Good morning.
Nicely, you exit for one succulent Italian meal on a Sunday afternoon, and the Premier League goes Supervisor-Firing-Loopy. First up, Brendan Rodgers bought canned by Leicester by mutual consent, and you possibly can see that one coming. They had been overwhelmed by a late Crystal Palace aim on Saturday, and are very a lot within the relegation dogfight.
The factor about Rodgers is that on the enterprise finish of the season, he’s not nice. Leicester completely ought to have completed within the Champions League locations a few occasions, however blew it proper on the loss of life. So, you’ll be able to perceive why the choice makers there won’t belief him to place collectively the run of video games they should keep away from the drop. Nonetheless, he received them an FA Cup, permitting him so as to add to the gathering of images of himself in his home. Within the downstairs rest room there’s an image of an image of him within the entrance corridor holding the well-known outdated trophy, and when you look fastidiously on the body it’s made up of tiny illustrated Brendans, their gleaming gnashers sparking like jewels on a film star’s frock.
Then Chelsea sacked absolutely the shit out of Graham Potter. On the one hand, you’ll be able to have some sympathy for a supervisor who arrives at a membership the place the proprietor thinks shopping for gamers is like shopping for pints in the direction of the tip of the night time. It should make it troublesome to seek out any type of cohesion when each time you go searching there’s a startled trying younger man pondering ‘How within the title of all that’s holy did I find yourself right here?!’, whereas Bernie Madoff shoots you a wink and says ‘There’ll be one other three within the morning’.
However although, it’s Chelsea so when you select to go work there you get what you deserve. Which in Potter’s case, if he’s sensible, will probably be tens of tens of millions of kilos to bugger off and never need to cope with all of the nonsense that membership perpetrates just by current. They are going to in all probability rent Julian Nagelsmann now, he’s bought the look of a Chelsea supervisor, till such time as they Chelsea the bollix off him and pay him a fortune to get misplaced too.
I suppose I ought to say given what’s occurred so usually to us with the brand new supervisor bounce, the one shock is that the Premier League haven’t introduced our subsequent fixture is in opposition to a mixed Leicester/Chelsea XI, managed by Sam Allardyce. I assume we must always rely our blessings.
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For some extra on our 4-1 win over Leeds, Jon has a By the numbers for you over on Arseblog Information.
And what a win yesterday for Arsenal Ladies, coming from a aim all the way down to beat Man Metropolis 2-1. A cracking aim from Katie McCabe was the winner, and when you think about she left the Emirates on crutches and in a protecting boot on Wednesday night time, that tells you a lot about her.
She advised Tim afterwards:
“The foot wasn’t in a great way on Wednesday, it was completely rattled however our medical workforce have finished an unbelievable job on the short turnaorund.
“My foot has been in ice for the final 4 days attempting to get the swelling down. It’s nicely padded up but it surely nonetheless works! You possibly can truly see the opening within the boot from the stud.”
The sport away to Man Utd on April twenty second is now an actual crunch encounter on the subject of the title.
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A superb thread from Andrew highlighting the plight of Wall Road Journal journalist and large Arsenal fan, Evan Gershkovich, who has been detained in Russia.
You’ll have seen a narrative this week a couple of Wall Road Journal reporter arrested in Russia on espionage costs.
His title is Evan Gershkovich. He is 31. He grew up in New Jersey. He is an enormous soccer fan.
And a large Gooner.
(He is on the left sporting that horrible Puma equipment) pic.twitter.com/FW8KLxUjI4
— Andrew Allen (@AAllenSport) April 2, 2023
Right here’s some extra on him and his scenario.
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I’m additionally happy to announce that I’m becoming a member of forces with my associates on the ArsenalVision Podcast to lift funds all through April for the Arsenal Basis and their work on the Za’atari refugee camp in Jordan. Za’atari is among the largest refugee camps on this planet, with greater than 80,000 folks calling the camp residence, and over half of them are kids. These kids face unimaginable challenges together with threats of gender-based violence, baby labor and baby marriage.
The Teaching for Life program, run by Arsenal with the assistance of Save the Kids, offers these younger folks an area the place they are often kids once more. They’ll play, and construct friendships, and most significantly, develop the life abilities they should forge a greater future for themselves and their households.
Should you donate something to the fundraiser, you might have an opportunity to win issues VIP tickets to the Brighton recreation – watching from the field the place the Adrian Clarke and the crew do the Breakdown Dwell present; a signed shirt by Ian Wright and plenty extra. Extra importantly although, you’re serving to the inspiration – which is totally funded by donations – proceed the superb work they do.
Arseblog will – as we did this time final yr – donate each single penny of our Patreon revenue for the month of April to the fundraiser too. Should you really feel like you’ll be able to spare something, the hyperlink to the JustGiving web page is right here: https://www.justgiving.com/web page/arsenalvision
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Lastly for immediately, I need to ship congratulations to James and his spouse Camille who welcomed a child boy to their household this weekend. How he’ll stay neutral on the Arsecast Further when this younger man makes his debut up entrance at 17 years of age is a priority for me, however I assume it’s a bridge we will cross once we come to it.
Should you haven’t already seen James’ Instagram publish, it actually is beautiful. Wishing all three of you all of the love and happiness there may be. And a bit additional as a result of why not?!
❤️
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There will probably be an Arsecast Further this morning, however clearly not with James who’s allowed a little bit of day off! Control Twitter for the decision for questions, and the reveal of who immediately’s stand-in host will probably be.
We’re recording round 9am so it ought to be quickly (it’s now 6.51am).
Till then.
