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Morning all. It’s another late Saturday kick-off as we travel to Everton looking for a repeat of last week’s victory over Wolves, but hopefully achieved with an improved performance. We’ll have to be better to take all three points, no question, and our last three away games have brought only 2 points, so there’s room […]

Morning. We’ll wait to hear from Mikel Arteta this morning about injury updates before making any comment on a story that suggests Kai Havertz’s return will be a little later than expected. From what we had heard, he was looking at the game post-Christmas, but before new year, to make his comeback, but now it […]

Welcome to another episode of the Arsecast – the Arsenal podcast. In this episode I’m joined by Kaya Kaynak to discuss a wide range of topics, starting with the EFL Cup draw and the potential of a two-legged semi-final against Chelsea if we win our quarter-final against Crystal Palace. How seriously should Arsenal take this […]

A few years ago I read an article about why young people are drinking less alcohol than previous generations. These things are always multi-factorial but one of the key theories the piece addressed was ‘the fear of being perceived.’ In an increasingly digitised world where young people film one another as a matter of course […]

Morning all. Sorry the blog is a bit later than usual but I was out with James in Dublin last night. He’s here on a top secret mission, so when he had a small break from that, we had a couple of drinks and some food. I wish I could tell you all what this […]

Morning all. The players were back to training yesterday after a couple of days off, and after some frank exchanges between them were reported after the Wolves game, I’m sure they’ll be working hard this week to prepare for Everton on Saturday evening. As I said the other day, I really have no issue at […]

Morning all. It’s a bit mad to think that after spending so much during the summer, and bolstering the squad in a really substantial and comprehensive way, Arsenal might need to do some January business. The initial reporting is that Ben White is set to miss a month with a hamstring strain he picked up […]

Welcome to another Arsecast Extra, the Arsenal podcast, with myself and James from @gunnerblog. In this episode we look back at Saturday’s last gasp win over Wolves, and try to balance the importance of the three points with the level of performance Arsenal put in. If the manager and the players are unhappy, is it […]

Morning all. It’s the start of a new week, and now that the dust has settled a little bit after Saturday evening, I thought it was interesting to hear Mikel Arteta talk about the plans between then and the Everton game – also an 8pm Saturday evening kick-off. He said: What we have to do […]

Match report – Player ratings – Arteta reaction The game kicked off late, ended later, and the post-match discussions/drinks went even later than that again. So, this might well be a less informed blog than usual. I haven’t really seen any replays, and I haven’t had a chance to look at big moments again, so […]