A fixture that only Skysports will be able to tell you why they decided to schedule it for today, as opposed to yesterday or Monday but there we go.


The Havertz in midfield experiment has to end, it didn’t work last season and it’s not working now. The fact that we looked better simply by bringing Merino on, tells you how ineffective we are playing him there


Play Rice at 6, Partey at 8 and Calafiori at left back. Then play Jesus on the right, Martinelli/Trossard on the left and Havertz up front. There’s no need to complicate things.


After the miserable failure that saw us win 5 games in 11 and give succour to a Liverpool team we should have beaten comfortably at the Emirates, pretty much every game from here on out is a must win. In a fair world Arteta’s job would be on the line, and online imbeciles wouldn’t be showing our calendar year form as if it’s anything more than a curious statistic.


But we don’t, so we have to put up with him even if the looming humiliation does come to pass. But we should still make every effort to make sure it doesn’t