Lee Hurley Archives: 02/2020

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang is focused on Arsenal according to Bernd Leno who says speculation over the striker’s future is not having any impact on the squad.

Tottenham Hotspur and Jose Mourinho claim that Harry Kane may not be anywhere near full fitness when the Euros start this summer as they do not expect him to return to the pitch until Spurs’ last two games of the season.

Manchester City will find out later this month if they will be thrown out of the Champions League due to Financial Fair Play breaches.

Beth Mead has retweeted a message from Reading women’s captain Natasha Harding that hits out at the standard of refereeing in the English women’s game.

Leeds United lost again on Saturday, this time going down 1-0 at home to Wigan, thanks to an own goal as Pablo Hernandez deflected a corner past his own keeper.

Burnley will hand a debut to new boy Josh Brownhill against Arsenal on Sunday as Sean Dyche targets three league wins in a row and Mikel Arteta aims to stand up to his bullying tactics.

Raheem Sterling missed a number of glorious chances in his last match to end his goal-drought but as some journalists wonder if it is down to fatigue, I wonder if it has anything to do with Mikel Arteta leaving.

Mohamed Elneny is not wanted by Arsenal and, if a report out of Turkey is to be believed, he isn’t wanted there either which is kinda handy as he doesn’t want to be at Besiktas anyway.

January was Mikel Arteta’s first full month in charge of Arsenal, so how did the players rate?

Unai Emery has heaped a huge dollop of responsibility for his sacking on top of Arsenal fans when the reality is we were the least of his problems given his own ineptitude.