Stoke – Arsenal : (0)1 -4

By Walter Broeckx Arsenal team: Cech, Mustafi, Koscielny, Holding, Bellerin, Coquelin, Xhaka, Monreal, Ozil, Alexis, Giroud On the beach:  Ospina, Gabriel, Elneny, Ramsey, Iwobi, Walcott, Welbeck A long ball from Mustafi finds Alexis but he was offside and wasted the chance anyway. Arsenal monopolizing the ball in the opening stages and Stoke defending in numbers. …

Stoke v Arsenal: the preface to the violence and the line up

By Bulldog Drummond By and large when a manager says, “We are looking to dent Arsenal’s top-four hopes” one can take “dent” as a metaphor, but when Stoke City manager Mark Hughes says it you know he means “dent” literally.  It will be all out war, with very little to do with football.  And with …

With Chelsea winning the league where does that leave the rush for the other CL places?

By Bulldog Drummond Although it was largely missed due to the mass hysteria of Chelsea winning the league, there was another match last night: Everton beat Watford 1-0.  Rather amusingly Statto has made a mistake in its calculations and have Everton above Arsenal in the league, but just in case that is where you started …