Morning. After some less than entertaining Round of 16 games, we got a good one last night when Turkey played Austria in Leipzig. An early goal set the tone, a low corner caused problems in the box, keeper Patrick Pentz clawed the ball away, but Merih Demiral was to lash it into the roof of…

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Welcome to another Arsecast Extra, the Arsenal podcast, with myself and James from @gunnerblog. In this episode we chat about James’ trip to Glastonbury, sadly lacking in Sugababes, but eventful nonetheless, before we turn our attention to the football and Euro 2024 in particular. There’s discussion of Ronaldo’s histrionics last night, England’s performances and progression,…

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Morning, there was some good, a lot of bad, and a healthy dose of ridiculous at the Euros yesterday. So, let’s start on a positive note and focus on the good. It wasn’t France v Belgium as a contest, because that was a tedious game of football generally speaking. There were occasional moments of quality,…

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Morning, welcome to a brand new week. England are through to the quarter-finals of the Euros, but I think it’s fair to say Gareth Southgate got very, very lucky. Jude Bellingham saved his bacon with his injury time equaliser, because had that not happened, the England manager would have faced intense scrutiny about what he…

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Good morning. It was an eventful evening in Dortmund last night, with disallowed goals, thunderbolts and lightning which were very, very frightening for Michael Oliver so he took the players off the pitch, before goals from Kai Havertz and Jamal Musiala sent Germany through and Denmark home. It looked as if Germany had gone ahead…

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Good morning. My apologies for the lateness of today’s blog. It’s not my fault though, blame Mark. If he hadn’t launched his very own bourbon some time ago, and labelled it ‘Maker’s Mark’ I would have been up much earlier than I was. I’ve known a few Marks in my time, I have to say.…

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Morning all. There’s no Euro 2024 to write about and very little going in terms of substantive Arsenal news, but let’s see what bits and pieces we can dig up. It’s been reported that Declan Rice was not training with the main group ahead of England’s Round of 16 game against Slovakia on Sunday, but…

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Welcome to another episode of the Arsecast – the Arsenal podcast. In this episode I’m joined by Tim Stillman to discuss the goings-on at Euro 2024, with a fair amount of focus on England, and the Bukayo Saka debate that has been going on this week, before we chat about some lesser-fancied teams who have…

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The 14 minutes Ethan Nwaneri played at West Ham in February, with Arsenal 5-0 ahead when he entered the field, were the only Premier League, FA Cup or Champions League minutes played by any player under 21 at Arsenal last season. Charles Sagoe Jnr played for 67 minutes in the Carabao Cup tie at Brentford…

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Morning all. So we now know the fixtures for the knock-out rounds of Euro 2024 after the final group games took place yesterday. First up, Georgia beating Portugal 2-0 to go through is a fantastic achievement for them, but they’ve been something of a breath of fresh air throughout the tournament so it’s great to…

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