Man City – Arsenal 2-3: Why ref? Why 4 minutes of extra time in a pre season friendly?

By Walter Broekx The Arsenal team at the start: Cech, Bellerin, Holding, Gabriel, Monreal, Coquelin, Xhaka, Ramsey, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Alexis, Iwobi.   The subs Debuchy, Gibbs, Ospina, Walcott, Cazorla, Chambers, Martinez, Campbell, Reine-Adelaide, Akpom, Elneny, Bielik, Zelalem, Willock. A first match for Alexis and Ramsey this season after their 5 and 4 weeks holiday after the …

Manchester Airport vs The Arsenal, and that means a lot of talk about INJURIES

By Bulldog Drummond Talk of the new season being just around the bend means talk of injuries – but this time not so much of Arsenal injuries but of Manchester Airport.  For quite amazingly, in the few days after Untold’s complaints that the media are still banging on about Arsenal’s side being decimated year after …

The changes to the loan system, how they relate to the under 23s, and how the Telegraph said “no”.

By Tony Attwood You can be forgiven for either a) not knowing that the player loan system has changed or will change, or b) thinking it has all been by-passed by a crafty FA outsmarting Fifa. But new regulations there are, and as far as I can see the story that England would not be …

Coming soon to a ground near you – Premier League 2

by Andrew Crawshaw What? – The Premier League 2 will replace the Under 21 Premier League from the start of the 2016/17 season.  According to the ‘powers that be’ the competition will have “a greater focus on a level of play in terms of technicality, physicality and intensity to bring players as close to first-team …