Lee Hurley Archives: 12/2016

Arsenal’s captain, Per Mertesacker, has told the official matchday programme, that he wasn’t happy with how his Arsenal side fought in their last two Premier League matches.

Arsene Wenger has said that ‘disappointments are part of a successful season’ but admitted that losing is hard to take because his side aren’t used to it.

Arsenal face West Brom on Boxing Day having lost only 2 of their previous 19 Premier League Boxing Day games and Petr Cech has been speaking ahead of the game

Nacho Monreal has revealed that he used to be called ‘Cabra’ when he was a kid – or, to put it in English, ‘goat’.

It’s Boxing Day and our lighter-than-usual festive schedule kicks off against West Brom, so how will Arsenal line up?

On this day in 1932, Arsenal defeated Sheffield United 9-2 at Highbury on their way to winning their second title in three years and first of a hattrick of back-to-back titles

Goalkeeper Graham Stack and former youngster, Jeffrey Monakana, have both signed for new clubs.

As we rush towards January, attentions have already turned to what players Arsene Wenger could possibly recruit when the transfer window opens.

Alexis Sanchez has said that he is ‘happy and comfortable’ at Arsenal in a recent interview given to Arsenal magazine.

Reiss Nelson, Ben Sheaf, Jeff Reine-Adelaide and Ainsley Maitland-Niles all trained with the Arsenal first team on Friday as the team gets ready to face West Brom on Boxing Day.

Arsene Wenger has revealed that he is being ‘cautious’ with Danny Welbeck after the forward returned to first team training for the first time since he picked up his knee injury in May.

Alexis has been singing the praises of Mesut Ozil in the latest edition of the Arsenal magazine.

Alexis Sanchez’s love for his dogs is well documented and now he has explained why he called his pets ‘Atom’ and ‘Humber’

Daniel Crowley will spend the second half of this season on loan with the Go Ahead Eagles in the Netherlands after a deal was agreed between the two sides.

On December 23, 1976, Arsenal sold Alan Ball to Southampton for £60,000 after the midfielder scored 45 goals in 177 league appearances for Arsenal.

Former Arsenal player and current Arsenal scout, Danny Karbassiyoon, was speaking recently with the Arsenal matchday programme about playing and scouting for the club.

All the latest Arsenal team news ahead of West Brom Boxing Day fixture

In part of a batch of contracts being released by Football Leaks in conjunction with a number of media outlets, part of Thomas Vermaelen’s Barca contract has been released.

Arsenal are in sixth place when it comes to the best teams in Europe this season with two potential Champions League opponents occupying spots above them.

Laurent Koscielny and Alexis Sanchez are statistically the best players in Europe for their positions according to data on Whoscored.com.