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At Arteta’s press conference yesterday, he was inevitably asked about the withdrawals of players from international duty and – according to the official site version of events, anyway – he played the most impressive of straight bats. To be fair, he will have known these questions would be coming; he’d have been briefed by the […]

I don’t really write about the Arsenal Women. I’m a follower, of course, I want them to do well, and of course I watch when I can, but I can’t profess to be an expert or know all the details about the WSL or Women’s Champions League, so I kind of hold my hands up […]

Ok, so, I think we know we have at least one guy coming back from the two sets of internationals, not broken, as Kai Havertz came off at halftime yesterday evening, having scored a penalty right on the strike of the half to put Germany one-up in Stuttgart. Phew. With him returning, having played an […]

Madueke’s withdrawal was expected from the Engaldn Camp. He was pictured leaving the match on Friday in a knee brace, so I don’t think anyone was surprised that the outcome was that he’d return back to London Colney. But Saka? And Rice? Apparently, according to the official England Football website, it is for ‘medical assessment.’ […]

I bet Big Vik Gyokeres is enjoying himself tonight, eh? Because Last night he helped to get his Swedish team into the final of the World Cup playoffs with a hat-trick, all of which felt very much part of his MO. First one, a tap-in after a good move on the left, with the striker […]

Football karma man, it sucks. The footballing gods in particular, man, they hate me. So I want to take this moment to offer a public apology to all of you guys who read my ramblings regularly: I have let you all down. I went Uber-positive on Sunday’s blog. It was a break from the norm. I […]

Well, that was disappointing yesterday, wasn’t it? Another League Cup Final, another defeat in it, and at this point, it feels like that competition is as cursed for us as the European ones are. Simply put, Arsenal only showed up for one half, on a day in which there were hopes that we could get […]

So, we’ve had the managers both say their piece ahead of tomorrow, and from it we at least know one bit of news – James Trafford will start in goal. I guess the second piece that we also know is that Marc Guehi can’t play, but that was already a well-documented situation from the semi-final. […]

Right. Now, with the dust having well and truly settled on our Champions League progression, eyes are beginning to shift to that Cup final on Sunday. Sure, we could probably take a moment to laugh at the ‘Spurziness’ of the Tiny Totts winning their first game of 2026, only for it to be worthless as […]