Lee Hurley Archives: 06/2018

Hector Bellerin has taken a shot at Talksport’s Alan Brazil and didn’t miss.

Stephan Lichtsteiner has defended Granit Xhaka after the Arsenal man celebrated his Switzerland screamer with a double-headed eagle gesture aimed at the Serbian fans.

It will have escaped nobody’s attention that Alex Scott and Eni Aluko are female pundits offering their opinions at the World Cup. In this mini-pod, Lee Hurley briefly discusses the problems women face in the footballing world while asking why we tolerate the awful standards delivered by male pundits in the game.

Granit Xhaka, Mesut Ozil, and Petr Cech have all joined forces with Freedom from Torture’s campaign to mark Refugee Week that runs until 24th June.

Sampdoria’s midfielder, Lucas Torreira, has said he doesn’t know if he’s going to Arsenal this summer despite the media being convinced the deal is all but done.

Germany made a losing start to the World Cup, falling 1-0 to Mexico, and surprise, surprise – guess who was in the firing line? That’s right; our own Mesut Ozil seems to be the fall guy again.

It will have escaped nobody’s attention that Alex Scott and Eni Aluko are female pundits offering their opinions at the World Cup.

Vyan Sampson has signed for West Ham after seven years with Arsenal.

Arsenal are looking for a new psychologist to work with the women’s team as well as offering support to the men’s youth teams.

Gareth Bale’s agent, Jonathan Barnett, has told Sky Sports that he ‘would love for Bale to play for Arsenal’ but admitted there’s not much chance of that happening.

Arsenal have reportedly signed Joel Lopez from the Barcelona Academy.

When the day came for Jack Wilshere to leave Arsenal, I thought I’d be sadder.

Besiktas have reportedly cancelled talks with Jack Wilshere after the Arsenal man demanded €8m-a-season to sign for them.

Lothar Matthaus has hit out at Mesut Ozil claiming that it looks like he doesn’t want to play for Germany.

In this latest roundup, Anita turns her attention to the games that took place on Tuesday. Colombia (Ospina) v Japan, Poland (Woj) v Senegal and Russia v Egypt (Elneny) all feature. Anita also previews Wednesday’s matches which feature Portugal v Morocco, Uruguay (Torreira) v Saudi Arabia, and Iran v Spain (Monreal).

On Italian TV on Tuesday night, Sampdoria’s president, Massimo Ferrero, let slip that midfielder, Lucas Torreira, will be joining Arsenal for €30m despite his release clause only being €26m.

Arsenal fans didn’t quite know what to do with themselves on Tuesday evening as it was announced that Jens Lehmann and Jack Wilshere will leave the club while Bernd Leno has become Unai Emery’s newest addition to the club and Steve Bould would be staying.

Turkish sports minister, Osman Bak, has hit out at the way Mesut Ozil and Ilkay Gundogan have been treated since they met with Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Arsenal are prepared to let Joel Campbell and Lucas Perez leave the club this season but two players expected to leave could stay.

Mexico are facing punishment from FIFA for the homophobic chanting of their fans at the World Cup in Russia