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I'm not sure about Everton - despite chucking away two goal leads in the last two games. They are hugely hampered at the moment by having to play Michael Keane. He is nowhere near EPL standard. Once they get Branthwaite back, and pair him with O'Brien, their defence will be miles better. Dyche...

100%. The view from the North Stand, half way up, isn't always the best, but I thought we were good yesterday. Lots of really slick interplay (much quicker than under Potter or RDZ), and the way we regain possession at speed is really impressive. If we'd scored in the first half (as we deserved...

Good question....he was there for two years and there didn't seem to be any discernible transfer strategy. It seems a million miles away from the BHAFC approach - their signing of Minteh looks anomolous (almost certainly one that Ashworth "stole" from us). And they've ended up with that Greek...

If you enjoy reading a bit of “sense of place” fiction to get you in the mood before you travel, I can recommend Barcelona Dreaming by Rupert Thomson….

Yes, but he did actually make his professional debut for us!

Barry Glendenning on form in The Guardian: Ø ARSENAL! The dawn chorus of wailing and gnashing of teeth you could hear wherever you woke up on Tuesday morning was the sound of assorted Arsenal fans trying and failing to cope with the news that Martin Ødegaard was helped from the field during...

It's absolutely standard practice to use an "e" if you don't have a keyboard with an umlaut.

I saw England made 8 subs - Hinsh and Beadle were two of the three NOT subbed 😊

I hadn’t heard the Lallana quote, but I’d heard stories that JH’s family background had given him an amazing footballing education. I remember that match at Forest last season when JH came on as a first half sub. He was roasted several times and had a tough time early on. But he adapted...

An England sub I’d never heard of!!

Yes - rules are for little people…

He was asked. I'm not surprised Mail readers (and no doubt others of similar ilk) are frothing at the mouth....they need people to hate. No doubt there's a high degree of correlation with those who were OUTRAGED at the tiny purple & blue St George's cross on our Euro24 shirts (and probably...

I need the loyalty points :) Just got to psych myself up for a total of 10 hours on the train that day.....

Happy that Pascal confirms his Germanic characteristics by placing punctuality as his core value :)

Yes - watched the latest one last night - enjoyed the “behind the scenes” bits in particular 👍

Thanks for that - just watched the clip - excellent. Probably well over 500 posts on the issue on NSC (on this thread and others) [no doubt many thousands on the various Arsenal message boards]. Think of all the time that could have been saved if everyone had just watched that clip!

This incident sparked me into reading the rules for possibly the first time in my 50+ years of watching footie. It's been quite useful - and actually (compared to the laws of cricket) they are quite short. The fact that pundits who are paid a LOT of money to give their expert opinion clearly...

Presumably they'd have to review BOTH yellow cards? The first one may have been marginal, or a ref's error. And once you start doing that, we're back in the situation where the game is stopped for 5 minutes while the VAR folk pore over every frame. I think what the Arsenal podcast people...

It's called "Unsporting behaviour". Under this heading, Veltman could potentially have been guilty of "committing in a reckless manner a direct free kick offence" - which would have been a yellow card. The ref could possibly have seen Veltman's actions as "serious foul play" or "violent...

I listened to the Arsenal podcast "Handbrake Off" yesterday. It's one of The Athletic's club-specific podcasts, this one with Amy Lawrence (very well-respected journo), Adrian Clarke (Arsenal player from the 90s and long-time pundit/journo), and Ian Stone (comedian, mate of Alan Davies). Three...