Morning all. The fixture to dread, a stadium to fear but during these times of Coronavirus, the atmosphere at Anfield will very different than ever before for Arsenal tonight. No crowd to sway the officials, no twelfth man to get behind the home team. Liverpool’s opening fixture was at Anfield. They won it but not […]
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Morning all. Yesterday’s fixtures proved once again that the rules in the game are confusing. When is handball in the penalty area deemed to be against the rules and therefore a penalty? What about leading up to a penalty when a player has committed a handball offence and when does a players arm begin and […]
Morning all. The newspapers are in overdrive, even Sky Sports are joining in. Aouar is heading to Arsenal. According to Telefoot that is, a French television broadcasting programme which I guess France’s equivalent of Sky or BT Sport. Talks got underway last Tuesday they say but the Lyon chief reckons we as a club don’t have […]
Morning all. I can understand why Mesut Ozil didn’t feature in Mikel Arteta’s plans last night because an away fixture in itself is tough but against Leicester City, well, as I said yesterday, Arsenal haven’t won at the King Power Stadium for a few years. There wasn’t room for a player who wasn’t ready or […]
Morning all. Kieran Tierney remains unavailable for tonight’s fixture after suffering an injury just before the West Ham game kicked off. I doubt he’d have featured anyway as Mikel Arteta is likely to ring the changes for this Carabao Cup fixture against Leicester City. According to the official website, our Scotsman should be back training […]
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DU4yzDsTJ2c Morning all. Arsenal confirmed the signing of Alex Runarsson yesterday. The 25 year old Iceland international who looks right at home in short trousers. He reminds me of Alex Manninger in appearance. Mikel Arteta and Edu must have seen something in him to bring him to the club although I hope it’s more […]
Morning all. There’s nothing like a drab performance to get us all talking. Or moaning. Ha. Reality is that when we play poorly, or just not as well as the week before or as good as we know this group of players can play, it’d be wrong to say it’s great and carry on. We […]
Morning all. The similarities between the match against West Ham back in March and last night’s fixture were clear. West Ham can feel hard done by after giving Arsenal a really tough time. Our opener might have been given offside on another day, VAR could so easily have awarded West Ham a penalty after the […]
Morning all. Saturday match day with an 8pm kick off. That’s weird. Monday to Friday yes, but not a Saturday night. But hey, we knew this season was going to be strange because of the shortened time frame in which the same amount of fixtures have to squeezed in. International breaks won’t help either, nor […]
Morning all. I’m sure there’s good news around this morning but for some reason, I can’t think what it is. Perhaps it’s that Gabriel Martinelli has returned from seeing his family in Brazil. He’s back at Arsenal where he’ll go through a daily strengthening and recovery programme with our rehab and medical teams. He’s not expected […]
Morning all. Sky Sports report that Arsenal in talks with Torino over the sale of midfielder Lucas Torreira. The deal under discussion would see Torreira join on loan ahead of making it permanent next summer. The total fee is over £22m with Torino paying in two equal instalments. Fiorentina are also interested. Arsenal are open to […]
Morning all. Football is entertaining if nothing else and not always for the right reasons. Certainly not in France as PSG lost again, this time to Marseille in a game which saw 14 yellow cards, 5 red cards and a mass brawl once the final whistle blew. Neymar was one of the PSG players given his […]