Lee Hurley Archives: 12/2018

Arsenal’s impressive season-long winning streak came to a cruel end at Manchester City on Sunday as they lost, rather harshly, 2-0.

Unai Emery has admitted that Spurs are better than Arsenal ‘at this moment’ but was quick to point out that this is only a temporary thing.

When the news was announced that Mike Dean would referee Arsenal’s game against Spurs this weekend, the first thought that popped into my head was ‘why always Dean?’

It is fun to believe that your club is on the wrong end of a conspiracy, be it from the referees, the media or other authorities but, for the most part, they just don’t exist.

Ahead of the north London derby this weekend, I thought I’d take a look at some of the things I dislike most about Tottenham.

There are few things certain in life – death and taxes, as the saying goes. Then, of course, there’s Tottenham being sh*t. When I was asked to write about this being the first time in a generation that Arsenal fans actually fear Spurs aren’t just a one-season wonder, I almost wet myself laughing before replying, ‘sure, I’ll write about that.’

Arsenal’s French goalkeeper, Pauline Peyraud-Magnin spoke with Daily Cannon after Arsenal’s recent win over Brighton & Hove Albion and the 26-year-old revealed the manager has asked for them to come together in the wake of the injury crisis they currently find themselves in.

Rob Holding is looking forward to playing against Harry Kane on Sunday as the Englishman looks to start his first north London derby.

Alexis Sanchez will face around six weeks on the sidelines after he damaged his hamstring in Manchester United training and Jose Mourinho has been bemoaning the players’ bad luck since he signed in January.

Arsenal have reportedly contacted Barcelona for Ousmane Dembele and are willing to pay €90m plus €10m in add-ons in a story that is hard to believe.

Hugo Lloris has warned Arsenal that Tottenham are finally hitting their stride’ before the sides face each other this weekend.