So the plot thickens with Manchester City. Haaland is out, now we find out that Phil Foden had minor surgery for an appendicitis operation. You can be moving pretty fast after an operation like that, but not sure you can be playing elite-level sport right away. Those are two pretty big players to be missing as you head into a disgusting crunch of games. … like I said this week, there will be casualties from this run for City. Points and players. No doubt in my mind. There was also a disgraceful moment in the Spain vs Norway where Rodri scythed into Martin Odegaard with a high challenge. It wa ..read more

Happy Saturday my friends, the football is mostly international this week, so I mostly switch off, but there are a few interesting stories doing the rounds. The big one: Folarin Balogun. The guy is about as American as an English fry-up, but that hasn’t stopped him going on a whistle-stop tour around the states, making appearances at basketball and baseball games. The word on the street is he is going to pledge allegiance to the red, white, and blue of USMNT and become the tip of the spear for the biggest world cup of all time in 2026. Did I call this way before this chatter started? Yes. Why ..read more

Quick lil update for ya’ll. Eddie Nketiah, nursing a bad ankle, had time to climb the stairs to present Kimmy K with an Arsenal shirt. Are you mad, son? You think we don’t know what you were up there doing? That is a mother of 2! What would Kanye say? Then I see Bukayo on the Facetime having a crack at cementing himself in the next TV series? BOYS! Get some focus. Honestly, not good enough. Tomi is out for the season. The poor guy has had surgery. It caps an awful year personally for him. Here’s to wishing him a speedy recovery! It feels like we’ve been waiting on Saliba news for about 987 da ..read more

Arsenal smashed up Crystal Palace to avenge the job death of dearest Patrick Vieira. The legendary Arsenal man’s name echoed around The Ems as Arsenal fans reminded Steve Parish of the horrors he had committed on the Palace manager. The players took note, they dished out a handy pummelling of Crystal Palace in an exceptionally professional afternoon that we exited with no drama. The problem? The real drama was happening off the field. Tomiyasu and Saliba were the casualties of the Europa League outing. Losing two of your right sided players inside 20 minutes is the peak of bad luck and why I ..read more

Arsenal has the opportunity to go 8 points clear in the Premier League knowing that City has secured itself in two cups this week. They have 17 games left. We have 11. Today is basically our League Cup final. It’s massive. There’s an expectation we’ll roll Palace, but the truth is it’ll be very hard out there. Vieira shouldn’t have been sacked. Yes, Palace have had a rough run. But they’ve not conceded more than one goal in their last 10 games and they have played some teams with serious, serious equipment. I also don’t think he’d lost the dressing room. I’m hearing rumblings that the dressin ..read more

How are we all feeling today? Nervous? Adrenaline fueled? Can’t wait to get tomorrow over with so we know where we sit with 10 games to go? Same. The most important news we need for tomorrow is the truth behind William Saliba. Arsenal are very tight-lipped on injuries, Arteta uses the mystery to surprise the opposition. There’s no Bill Saliba in training pictures; rumours are there’s a late fitness test for him; that’s good news if true because at the very least: It’s not a serious issue. Though Mikel did try and keep the Eddie bad news secret for as long as possible. Same with the Mo Elneny ..read more

CALM YOURSELF! That is the post. Goodbye. Just kidding, but not on the messaging. Arsenal made 5 changes to their starting 11. The game turned on a fluke screamer. We lost on penalties. I don’t want to hear that Arsenal bottled the game. I don’t want to read people overanalyzing the loss. I don’t want to hear it’s small club mentality to exit a trophy no one cares about. If we’d won, my feelings on it would have been the same: Europa League is for clubs chasing Champions League spots… not titles. Manchester City is in 2 cups and a title race. They have at least 6 midweek games over the next f ..read more

YIKES, there was a lot of news from the pressers and the most important trinkets were associated with fitness. Erik Ten Haag dropped a bit of a salty comment that he might have lost control of due to the snippet not taking into account the full comment. … but this is futbol. We hear what we want, right? ‘When you see all season we have had some setbacks, every time we’ve dealt with it,’ Ten Hag said. ‘It’s about the players who are available and every time there’s a team on the pitch who deals with it. ‘In just one game we had the squad available totally and I was able to pick my team ..read more

Gooooood morning my darlings; how are you doing today? So the story that is lighting up the internet is Ethan Nwaneri is attracting interest from other clubs in the Premier League and he’s going to exit Arsenal. There’s a whole load of bluster online about it, the rumour is his dad might be the one driving the exit, some are saying it’s the player. At the end of the day, I’m not sure it really matters, he hasn’t signed a deal and it would not shock anyone to hear that rich clubs are waving cash money his way. So what to think? Firstly, this is part of the process I’m afraid. Young kids are go ..read more

Make no mistake, Arsenal were absolutely sensational against Fulham. That is a team that has been flying since promotion, they’ve downed big names, they have weapons Arsenal don’t like dealing with. Arsenal nullified them all. Our centre backs were imperious. Our attackers were clinical. Our creators stepped up to the plate. The passing was outrageously fast all game. No one shied away from the moment. Everyone pressed and did their bit of the win. Trossard really was the star, he bagged three assists and made a real statement about how you can do big things without spending £100m. He is a go ..read more