Morning.
Additional to yesterday’s story linking us to Feyenoord goalkeeper Justin Bijlow, Andrew Allen did a cursory examine of his damage report. Some hours later, when he had obtained via all of it, he despatched it on to me.
It’s really nearly spectacular in a method, have a look. The sheer vary and number of issues he has injured down the years is eye-catching. What was that youngsters tune ‘Heads, shoulders, knees and toes’?! That’s his theme tune. With another bits thrown in.
.🎶‘And wrists and spleen and calves and tonsils and important organs and …’.🎶
I’ve stated earlier than I believe a part of the rationale gamers turn out to be a bit peripheral below Mikel Arteta is expounded to their damage points. I don’t know if it’s a case that he’s much less prepared to make use of them lest they turn out to be necessary after which their absence is extra acute, or if it’s a belief factor or he merely views them as weak, however there’s something to it usually.
The factor a few second alternative goalkeeper is that you simply want them to be dependable, and on the premise of this lad’s damage report, he’s something however. Additionally, my mind has already finished a factor the place each time I see his identify, I instantly consider ‘Deuce Bigalow’ and on condition that is without doubt one of the worst movies ever starring the appearing equal of Maroon5, however a lot worse, my advice to Arsenal is that we discover another person. Thanks.
There isn’t a lot else occurring from an Arsenal perspective, however the large story from yesterday was the FA charging West Ham midfielder Lucas Paqueta with ‘spot-fixing’. The cost says:
The participant has been charged with 4 breaches of FA Rule E5.1 in relation to his conduct within the membership’s Premier League fixtures in opposition to Leicester Metropolis on 12 November 2022; Aston Villa on 12 March 2023; Leeds United on 21 Might 2023; and AFC Bournemouth on 12 August 2023.
It’s alleged that he immediately sought to affect the progress, conduct, or another side of, or incidence in these matches by deliberately in search of to obtain a card from the referee for the improper objective of affecting the betting market to ensure that a number of individuals to revenue from betting.
Principally, they’re saying he intentionally obtained booked in various video games to profit those that had guess on such an eventuality.
Take a look:
Tried to search out all of the Paqueta yellows talked about within the FA cost, discovered two up to now.
That is most up-to-date one, the place he jumps up and punches the ball vs Bournemouth.pic.twitter.com/Z23cVaZHxo
— Dan Critchlow (@afcDW) Might 23, 2024
Whether or not it was the participant himself, folks near him, or different third events, stays to be seen – however these are very, very critical fees. Fairly distinct from those Ivan Toney was banned for, as a result of he by no means guess on video games by which he was enjoying. The potential ban for Paqueta if the fees are upheld may very well be as much as a life-time ban, and it’s important to assume the seriousness of which means there’s some fairly damning proof to deliver such fees within the first place.
Paqueta denies the fees. He was, in fact, linked with a transfer to Man Metropolis final summer time, and he’s most likely stuffed with remorse in the present day that the transfer didn’t undergo. Given Metropolis’s means to kick the can down the highway with regards to fees of wrongdoing, he’d have been retired a very long time by the point they ever reached any type of conclusion. Most likely with a load of medals and suitcase stuffed with asterisks, however he, like everybody else there, wouldn’t give a fish’s tit about any of that.
Okay, for some further studying this morning, Tim’s new column is about attacking risk, an attention-grabbing factor to contemplate given what number of objectives we scored final season. Have a learn.
For now, have a superb one. We’ll be posting the audio/video of our reside occasion as a podcast/YouTube factor a bit later in the present day, so preserve a watch out for that.
