a match.
Wonderful to read how green our club is. All that energy being created, just a pity there’s no way to use it to power up some of our higher paid players. 😉
Here’s a thought, it’s a five minute walk from my house to the pub: but a twenty-five minute walk home, the difference is staggering!
Very good Cicero..
Very good Wavy…. 🙂
And then I thought you was bursting into song!
‘Injuries? We’ve had a few’ and then again, too few to mention.
I did it my way…
Fortunately, unlike me, you decided to write something sensible instead. 😄
I hope for once that injuries swerve us. We’ve had far more than our fair share over the years.
I fear that Saka, who has already played twice for England in this interlull will be selected for the Iceland game as Chilwell has left the squad due to injury. By playing him for the third game Southgate is putting him at risk of injury.
As England are already out of the tournament, why is this totally meaningless game being played at all?
16 premier league players test positive for coronavirus . Nothing like sending them all over for internationals
Elneny tested positive…
How many positive tested players were involved in the EPL before the international break and how many will we have when the break ends?
Seems clear that international football is a super spreader….
Morning all.
Kev, heaven forbid FIFA aren’t filling their coffers……
I see reports that Barcelona are interested in signing Mustafi, stranger things have happened I suppose… not many though.
Sums up the mess Barcelona are in Limey.
Disappointed for Elneny.
Morning all.
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