Morning all. Unsurprisingly, the pre-match talk was about Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang who was missing from the squad. I assumed he’d picked up an injury in training but no, he was absent through punishment. Mikel Arteta said the striker was dropped because of a “disciplinary breach”. I think we have been very consistent, that we have certain non-negotiables […]

Morning all. Southampton come to The Emirates today with Mikel Arteta and his Arsenal players in dire need of a strong performance coupled with a win. The south coast club, like both Everton and Man Utd, have been struggling to find any consistency this season. 16 points from 17 fixtures is not good by a […]

Morning all. Do you get the feeling there’s a battle going on within Arsenal? Mikel Arteta v the players, or at least some of them? A minority of them perhaps but as we’ve all seen and not only at Arsenal, once a manager loses the support of his players, there’s usually no way back for […]

Morning all. The FA Cup draw had kind of passed me by but we’ve been drawn against Nottingham Forest, the club which knocked us out of the competition back in 2018. The tie will take place over the weekend of the 7th-9th of January 2022. Having seen the way things are going in the League, […]