Football Rolling

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,…

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,…

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…

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…

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.…

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…