How are you all feeling today? Have you got that empty feeling in the pit of your stomach, you know the one you get when you can see a whole season’s work seemingly slipping through our fingers? It wouldn’t surprise me if that’s how you feel and I wouldn’t blame you either because that’s […]

How on earth do you recover from losing disastrously at home to Bournemouth in the Premier League whilst also handing to your bete noir the advantage psychologically they crave? Well for a start you get to your second successive Champions League Semi-Final, that’s what you do and meanwhile you double down on repairing your confidence. […]

Bournemouth arrived at the Emirates well rested from a 22 day siesta, having last played in a match on the 20th March. In fact their manager Andoni Iraola was actually more concerned that his players may well have lost their competitive edge during those 22 days, he needn’t have worried. Bournemouth were also the only […]

  Morning all. Mikel Arteta was able to bring a few of his main men back into the starting XI yesterday evening and not least the considerable influences of Declan Rice and Gabriel, the latter showing no signs of his concerning knee issue. A fiery atmosphere met both teams as they entered the arena, the […]