Good morning from London, the place you’ll be glad to listen to my trousers are neatly folded immediately.
I’ll come to final evening in a second, however immediately begins with the sport afterward. Newcastle are on the town and it’s a giant one which means one thing when it comes to how we end this season. They’ve been a ache for us 3 times, and a few payback for that’s overdue. Therefore, I believe Mikel Arteta will decide the strongest facet accessible to him.
Mikel Merino is suspended following his pink card at Anfield final week, so assuming Leandro Trossard is match sufficient, he ought to begin up entrance, and hopefully Declan Rice is able to go once more in midfield after lacking the journey to Liverpool. Past that, the one different subject I can envisage is Jurrien Timber who didn’t participate within the midweek coaching session, however when the choice to fill in is Ben White, you’re hardly right down to brass tacks.
Even when this season feels over, you may ensure that gained’t be the message within the Arsenal dressing room, and particularly not the Newcastle one. They’ll go above us with a win immediately, and that will likely be an enormous motivation for them, so we’re going to need to be switched on totally this afternoon. Previously the supervisor has opted to take care of their bodily energy by selecting a barely extra technical crew and hoping the PGMOL don’t enable their gamers to elbow our lads within the head and get away with it, however immediately I believe he’s going to lean into the necessity to compete bodily (in addition to hoping the PGMOL don’t enable their gamers to elbow our lads within the head and get away with it).
Hopefully Kai Havertz could make the bench and provides us an alternative choice for the latter phases of the sport if we’d like it, however I hope by the point he comes on – if he comes on – this can be a sport that’s with none jeopardy and we’re properly forward. That’s to not take something without any consideration, it’s simply what I’d actually wish to see, and I hope we are able to simply be a bit ruthless immediately. We’re overdue a win, it’s the final dwelling sport of the season, and it might be good to exit with a little bit of a bang. And no matter how meaningless some individuals would possibly view it, I believe there’s some significance in ending second and never being overtaken proper on the finish.
I’m clearly going to be there immediately, however we could have all the same old protection on the dwell weblog and the post-game stuff on Arseblog Information too.
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So, we had our dwell podcast final evening at Union Chapel, and as ever it was a unbelievable evening, and beautiful to see so many individuals there. There’s a sort of affirmation in actual life interactions that’s actually necessary, and whereas we’re all very clearly on-line (as a result of how else do you get podcasts and blogs and stuff?), it’s simply nice to be round so many Arsenal followers, each for the present and to speak and meet afterwards.
I believe I managed to speak to everybody I presumably might, but when I missed you I apologise, it was fairly busy within the bar upstairs afterwards! With James, Elliot, Clive, Paul and Tim alongside you, it makes all the things simpler and higher so whereas I’m certain they already understand how a lot I like them and respect them, it’s value placing it down in print too.
We have been additionally very pleased to have a particular visitor for a couple of minutes, and I’m certain you’ll most likely have already seen that Mikel Arteta took a while from his busy day to show up and say due to followers who helped the ArsenalVision fundraiser generate over £360,000 for the Arsenal Basis this yr. It was final minute, it was very high secret, and I can’t lie, I used to be fairly nervous to ask him a few fast questions however I believe it went okay!
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— Tom (@thomas-j-powell.bsky.social) 2025-05-18T07:08:34.144Z
I can’t say for certain, however I don’t suppose he had any actual concept of what he was turning as much as. I’m fairly certain dwell podcasts aren’t actually a part of his life, however the reception he acquired was superb. All of us have our points and our criticisms in the case of soccer, however for me it’s been clear from day one which Mikel Arteta actually cares deeply concerning the membership and bringing the sort of success all of us need. That was 100% mirrored in how he was acquired by a packed home at Union Chapel. A very particular second, and due to these behind the scenes who helped make it occur.
The total present is out there now for Patreon members, after which we’ll have a model out on YouTube within the subsequent couple of days for everybody. Proper, I’m gonna go away it there, hopefully the boys can do the enterprise immediately and possibly I’ll see a few of you round this afternoon. Say hello!
Come on you reds!
