Lee Hurley Archives: 06/2016

David Ospina and Colombia defeated the USA 1-0 in the Copa America third-place playoff which was played in the early hours of Sunday morning.

Stoke’s Xherdan Shaqiri has defended Granit Xhaka after the Arsenal midfielder blasted his penalty wide, costing his country a place in the quarter finals.

Things have, perhaps not unexpectedly been a bit quite over the last few days. With no actual football to talk about and the UK tearing…

What do you do when you’ve been knocked out the Euros? Well, you go and play tennis at Wimbledon, of course.

Aaron Ramsey has made it through to the quarter-finals of the Euros with Wales but they needed an own goal to seal the win over Northern Ireland.

Jody Taylor is ready to leave Arsenal and England to head to the States as the 30-year-old forward revealed on Twitter.

After the Brexit vote was announced a quote started doing the rounds claiming that Arsenal would put their transfer plans on hold because of the weakness of the pound.

Alex Iwobi has been included in the provisional Nigeria Olympic squad for the games this summer in Rio.

Thursday was, of course, dominated by the news that Jamie Vardy had signed a new contract and would be staying at Leicester.

How much does Arsene Wenger *really* have to spend?

On the face of it, the only thing more surprising than Jamie Vardy rejecting a move to Arsenal is Arsenal being interested in him in the first place.

On Thursday, laughter filled the air of Arsenal households everywhere as they read reports that Jose Mourinho wants to spend £50m and bring Aaron Ramsey to Manchester United.

Arsenal will apparently face Lens in a friendly on 22nd July according to teh French club.

Mesut Ozil and new boy Granit Xhaka have been named in the top ten best performing players at this year’s Euros so far.

Olivier Giroud will be fit to face Ireland in the last 16 of the Euros after being ‘manipulated’ by physios.

Petr Cech has said that being a genius does not help him in football as he can’t stop goals with his IQ.

Alexis Sanchez was named Man of the Match as Chile beat Colombia 2-0 to book a place in the Copa America final.

Leicester City have confirmed that Jamie Vardy will stay with the club after agreeing a new four-year deal with the club.

Although the Euros are still in the full swing of three games a day, Saturday saw a set of matches that featured no Arsenal interest. Here’s a roundup of the day’s nonsense

Arsenal are apparently in for Fulham’s Moussa Dembele who is available on a free transfer this summer.