Football Archives: 06/2016

It’s all a bit quiet on the Arsenal front at the moment but here’s the latest news and gossip from Friday.

Hector Bellerin was on the bench for the entire match… again.

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A last minute penalty meant the Czech Republic managed to earn a point when no one thought they could.

Despite scoring two goals in as many games in Euro 2016, Arsene Wenger insists that Dimitri Payet hasn’t always been this consistent.

Santi Cazorla has described Jack Wilshere as a ‘joy to watch’ recently while the 24-year-old is away in France for the Euros.

Wojciech Szczesny has received ultimately lad™ points after showing off his rather nasty-looking bruise on Instagram.

Another day, another load of Euro action.

Born in Caerphilly, South Wales, Aaron Ramsey is the eighth Welshman to play for Arsenal. Here are seven mildly interesting facts about his home town: Never…

Granit Xhaka hasn’t played a single minute for Arsenal but Gooners everywhere have already fallen in love with him for a number of reasons.

Mesut Ozil started for Germany as they struggled to create anything of note and drew 0-0 with Poland.

Something quite unusual happened in the FA WSL with two players buying out their contract to leave their club.

Aaron Ramsey played the full 90 as Wales frustrated Englspurs in France on Thursday.

There are few scenes in sport films more iconic than the end of Rocky’s run around Philadelphia, culminating at the top of the steps in front of the Museum of Art.

With France winning 2-0, it was the first clean sheet for the French defence in the tournament.

With France struggling, again, to score goals and relying on a late winner, it was a frustrating night for Olivier Giroud against Albania on Wednesday.

Here’s Wednesday’s news and gossip from the Goonerverse.

Although neither managed to score during France’s 2-0 win over Albania, both Olivier Giroud and Laurent Koscielny featured.

Granit Xhaka, once again, put in a superb performance for Switzerland in their 1-1 draw against Romania.

If you have a bit of some to kill between Euro 2016 matches, Paddy Power has come up with a nifty ‘guess the player’ game.