Arsenal Media Watch Archives: 12/2018

Jonathan Norcroft believes that Lucas Torreira is the ‘signing of the season’ beating out Liverpool’s Xherdan Shaqiri.

The Mail on Sunday spoke to Chris Foy after Arsenal’s win over Burnley and the former ref says that Arsenal’s third goal should have been disallowed.

Mesut Ozil was roundly hailed after Arsenal’s win over Burnley as the German returned to the side for the Premier League.

Sean Dyche has accused Arsenal players of cheating, diving, and elbowing in a story that dominates the post-game narrative and is beyond laughable given the state of Burnley’s thugs at the Emirates on Saturday.

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.

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.

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.

Gary Neville believes that Unai Emery will need a couple of transfer windows to get to a place where he doesn’t have to make so many in-game changes.

Fans and their representatives were left furious when it was announced that only 10 of the 32 FA Cup third round games will kick-off at 3pm on a Saturday after 22 games were moved to accommodate the wishes of TV companies.

Arsenal apparently set a new record against Huddersfield on Saturday and it’s one they won’t want to keep.

Lucas Torreira was the only Arsenal player to make Garth Crooks’ BBC Team of the Week this weekend after the Uruguayan netted his second Arsenal goal with a splendid overhead kick.

Sam Wallace is the first journalist I’ve come across who manages to deal with this whole Arsenal ‘hippy crack’ story with some notion of proportion.

Arsenal stars enjoyed hippy crack! It’s enough to start a scandal – if you try hard enough.

Three pages in the Daily Fail and a load of coverage on the S*n’s website shows two of the most right-wing papers in the country…

Whether he was serious or not, Martin Samuel’s comments in Tuesday’s Daily Mail are beyond ridiculous, even for their Gammon-in-chief who has already been complaining that the Women’s Super League gets too much coverage.

Arsenal only managed to get two players into former Tottenham man Garth Crooks’ Team of the Week.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has responded on Instagram to an incident where a banana skin was thrown at him by Spurs fans after his first goal on Sunday.