I do actually want to talk about Tonali going to The Scum and some rumours that they are after Junior Kroupi next, and some of the Arsenal fan reaction that we've seen, but before then, shall we talk a little World Cup? Firstly - and quickly, as I didn't watch the US game last night [...]
I hate to be a Johnny-I-told-you-so merchant, but as I wrote about just four days ago, it appears that clubs are playing the "if he's worth x, ours is worth y" card, it seems. Yesterday, we got Matt Law telling us that Villa view Rogers at £130million, whereas the French outlets are also signalling that they want similar monies to [...]
It's a new week, and another set of World Cup games to be peppered with, and the first of the knockout matches has already been decided. I didn't watch Canada beat South Africa last night, mainly because I wasn't sure what time it was on. I've gotten so used to the games being on at [...]
Thankfully, we didn't see Declan Rice yesterday, as Tuchel did the sensible thing and kept the Arsenal midfielder out of harms way as England got over a plucky Panama team last night. I watched the first half in a bar in London with some mates, pretty uninspired by England, but that's Par for the course [...]
If you are somebody who reads my ramblings regularly, you'll have noticed that I have been quite conspicuous by my absence. If there is anybody out there who finds what I have to say on football moderately interesting, firstly, you're a mentalist ;-) But secondly, apologies if you'd been wondering if I fell into a [...]
Maybe it's weird and irrational, but this World Cup hasn't even started yet, and all I want to happen is for our Arsenal boys to come home. Perhaps this feeling was triggered by the Jurrien Timber news, which I spoke about yesterday, or maybe it was the news from Tommy Tuchel that Bukayo Saka is [...]
The news that Christian Eriksen collapsed yesterday playing for Denmark really should hit home that when people say "it's only a game", this is when you say"yep - not worth it". It may be Erikson's livelihood, his job, his identity, but health has to come above everything else, and when you put yourself in his [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Yesterday, I led with the title of the blog: Stop breaking our players. At this point, you just have to laugh. Because the latest guy to return to London Colney is Pierro Hincapie, who limped off against Morocco on 72 minutes, and I have to wonder what the actual eff he was still doing on the [...]