Morning all. Arsenal take on Sporting Lisbon tonight in the Champions League. Portuguese clubs are invariably difficult to play against as they often use any and every trick in the book to stop their opponents from finding any kind of rhythm. At the beginning of this month, Sporting battered Man City in Portugal but […]
Morning all. I thought Mikel Arteta was brave yesterday. Very brave. His starting 11 was so very different to what I expected to see that’s for sure. No Thomas Partey, Declan Rice, Kai Havertz or Gabriel Martinelli although all four were on the bench. Instead, in came Jorginho, Gabriel Jesus and Leandro Trossard, the latter […]
Morning all. 250 Premier League fixtures up for Mikel Arteta today which is amazing really in this day and age when managers come and go at the first sign of trouble. Mikel Arteta has been through a lot since taking over from Unai Emery nearly five years ago, the biggest challenge being overhauling the […]
Morning all. Probably not the finest moment in Martin Keown’s Arsenal career but as a fan, I absolutely loved it. That’s passion. I can remember the game as if was yesterday. Van Nistelrooy had got Patrick Vieira sent off and then when the ghastly Dutchman had a chance to win the game from the penalty […]
Morning all. The second Monday of an international break is always better than the first. William Saliba’s duty is done after helping France defeat Italy 3-1 last night. I’d normally be writing about Riccardo Calafiori and Jorginho too but neither have been away during this break. Belgium played last night and lost 1-0 to Israel […]
Morning all. Two things are rolling on through this international break, the berating of David Coote and the criticism of footballers who have withdrawn from playing for England. Harry Kane started off the latter by suggesting players are choosing club over country. Even if he’s right, so what? It’s been going on for years and […]
Afternoon all. The week kicked off with good news, the best of which was that neither Bukayo Saka or Declan Rice are gone off on international duty with England and Martin Odegaard has withdrawn from the Norway squad too meaning all three will have the next two weeks of being pampered and prepared for the […]
Morning all. We might as well forget the idea of winning the Premier League any time soon. Not because we’re not capable of doing so, but because the playing field is not level. The officials are making sure of that. On another day, with another referee, Caicedo would have been off the pitch long before […]
Morning all. This week, Declan Rice sat down with Freddie Ljungberg to talk all about the desire to win trophies, Sunday’s game against Chelsea and more – the whole chat can be read on Arsenal.com. Freddie: When I arrived at Arsenal, Pat Rice was the assistant manager. He said to me ‘when you come to […]
Morning all. I read something yesterday which FourFourTwo translated from Football Merco which suggests Arsenal are considering Per Mertesacker and Tomas Rosicky as potential replacements for the already departed Edu. We all know what the Big German has been up to since hanging up his football boots but Tomas Rosicky, well, I didn’t know he’s […]
Morning all. The picture above tells the Arsenal story that’s for sure. Inter Milan bossed the opening part of the game, hitting the woodwork and coming close to opening the scoreline on a couple of other occasions. They went ahead courtesy of a penalty after Mikel Merino was penalised when the ball hit […]
Morning all. What a night in the Champions League. Man City were thrashed 4-1 by Sporting Lisbon in what was Man Utd’s soon to be manager’s last home fixture in charge of Sporting. Viktor Gyokeres scored a hat-trick, two of which were from the penalty spot. The media are criticising Brighton FC for letting him […]