Good morning.
It’s Saturday and there’s an enormous sport tomorrow, however I don’t actually wish to speak about it immediately. I can’t lie and say it’s not on the very forefront of my thoughts, however I additionally must preview the sport in tomorrow’s weblog so I don’t actually wish to get into it an excessive amount of immediately.
So, that is gonna be a brief/totally different one immediately. Primarily I’m going to level you within the route of different stuff to learn and watch. First, Lewis has an awesome new ways column about how Man Metropolis arrange in opposition to us at Wembley and in subsequent video games too, and what Arsenal can attempt to do about that if it’s the identical tomorrow. The massive query is: will this be a traditional Pep Guardiola switcheroo? Everybody expects him to do one factor, however he then does one other. I suppose we’ll discover out in the end.
Over on Sky Sports activities, the at all times wonderful Nick Wright makes the case for Kai Havertz to start out up entrance on the Etihad tomorrow. This isn’t simply private choice, that is primarily based on the stats and technical degree of Kai versus Viktor Gyokeres. The Swedish striker stays an ongoing matter of dialog regardless of being our high scorer this season, however in a sport the place we completely must benefit from our possession, his lack of technical safety doesn’t seem to be the appropriate match. Maybe the choice will come right down to health greater than the rest, but when I had been choosing the staff, I’d have a look at Gyokeres as a greater possibility for the latter phases of the sport, for positive.
Again to Lewis, and yesterday he pointed me within the route of a brand new characteristic on the Premier League web site, which is an archive of all of the video games going again to its inception in 1992-93. You possibly can return, by way of it’s considerably fiddly search operate, and watch highlights of any sport from any season. Perhaps you wish to watch Mikel Arteta rating a late winner in opposition to Man Metropolis in 2012, or the complete replay of a 3-0 win there in 2010 when Metropolis had a person despatched off within the first couple of minutes (what I’d give for a repeat of that tomorrow!), or the 5-1 win at dwelling final season when Myles Lewis-Skelly received that aim and stayed so, so humble together with his celebration (some traditional Conor McNamara comms on that one too). Take your choose of any of these, or the rest that tickles your fancy!
Lastly for immediately, Elliot has a message in regards to the ongoing fundraiser for the Arsenal Basis:
A really particular replace, and a message of gratitude. ❤️
— YankeeGunner (@arsenalvisionpodcast.com) 2026-04-17T13:11:31.273Z
If you would like simply the main points, we had a aim of £200,000 to succeed in earlier than the tip of April, and as of this date and this time of writing, it at the moment stands at over £220,000. As Elliot explains within the submit above, a splendidly beneficiant donation of £150,000 continues to be to return (🙏), and who is aware of the place we’ll find yourself by the tip of the month.
Arsenal followers on-line get lots of stick, some it deserved to be honest, and you may barely transfer nowadays with out studying opinion items about our supporters, how they behave and are perceived. What I’ll say is that this, and I do suppose it’s vital: virtually all of these are primarily based on the interactions the writers see or are concerned with on Twitter and different platforms, which can be consultant of that exact part of Arsenal followers, however not Arsenal followers usually.
Yearly the communities at ArsenalVision Podcast and Arseblog come collectively and assist this fundraiser in probably the most superb approach. The generosity is unbelievable, and the consistency of their assist is mind-blowing to all of us. We dwell in a tough world, the place all the pieces will get an increasing number of costly, the price of residing is being pushed up by lunatics doing mad, pointless shit that impacts all of us, and but individuals are nonetheless ready to offer what they will to assist this good trigger.
Perhaps it’s simply me, however I really feel like that facet of ‘Arsenal followers’ is way extra worthy of point out than individuals who spend all day combating with followers of different golf equipment, random blue tick wankers, and even different Arsenal followers on the worst web site on the earth. I get it although, it doesn’t actually create the identical sort of engagement, however subsequent time somebody bleats off about our fanbase, please keep in mind that – on this slice of the Web not less than – these criticisms don’t apply within the slightest.
Lastly lastly, which I promise is the ultimate lastly, we have now a deep dive in tomorrow’s sport on our Patreon preview podcast which is out now. Do not forget that in April Arseblog will donate each penny of our Patreon income to good causes, and on high of the €25,000 donation we made to the fundraiser, we’ll announce particulars of additional donations subsequent week. If you wish to join even a month, you get immediate entry to this pod and all our Patreon content material, and also you’ll know that subscription goes to assist individuals who actually, really want it.
It prices $6 monthly plus gross sales tax if that’s relevant in your nation, and you are able to do it at patreon.com/arseblog.
Have an awesome Saturday of us, again tomorrow for the large one. I can really feel the nerves already.
