Is it safe to come out? Did every Arsenal player make it out in one piece? It sounds like it to me. Even in the early hours of the morning with the Brazil game, mercifully Big Gabi and Martinelli were both unused subs, as the Selecao went on to lose 1-0 away to Bolivia. That sounds [...]
When Norway boss Solbakken called up Odegaard, I naturally feared the worst, as I'm sure you did too. Footballers are a little different from you and I, you see, because where I personally would happily tell England to 'do one', they want to play for their national teams in these pointless glorified friendlies. So I [...]
Without having any kind of official confirmation from the club it is impossible to say if we've made it through 'round three' of the 'pray no Arsenal players get injured on international duty' roulette. But it sounds - on the face of it - like everyone has made it through without any massive injuries or [...]
This is the worst part of the international break. It really is - as Arseblog puts it - the 'Interlull'. Eng-ger-land might have played yesterday, Harry Kane might have got himself another individual accolade in a team sport (well done Harry, hope you keep up your record in cup competitions too), but frankly I couldn't give [...]
Yesterday I was chatting to Danny, Craig and Sulz on the Same old Arsenal podcast and we got to talking about who the next captain could be. Of course the conversation moved around a little bit, but the two outstanding characters that were mentioned were Kieran Tierney - a perfectly good choice I'd be more [...]
Ahh the international breaks - as I like to call them - "time off from football". I have never held any interest whatsoever in these ghastly mid-season periods of pointlessness and whilst some people do indeed get rather excitable over matches played for their chosen country/country of birth, until a major tournament I just couldn't [...]