Lee Hurley Archives: 10/2019

Bernd Leno has followed Mesut Ozil by setting up his own esports team and has recently announced a new partner.

When Liverpool announced their lineup for the game against Arsenal, Unai Emery must have known he was on a hiding to nothing and with Mesut Ozil determined to take his chance, the Spaniard had his worst Arsenal night since Baku.

Nigel Winterburn has been speaking about the situation at Arsenal with Unai Emery while also looking ahead to Arsenal’s game against Liverpool in the Carabao Cup.

Arsenal will make counselling available to Granit Xhaka with the player said to be ‘devastated’ over Sunday’s incidents.

Arsenal are reportedly ‘seething’ over the VAR calls that cost them the game against Crystal Palace on Sunday but they might be slightly misguided in their thinking.

The Arsenal squad are reportedly ‘split’ over Unai Emery’s treatment of Nicolas Pepe and Mesut Ozil according to the Daily Telegraph as things get out of hand.

Granit Xhaka has reportedly refused to apologise to Arsenal fans after telling them to ‘f**k off’ as he was booed on Sunday.

Mesut Ozil will be in the Arsenal squad that travels to Liverpool on Wednesday night for their League Cup game.

Le10Sport report that Arsenal could well move for Massimiliano Allegri, therefore stopping PSG signing him even though they currently have Thomas Tuchel.

Phil Neville has announced his England squad for their upcoming games against Germany and the Czech Republic.

Martin Keown has blamed Unai Emery for the boos Granit Xhaka received on Sunday at the Emirates as he slow-walked off the pitch.

Unai Emery is to consult his players about keeping Granit Xhaka on as captain, seemingly completely unaware that the fans didn’t want Xhaka as their captain in the first place.

With both VAR decisions going against Arsenal this weekend, it seems as if the new tech has it in for the Gunners, but are the refs really screwing Arsenal or are we just imagining it?

Former Premier League Mark Clattenburg has said that both VAR decisions at the Emirates were wrong.

Martin Atkinson went into Arsenal’s game against Crystal Palace with a key decision accuracy rate of 40% for the season and ended up reducing that to 36% by the end of the match.

Arsenal must surely be looking for a new captain and while it will probably go to someone like Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang in a bid to get him to sign a new contract, it should go to Hector Bellerin.

If you want to diffuse a situation, I’m pretty sure the last thing you should do is like a post on social media that tells your manager to leave but that’s exactly what Alexandre Lacazette has done as the Unai Emery sh*t show rumbles on.

There was mostly just one main talking point that dominated all others on Sunday and that was Granit Xhaka being booed by the Arsenal fans as he slow marched off the pitch and his subsequent reaction.

There is no other word for it but ‘sh*t show’ when it comes to describing Arsenal against Crystal Palace.

Arsenal managed to get a 2-2 draw against Crystal Palace and as that’s better than the 3-2 defeat last season, Unai Emery is no doubt delighted.