Lee Hurley Archives: 12/2018

Arsenal have been handed a tough draw against Birmingham City in the FA Continental Tyres Cup quarter-finals.

Unai Emery has said it is a ‘good decision’ to ban a Tottenham fan from football for four years after he threw a banana skin at Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang when the sides met a few weeks ago.

Unai Emery has said that Jose Mourinho’s dismissal from Manchester United is ‘not good news’ but sadly he didn’t mean it as you and I would mean it.

Arsenal have struck an agreement to partner with a beer company in Rwanda as they continue to develop their connection with the country.

Arsenal are reportedly facing a ‘staffing crisis’ due to the early nature of their Europa League last-32 kick-off time against BATE Borisov.

Arsenal probably wanted to ease Laurent Koscielny back into things but injuries and suspensions meant that he was thrown into the deep end as soon as he showed his Achilles was likely to stay attached to the rest of his leg.

I don’t know about you, but to me, Mauricio Pochettino is starting to sound a little bit like Jose Mourinho but without a single trophy to back up his mouth.

A story took hold over the weekend that ‘snowflakes’ are demanding Santa is changed to female or gender neutral, eliciting outrage across the internet and fuelling hate from the right-wing.

As Arsenal face down the barrel of their own injury crisis so Tottenham have decided to have one of their own, aided by Eric Dier’s dodgy appendix that had to be removed.

Mauricio Pochettino has warned Spurs fans to behave when they return to the Emirates this week for the first time since one of their fans threw a banana skin at Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.

Arsenal will try to sign a player next month but, like his predecessor, Unai Emery does not like the January transfer window.

Hector Bellerin looks set to miss the Xmas period after he picked up a calf problem against Southampton.

Crystal Palace’s academy director, Gary Issott, has confirmed that the club did indeed try to sign Alex Iwobi a few years back when the club told him they didn’t care if he left.

We all know that Spurs haven’t won anything under Maruricio Pochettio but it seems, sometimes, as if that message hasn’t quite reached the media just yet.

Chuba Akpom may have left Arsenal for a new adventure in Greece, but the former Academy star has been speaking about his former team mate, Alex Iwobi, in glowing terms.

We don’t often pay attention to what Michael Owen has to say but as he’s said something nice about one of our youngsters, I’m going to allow it.

Gurban Gurbanov, manager of Qarabag, has said that Arsenal should not be in the Europa League because they are simply too good for the competition.

Arsenal are reportedly in talks over a five-game USA tour for the summer of 2019 that would see them play in New York and Chicago.

Tony Pulis has refused to ‘dignify’ Dave Kitson’s allegations that he deliberately wound up his payers against Arsenal in what is a classic non-denial denial.

Alex Iwobi and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang have both made the African Player of the Year 10-man shortlist and it seems like the inclusion of one of them is causing a bit of bother.