The Manchester City game came far too soon for Unai Emery. City are still very slick and fast and powerful. And the side Emery picked was a team that had never played together in a proper match. Yes, ten of…
Arsenal 0 Manchester City 2 Sterling 14 Bernardo Silva 64 Let’s look at one of the positives. Unai Emery has found a new left back, Lichtensteiner, who replaced the miscast Mailand-Niles, who got injured. But the new Head Coach has…
ARSENAL: Cech, Bellerin, Mustafi, Sokratis, Maitland-Niles, Guendouzi, Xhaka, Ramsey, Özil, Mkhitaryan, Aubameyang Subs: Leno, Lichsteiner, Holding, Elneny, Torreira, Iwobi, Lacazette. MAN CITY: Ederson, Walker, Stones, Laporte, Mendy, Fernandinho, Gündogan, Bernardo, Mahrez, Sterling, Agüero. Subs:Bravo, Kompany, De Bruyne, Sané, Otamendi, Jesus, Foden. ————————————————————— Wow!…
Plan A this morning was to back Keiran Trippier to score at anytime in Newcastle. But Plan A failed 50 minutes before kick-off. TRIPPIER ISN’T PLAYING and he’s not on the bench. Newcastle (4-2-3-1) Dubravka; Yedlin, Lascelles, Clark, Dummett; Shelvey,…
Is this match Sixth v the Champions? No. Is it Emery v Guardiola? No. The new season starts very early on Friday night when Leicester play Manchester United but my Golden Rule of August remains valid: This season is not…
It would be really nice. We can all agree on that, right? But is player-power crazy now? Last summer Paul Pogba and his mate Romelu Lukaku of Everton were whooping it up in a rented house in Los Angeles. Lukaku…
From Rhys Jaggar : 1) Kroenke is making fans pay for his purchase. Kroenke is not paying cash, he is using a Deutsche Bank bridging loan. This is what Glazers did, then shifted loan from personal liability to club liability.…
From Rhys Jaggar: The real question to be answered is this: What is Ivan Gazidis’ Job Description now? 1) It is not negotiating player contracts and transfers – that is Sanllehi and Fahmy. 2) It is not scouting and squad…
Hi Myles, I am not angry at Ivan. Friends of his are a hedge fund who own AC Milan, a club who need sorting out. Ivan received a lucrative offer from them, and he acted ethically by informing the Arsenal…
The programme is hosted by Neil Ashton of The Sun. This week’s guests were Matt Dickinson ( Chief Sportswriter for The Times), Jason Burt (Chief Football Correspondent of The Daily Telegraph) and German journalist & author Raphael Honigstein (Der Spiegel and ESPN). Burt…