SUNDAY ROUND-UP

Let’s start off with a… that’s cute.

Hi Fran, really sorry to hear about your son’s situation. Id love to invite you both to a game. Bullies will never win. Please check your dm

— Alexandre Lacazette (@LacazetteAlex) February 6, 2022

Alex Lacazette looking after young Fran who is having problems at school. Very classy.

Ok, footballistically, what do we have?

NOTTINGHAM FOREST SMASHED LEICESTER 4-1.

Wild times. They let us off the hook. Brendan Rodgers Fan Club is absolutely in the mud this season. They rolled out a first team. Djed Spencer delivered the finishing move. Our future back-up right back, who knows, a better bet than my man Cedric Soares.

This weekend wasn’t great news for most in the FA Cup. West Ham and Chelsea progressed to the latter rounds after extra time against lower level teams. Manchester United is OUT after getting spanked by Boro. Spurs sailed past Brighton and that means extra minutes for them.

I am absolutely gagging to get into the mixer on a game so we can get our momentum back. The Wolves game was rescheduled for the day I arrive back in the UK. Written in the stars? Maybe.

Our 3 Premier League games after the break are massive. Take 4 points off Wolves and 3 off of Brentford and we’re cooking. Slump to defeat against Wolves and the chasing back are on you and the whingers will be out in force talking about how much they love Anotonio Conte and his removal of canteen mayonnaise.

Fitness and internal solutions is going to be the theme of our run in.

If this then that.

I’m sure that’s some sort of IT thing for IOT stuff. Anyway, if Tomi is injured then do we roll with Cedric and lose security on the right, or do we role with White on the right and lose an outlet through the middle.

If Lacazette pings a hammy, do we opt for an Eddie run in the side, or do we get to see why Gabi fancies himself as a #14.

Those are the two biggest worries we have. Most other eventualities have been stress tested this season.

There isn’t a better option for Arsenal than Nuno as the replacement for Tierney.

Sambi Lokonga is perfectly fine to sub in for Partey or Xhaka, we know, because we’ve seen it for an extended run this season.

The onus is on Arteta to stop being stingy with the minutes. Make sure everyone is ready, because we saw super Sambi do a great job for us, then he disappeared for 7 weeks. Arteta did the same to Martinelli, disappearing him for 6 months. We need to keep important players in the mixer because we don’t want undercooked players trying to fire us to top 4, because they’ll fail.

Marc Overmars becomes the second exPremier League legend of ours to exit the game under shameful circumstances. The Ajax Sporting Director, a hot target for Newcastle, was axed today for sending no-so-welcome text messages to numerous female colleagues. Quite a way to wreck your career and your marriage. But bravo to Ajax for not sweeping it under the rug, they’ve set a tone there I suspect not many other clubs would.

Ok, just a short post today, this post is mainly about driving you to our latest video / podcast.

Enjoy, it’s a fun one with Pedro and Johnny.