FA Cup: Sutton – Arsenal 0-2

By Walter Broeckx A lot of changes as could be expected for the FA cup match against Sutton. Ospina kept his place in goal and Gabriel, Holding and Monreal came in next to Mustafi. In midfield we had the pairing of Elneny and Xhaka. Up front in the attacking positions we had Lucas, Reine-Adelaide and …

Sutton v Arsenal part 2: the teams, the gibberish, the snippets and injury news.

By Tony Attwood Being in Australia, as I still am for a few more days, I am fairly dependent on news from Untold and the newspapers on line to follow football. Today, I read in the Daily Mirror “After Lincoln and Millwall upset the odds in Saturday’s cup ties, the internet’s many comedians turned their …

Sutton v Arsenal: greatest giant killers and a look at non-leaguers of the past and

By Tony Attwood Of course there was a time when Arsenal were regularly knocked out of the FA Cup by teams from lower leagues: Chapman’s league champions were knocked out by Wallsall, in 1933.  Later the club was undone by Northampton Town in 1958, Sheffield Utd in 1959, Rotherham Utd in 1960, Sunderland in 1961, …