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 […]
Morning all. I didn’t watch any football last night but have read the headlines this morning and they didn’t make very good reading. Forget the results, which incidentally were good for English clubs but the goings on at Aston Villa sound more like something out of a crime drama or even a horror film. Legia […]
Morning all. Feeling happy on this cold autumn morning? Me too. 45 minutes of absolute Arsenal domination blew Lens away last night. As a number of Lens players tried to kick lumps out of Bukayo Saka, Arsenal hit them where it hurts. 5-0 at half-time and it was game over after what was possibly the […]
Morning all. No Premier League title for Arsenal this season according to ex player and fan favourite Freddie Ljungberg who was a guest on Sky Sports Monday night football. I don’t think they actually are that much better (than last season. Because actually we’re talking about a team going from the third-best defence to the […]