Morning all. In the words of Jeorge Bird over at Arsenal Youth, “were it not for the exploits of Arsenal goalkeeper Arthur Okonkwo, who made some fantastic saves in the second half”, the Arsenal under 23’s would have been beaten by a much greater score line than the 2-0 defeat they suffered. So who is […]
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Morning all. When a striker misses what for him is a sitter, it’s human nature to think someone else would have taken the chance to open the scoring. If Eddie missed one, Pepe would have scored it, had Pepe missed a sitter, Lacazette would have buried it and if Lacazette missed his, of course, Aubameyang […]
Morning all. What do I know about Benfica? Nothing other than they’re a Portuguese Premier League club sat 4th place in the table. They came runners up to Rangers in their Europa League group having won three and drawn three of their fixtures. The last time the two clubs met was donkeys years ago and […]
Morning all. We all know that ‘new deal’ and ‘Arsenal signing’ headlines which fill the sports pages and NewNow need to be taken with a large pinch of salt but as the saying goes, sometimes there’s no smoke without a fire. Football London ran a story the other day which quoted Martin Ødegaard as telling […]
Morning all. A game started in daylight yet ended in darkness and with Arsenal fans near and far, happy. After a weird opening five minutes or so of little but sideways and backwards passing, Arsenal found their stride. Saka, ESR and debutant Ødegaard were playing well. Less than fifteen minutes gone in the game and […]
Morning all. I tuned in to the City game yesterday afternoon. What a bore fest it was. Football misses the fans in a massive way. I don’t mean the money although we know that’s causing different problems for most clubs but stadiums need to be full to creative an atmosphere. Fans, thousands of them […]
Morning all. The Premier League, FA, EFL, WSL, Women’s Championship, PFA, LMA, PGMOL and Kick It Out have all co-signed the letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Facebook founder, chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerburg, asking them “for reasons of basic human decency” to use the power of their systems to end the abuse. – […]
Morning all. Football London reckon this might be our kit for next season. Real or not I don’t know but I like it. A lot. Patrick Bamford has been quoted as telling Leeds United’s official channel: ‘Do you know what? He (Alioski) said in the changing room, I can’t wait for Sunday. I was like “why?”. […]
Morning all. Back in 2004, Arsene Wenger and his Arsenal team had just beaten Toots 5-4. A scoreline that little man from Portugal called a disgrace. A ‘hockey score’ he said, ‘not football.’ Not that anyone Arsenal related would have given a toss what his views were back then, or now for that matter but […]
Morning all. A short read this morning. I know, it’s usually a short read but why say/write 1000 words when just a few will do? A decision has been made regarding our Europa League fixtures against Benfica and both ties will be played at a neutral ground as Portugal is on the UK red list […]
Morning all. William Saliba: It is clear that so much has changed in the last year. When I saw that the coach changed, a lot changed for me too. In this year there has been a lot of change. He judged me on two-and-a-half matches. I would have liked for him to play me more. But […]
Reiss Nelson v Chelsea U23s pic.twitter.com/mYf97uc3XS — Hale End (@HaleEndStuff) February 5, 2021 Morning all. Nice free kick eh? Better than most we see the first team players execute. Have we actually scored from a free kick in the League other than the ones from Lacazette and Xhaka? Jamie Redknapp: What is happening to […]