Good morning from London, the place you’ll be glad to listen to my trousers are neatly folded at present.
I’ll come to final evening in a second, however at present begins with the sport afterward. Newcastle are on the town and it’s a giant one meaning one thing when it comes to how we end this season. They’ve been a ache for us 3 times, and a few payback for that’s overdue. Therefore, I feel Mikel Arteta will choose the strongest aspect obtainable to him.
Mikel Merino is suspended following his crimson card at Anfield final week, so assuming Leandro Trossard is match sufficient, he ought to begin up entrance, and hopefully Declan Rice is able to go once more in midfield after lacking the journey to Liverpool. Past that, the one different difficulty I can envisage is Jurrien Timber who didn’t participate within the midweek coaching session, however when the choice to fill in is Ben White, you’re hardly right down to brass tacks.
Even when this season feels over, you’ll be able to make sure that gained’t be the message within the Arsenal dressing room, and particularly not the Newcastle one. They will go above us with a win at present, and that might be an enormous motivation for them, so we’re going to need to be switched on absolutely this afternoon. Prior to now the supervisor has opted to take care of their bodily energy by choosing a barely extra technical workforce and hoping the PGMOL don’t enable their gamers to elbow our lads within the head and get away with it, however at present I believe he’s going to lean into the necessity to compete bodily (in addition to hoping the PGMOL don’t enable their gamers to elbow our lads within the head and get away with it).
Hopefully Kai Havertz could make the bench and provides us another choice for the latter phases of the sport if we’d like it, however I hope by the point he comes on – if he comes on – this can be a recreation that’s with none jeopardy and we’re nicely forward. That’s to not take something as a right, it’s simply what I’d actually wish to see, and I hope we will simply be a bit ruthless at present. We’re overdue a win, it’s the final dwelling recreation of the season, and it might be good to exit with a little bit of a bang. And no matter how meaningless some folks would possibly view it, I feel there’s some significance in ending second and never being overtaken proper on the finish.
I’m clearly going to be there at present, however we may have all the standard protection on the reside weblog and the post-game stuff on Arseblog Information too.
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So, we had our reside podcast final evening at Union Chapel, and as ever it was a implausible evening, and beautiful to see so many individuals there. There’s a type of affirmation in actual life interactions that’s actually necessary, and whereas we’re all very clearly on-line (as a result of how else do you get podcasts and blogs and stuff?), it’s simply nice to be round so many Arsenal followers, each for the present and to speak and meet afterwards.
I feel I managed to speak to everybody I presumably might, but when I missed you I apologise, it was fairly busy within the bar upstairs afterwards! With James, Elliot, Clive, Paul and Tim alongside you, it makes every thing simpler and higher so whereas I’m certain they already know the way a lot I really like them and admire them, it’s price placing it down in print too.
We had been additionally very comfortable to have a particular visitor for a couple of minutes, and I’m certain you’ll in all probability have already seen that Mikel Arteta took a while from his busy day to show up and say because of followers who helped the ArsenalVision fundraiser generate over £360,000 for the Arsenal Basis this 12 months. It was final minute, it was very prime secret, and I can’t lie, I used to be fairly nervous to ask him a few fast questions however I feel it went okay!
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— Tom (@thomas-j-powell.bsky.social) 2025-05-18T07:08:34.144Z
I can’t say for certain, however I don’t suppose he had any actual thought of what he was turning as much as. I’m fairly certain reside podcasts aren’t actually a part of his life, however the reception he received was superb. All of us have our points and our criticisms in terms of soccer, however for me it’s been clear from day one which Mikel Arteta actually cares deeply concerning the membership and bringing the type of success all of us need. That was 100% mirrored in how he was obtained by a packed home at Union Chapel. A extremely particular second, and due to these behind the scenes who helped make it occur.
The total present is obtainable now for Patreon members, after which we’ll have a model out on YouTube within the subsequent couple of days for everybody. Proper, I’m gonna go away it there, hopefully the boys can do the enterprise at present and perhaps I’ll see a few of you round this afternoon. Say hello!
Come on you reds!
