Tag: Garth Crooks

TOPSHOT - Arsenal's English midfielder #07 Bukayo Saka celebrates scoring the opening goal during the English Premier League football match between Arsenal and Wolverhampton Wanderers at the Emirates Stadium in London on December 2, 2023. (Photo by GLYN KIRK/AFP via Getty Images)

2 Arsenal players feature in Premier League Teams of the Week

Arsenal have two players in the BBC, WhoScored, and Premier League Teams of the Week after the weekend win against Wolves.
BRENTFORD, ENGLAND: Kai Havertz of Arsenal celebrates with teammate Declan Rice following the team's victory during the Premier League match between Brentford FC and Arsenal FC at Gtech Community Stadium on November 25, 2023. (Photo by Mike Hewitt/Getty Images)

Arsenal ‘genius’ makes Team of the Week for Brentford win

Arsenal have one entrant in the BBC's Premier League Team of the Week after the weekend win away to Brentford.
LONDON, ENGLAND: William Saliba of Arsenal celebrates after scoring the team's second goal during the Premier League match between Arsenal FC and Burnley FC at Emirates Stadium on November 11, 2023. (Photo by Justin Setterfield/Getty Images)

Arsenal player makes Team of the Week after Burnley win

William Saliba has been named in the BBC Team of the Week for his goalscoring performance against Burnley at the weekend.
LONDON, ENGLAND: Eddie Nketiah of Arsenal celebrates after scoring the team's second goal during the Premier League match between Arsenal FC and Sheffield United at Emirates Stadium on October 28, 2023. (Photo by Alex Pantling/Getty Images)

Arsenal 24yo features in multiple Teams of the Week

Eddie Nketiah features in multiple Teams of the Week for the most recent round of Premier League fixtures, after his hat-trick heroics.
LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 08: William Saliba and Gabriel of Arsenal celebrate following their sides victory after the Premier League match between Arsenal FC and Manchester City at Emirates Stadium on October 08, 2023 in London, England. (Photo by Alex Pantling/Getty Images)

2 Arsenal players make Team of the Week for City win

Two Arsenal players have made it into multiple Teams of the Week after the Gunners' win over Manchester City on Sunday.
WATFORD, ENGLAND - MARCH 06: Bukayo Saka of Arsenal celebrates after scoring their sides second goal during the Premier League match between Watford and Arsenal at Vicarage Road on March 06, 2022 in Watford, England. (Photo by Alex Pantling/Getty Images)

Arsenal player makes BBC Team of the Week once again

Bukayo Saka has made another appearance in the BBC Team of the Week, following his goal and assist against Watford.
LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 06: David Luiz of Arsenal scores his team's first goal during the Premier League match between Arsenal FC and AFC Bournemouth at Emirates Stadium on October 06, 2019, in London, United Kingdom. (Photo by Catherine Ivill/Getty Images)

David Luiz makes Team of the Week after Bournemouth goal

David Luiz made it into Garth Crooks' Team of the Week after Arsenal's win against AFC Bournemouth, the only member of Unai Emery's team to do so.
LONDON, ENGLAND - JANUARY 19: Olivier Giroud of Chelsea and Laurent Koscielny of Arsenal embrace after the Premier League match between Arsenal FC and Chelsea FC at Emirates Stadium on January 19, 2019 in London, United Kingdom. (Photo by Catherine Ivill/Getty Images)

Koscielny and Bellerin make Teams of the Week

Laurent Koscielny made Garth Crook’s BBC Team of the Week as well as Jamie Redknapp’s Daily Mail team while Hector Bellerin also made an appearance.
LONDON, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 08: Lucas Torreira of Arsenal celebrates after scoring his team's first goal during the Premier League match between Arsenal FC and Huddersfield Town at Emirates Stadium on December 8, 2018 in London, United Kingdom. (Photo by Justin Setterfield/Getty Images)

Lucas Torreira makes BBC Team of the Week again

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.
Arsenal's Gabonese striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang celebrates on the pitch after the English Premier League football match between Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur at the Emirates Stadium in London on December 2, 2018. - Arsenal won the game 4-2. (Photo by Adrian DENNIS /

2 Arsenal players make BBC Team of the Week

Arsenal only managed to get two players into former Tottenham man Garth Crooks' Team of the Week.
LONDON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 20: Rob Holding of Arsenal acknowledges the fans after the UEFA Europa League Group E match between Arsenal and Vorskla Poltava at Emirates Stadium on September 20, 2018 in London, United Kingdom. (Photo by Henry Browne/Getty Images)

Damn! Rob Holding makes BBC Team of the Week

Rob Holding made Garth Crooks' Team of the Week after his stellar defensive display against Liverpool on Saturday.

3 Arsenal stars make BBC Team of the Week

Hector Bellerin, Lucas Torreira, and Alexandre Lacazette all made Garth Crooks' BBC Team of the Week after their stellar displays against Fulham on Sunday.

Mesut Ozil makes BBC Team of the Week

Mesut Ozil earned a spot in Garth Crooks BBC Team of the Week after his goal against Watford at the weekend but Crooks still managed to make himself sound like an ill-informed arse.
LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 03: Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang of Arsenal celebrates after scoring his sides fourth goal with teammates during the Premier League match between Arsenal and Everton at Emirates Stadium on February 3, 2018 in London, England. (Photo by Michael Regan/Getty Images)

3 in: Arsenal savaged despite dominating BBC Team of the Week

Aaron Ramsey, Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang have been named in the BBC's team of the week.
Leicester City winger Riyad Mahrez.

2 reasons why not: Pundits question why Arsenal aren’t in for Mahrez

Pundits are struggling to understand how Riyad Mahrez looks set to stay at Leicester after yet another transfer window.

Crooks: Alexis will leave Arsenal if Ozil does

Garth Crooks believes Mesut Ozil leaving Arsenal would guarantee Alexis Sanchez parting company too, which could affect the Gunners' chances of a top-four finish.

Crooks: Tottenham would appreciate Özil much more than Arsenal

Garth Crooks says Mesut Özil should be playing for Tottenham, because their fans would appreciate the Arsenal and Germany playmaker more.

Kolasinac named in 3 Teams of the Week

Sead Kolasinac obviously impressed pundits with his performance against Swansea on Saturday because he's been named in a few people's Team of the Week.

Crooks: Arsenal fans in denial about Harry Kane

Garth Crooks feels there are still Arsenal fans in denial about Harry Kane's quality, due to him being a Tottenham Hotspur player.

Garth Crooks claims Arsenal fans are in denial about Harry Kane

Garth Crooks believes that Arsenal fans are in denial about Harry Kane's quality on the pitch.

Garth Crooks calls Sead Kolašinac a “brick toilet”

Sead Kolašinac has had plenty of nicknames since joining Arsenal from Schalke this summer, but his latest from Garth Crooks may be the strangest yet.

Crooks thinks Lemina should be playing for Arsenal or Liverpool

Garth Crooks is mystified why Southampton midfielder Mario Lemina isn't playing for Arsenal or Liverpool. 

Fans annoyed by Garth Crooks’ comments

Arsenal supporters weren't happy with BBC pundit Garth Crooks after he made a number of comments about Danny Welbeck and the Gunners' strike-force.

BBC man tells Mesut Ozil to leave Arsenal for Tottenham

BBC Garth Crooks calls for Mesut Ozil to leave Arsenal and join Tottenham
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Ozil & Sanchez make TOTW as Crooks calls for Ozil to join Tottenham

Garth Crooks has named Alexis Sanchez and Mesut Ozil in his Team of the Week, continuing his tradition of picking mostly players who were on the TV.
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Garth Crooks compares Chelsea’s Moses to Arsenal’s Lauren

Garth Crooks believes that the only player who has ever transitioned to the position of wing-back as smoothly as Chelsea's Victor Moses has, was Lauren.

Two Arsenal players make Team of the Week – but no Oxlade-Chamberlain

Garth Crooks has named Gabriel and Nacho Monreal in his team of the week that is filled mostly by players he watched on the TV this weekend.

Courtois makes Team of the Week for performance against Arsenal

Arsenal may well have gone down without so much of a whimper, but Garth Crooks believes that Thibaut Courtois had such a good game he deserved to be his Goalkeeper of the Week.
Arsenal team of the week

Arsenal dominate BBC Team of the Week

After moaning recently about Garth Crooks Team of the Week because he wasn’t picking Arsenal players, this week I’m going to complain because he did.
Arsenal team of the week

Zero Arsenal players in BBC Team of the Week despite better performances

Garth Crooks has picked not one single Arsenal player from this weekend’s action in his Team of the Week, which is fair enough, but did Spurs really deserve four?
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TOTW madness as random Arsenal player included but Mirror blanks them all

If there’s one thing we can all agree on it’s that Arsenal battered Chelsea, so it’s somewhat surprising to see Petr Cech, who faced only two on-target shots in 90 minutes, included in Garth Crooks BBC Team of the Week.
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Koscielny in BBC TOTW but Cazorla omitted for Liverpool midfielder with lower rating

Garth Crooks left Santi Cazorla out of his BBC Team of the Week despite him outscoring Adam Lallana according to whoscored.com.

Garth Crooks: Alexis is the player Arsenal can rely on

Full-time complainer, part-time pundit Garth Crooks has said that he reckons Alexis Sanchez is the only player in the Arsenal squad worthy of winning...

Garth Crooks attacks Mike Dean after Gabriel red

Former Tottenham Hotspur player Garth Crooks hit out at Mike Dean on Saturday afternoon after the referee sent Gabriel off at Stamford Bridge. The BBC pundit...