Morning all. What a difference a change of manager can make. From not really focusing on the defence for the past few years, it appears that most of this summers signings are all about defensive players. We’ve already signed a keeper and a right-back and now Sokratis Papastathopoulos is on the verge of becoming our […]

Early exchanges in the 2018 World Cup have given Arsenal fans their first chance to run the rule over new signing Stephan Lichtsteiner and the 34-year-old looked typically composed as his Swiss side held Brazil to a 1-1 draw in Rostov-on-Don. Elsewhere, Danny Welbeck was an unused substitute as England snatched a late win over […]

Morning all. It seems Unai Emery has now sorted his backroom team out. Jens Lehmann has departed but Steve Bould remains in the same role he’s been in for a number of years. Big news this I think because not only does he keep an Arsenal man in, but Bould is the guy many of […]

Morning all. Well that was a big fat ‘welcome to the World Cup’ wasn’t it? Spain and Portugal dished up what I thought was a great game of football. For a while it was Costa v Ronaldo as the two players dominated the scoreboard at 2-2 but by the end of the match it was […]