Morning all. Firstly, Luton’s Tom Lockyer collapsed during their game with Bournemouth yesterday. He was stretched off, taken to hospital and later in the day he was confirmed to have suffered a cardiac arrest. The game was postponed, rightly so I hasten to add but thank goodness, the player is ok. I wish him well […]
Category Archives: Daily Bits and Bobs
Morning all. The FA and PL must have been spitting feathers when the independent Regulatory Commission found the charge against Mikel Arteta for an alleged breach of FA Rules following the Newcastle game to be unproven. I read though some of the report, longwinded as it was, and basically, Mikel Arteta was deemed to have […]
Morning all. Mikel Arteta made eight changes to the team which played at the weekend. William Saliba, Gabriel and Kai Havertz started which is a shame but understandable as putting two inexperienced players in front of Aaron Ramsdale could have done them more harm than good. PSV are no mugs in football and they don’t […]
Morning all. Turkish football has hit rock bottom. Last night, Ankaragucu’s club president Faruk Koca punched referee Halil Umut Meler following his side’s 1-1 draw with Rizespor in Turkish Super Lig. Koca is set to be arrested, as are any others involved in the aftermath and domestic football in the country has been suspended indefinitely. […]
Morning all. After all the hype about Aston Villa, I thought we totally outplayed them yesterday. They did one thing better than us and that was to take one opportunity to score. For the rest of the match they barely troubled David Raya although there was one other strike from Ollie Watkins which Raya stopped […]
Morning all. Mikel Arteta will be sat in the directors box for tonight’s match after he took his celebrations at Luton a step too far. Literally. As he said in his press conference, Albert Stuivenberg, Nicolas Jover and Carlos Cuesta will be working together in his place. Stuivenberg has stood in for Arteta before when […]
Morning all. Aston Villa battered Man City on Wednesday night in all bar the scoreline. The home team notched up a massive 22 shots on goal compared to Man City’s 2. Admittedly, only 7 of Villa’s 22 were in target but even so, that’s pretty impressive against the club tipped to win another League title. […]
Morning all. Just a short post today after reading an interesting article in The Athletic. The Ramsdale v Raya debate is going to go on and on and on until either Raya returns Brentford of if he does join Arsenal on a permanent deal, one of the two leave. All the time either or both […]
Morning all. What a game of football that was, it had everything. Luton were tough, physically tough and the referee wasn’t in any hurry to stamp any nastiness out. Arsenal were denied a certain penalty when Gabriel had his shirt almost tugged off his back although I didn’t think the second one was anything other […]
Morning all. Man City dropped two points against Totts on Sunday, a result which was perfect for Arsenal. Liverpool scraped to victory very late in their game but as I’ve always said, it doesn’t matter what time a team scores when it wins. Villa dropped two points too so two out of three currently in […]
Morning all. Haven’t seen many highlights as yet but a 2-1 win against Wolves had to good if not a bit nervy towards the end I suspect. Thirteen minutes in and we were 2-0. Another rout coming perhaps but It didn’t come of course with Wolves scoring the only other goal in the game. Our […]
Morning all. Roughly six months ago, Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal ended the season with a 5-0 thrashing of Wolves. It was Granit Xhaka’s final game for the club and boy did he sign off in style. The Premier League trophy had already been handed over to Man City by then of course but the players didn’t […]