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Join us for live blog coverage of our Premier League clash with Nottingham Forest, kick-off 15.00 We’ve got up to the second live text commentary, updates, goal clips, observations and occasionally witty asides. If you want to join the chat, register an Arseblog Live account. To do that, go to Arseblog Live – click login […]

Morning from a very wet and windy Dublin. Football is back and we face Nottingham Forest at home. On paper not the most tricky game we could have had, but given their form so far this season (and perhaps ours), definitely not a foregone conclusion by any means. Mikel Arteta was surprisingly forthcoming about the […]

Morning. It’s Friday. Get ready for information overload. That’s right, the manager will meet the press today ahead of our game against Nottingham Forest tomorrow, and we’ll get some information. Which will still feel like an overload because we’ve had nothing for weeks now. It feels like a long time has passed since that Chelsea […]

Welcome to another episode of the Arsecast – the Arsenal podcast. In this episode I’m joined by Miguel Delaney to chat about his new book: ‘States of play – How sportwashing took over football‘. We discuss what sportswashing actually means, and how in this book we come to understand it’s a very broad term to […]

There is an old adage that the star that burns twice as bright burns for half as long. This is an analogy often used for artists and musicians who die young due to their own excesses. Or sometimes musical phenomena that fizzles out quickly, the Sex Pistols only ever recorded one LP but their cultural […]

Morning. This is the worst day of the Interlull, when all the international football is done, but there’s no news yet because they’re still trying to figure out how everyone is after their travels. The official site posted a training video, from which I have three takeaways. 1 – I hope Gabriel Jesus finds the […]

The last thing a team chasing the title wants is to lose a key midfielder. A missing key defender can often be covered by his team-mates and collective organisation, playing without a star forward means you might be crying out for the odd moment of magic (or someone else to step up when the chance […]

Welcome to another Arsecast Extra, the Arsenal podcast, with myself and James from @gunnerblog. In this Interlull episode we catch up with the latest injury news, as Leandro Trossard seemingly picks up a knock while away with Belgium, and we round up the other Arsenal player involvement during the break. We take listener questions from […]

Morning all. A quick Monday blog. As an Irishman the less said about the football yesterday the better, I suppose. I actually had the first half on while I was making dinner, but turned off at 0-0. A wise decision, as it turns out. Meanwhile, there’s talk this morning of a Leandro Trossard injury, which […]

Happy Sunday to you all. I see from looking around in a perfunctory fashion that Kai Havertz did bits for Germany last night as they beat Bosnia and Herzegovina 7-0 (seven). Here’s his goal. Does that make up for the fact I once spent two weeks living in an Ibis hotel in a business park […]