Good win, excellent kiddies, weird sprouts. Arsenal’s reserves and youngsters beat BATE

By Tony Attwood It’s been a long ol’ time since I watched Beetee Sprout doing a football show, and it took Martin Keown to point out what a reserve team Arsenal put out, and then made the point about what an amazing player Reiss Nelson is.   He’s 17.   Who needs Mbappe? But we …

ФК БАТЭ Барысаў (Bate) v Arsenal: the selections of who actually got on the plane and who didn’t.

by Bulldog Drummond Since the plane has taken off, and indeed landed in foreign parts, we can now be fairly sure that Alexis Sánchez, Mesut Özil, Alexis Sanchez, Alexandre Lacazette, Laurent Koscielny, Granit Xhaka, Aaron Ramsey and Petr Cech were apparently not seen at the airport! But not that sure, as will perhaps become apparent …

Leaving games early – are these figures right, and a look at BATE and injuries.

By Tony Attwood There is a bit of research doing the rounds from an organisation called “Voucherbox” (which seems to have something to do with the Vouchers you get from people like Virgin) which even on the face of it looks so bizarre as to be unbelievable.  Yet they want us to believe it straight …