We’re hurtling in direction of the return of Arsenal, and I can’t wait.

Chelsea away.

Sevilla away.

Sheffield United at house.

These are three nice video games that bleed into the darkest of Arsenal months… November. Keep in mind these months below Wenger? At all times torrid for no cause. Pink playing cards, accidents, SHOCKING outcomes. Hopefully, this can be a season we transfer effectively and actually past crap traditions.

First up…

Chelsea has been in a extreme state of uncertainty for fairly some time now. They spent 1 billion on a ‘belief the method’ squad and we’re nonetheless undecided who’s going to work for them. One factor is obvious, they do have numerous expertise, so they’re NOT to be underestimated. However I believe it’s honest to say if we present up, we’ll seemingly be just a little an excessive amount of for them.

Sevilla away within the Europa Champions League shouldn’t be a consequential recreation… however we tanked towards RC Lens in our second recreation. A win isn’t crucial, however it could make everybody really feel rather less queasy about qualifying. You merely can not end exterior the highest 1 in a Europa League group that in some way managed to make it into the Champions League. It’s fairly bizarre to me that Arteta doesn’t appear to do too effectively in Europe; he’s a bit like early Wenger in that respect. However, he’s solely a teen; loads of time to be taught.

Sheffield United can be an fascinating recreation. I don’t need to say it, you don’t need me to say it, however god rattling it I’m gonna say it: We want this recreation to pump out objective distinction.

I’m a shame, and I do know I’ve disrespected the sport – however I imply it. Can’t be scraping a 1-1 to a crew that took a beastly pasting by Newcastle.

Section three of the season is a bizarre chunk – it’s 4 Premier League video games and three Cup video games. 9 factors can be superb. 10 can be nice. 12 would set us up a DREAM for the hardest run of the season: The Section 4 Christmas run.

The large conundrum we’ve is the League Cup. What to do? We play West Ham. The competitors has little or no worth in 2023, however this season, it does provide a approach for our younger and fringe gamers to get helpful minutes they won’t get within the Champions League. West Ham are additionally in Europe, so it’s not a given they’ll go all out on this one… the query is whether or not Arteta will need to do a Jose Mourinho and get the League Cup win in good and early.

The final time we received the league cup it was referred to as the Coca Cola Cup – an outrageously elite identify. That was certainly one of my first cup finals. My dad took me to see that AND WWF in the identical weekend. Sadly, that was the second I discovered the preventing wasn’t actual. Unhappy occasions. However we received a cup and that made me joyful. Wenger by no means received it. Emery didn’t do effectively in it. It’s time we defeated the cup.

I’m placing my chips in… this could possibly be our first trophy of the season. Perhaps, simply perhaps, I’ll know what a Carabou is by the top of the season.

Lastly, earlier than I’m going. It’s been wild to observe the expansion of the ladies’s recreation. The attendances at The Emirates have been outrageous. Arsenal has been trailblazers on this entrance, they deserve a lot credit score for pumping ticket promotions and getting followers into the stadium. Clearly, the product has been so good for therefore a few years, and that’s an enormous assist. What has been a very good/unhealthy factor… the recognition of the Ladies’s Arsenal has grown to the purpose the place it’s adopted the toxicity of the boys’s recreation. I couldn’t imagine the rhetoric this week when Arsenal went all the way down to Aston Villa. It was a bit embarrassing however completely hilarious when Arsenal turned it round and folks needed to begin deleting tweets. It’s a bit unhappy {that a} signal of success is when individuals just like the work soooooo a lot they add poison to the system, however right here we’re. Congrats to the crew for the win.

One enterprise side of the Ladies’s recreation I discover fascinating is the relative youthfulness of the crowds that present up. The soccer is nice, the tickets are low-cost, it’s a chance for fogeys in a cash-strapped society to provide their offspring a pleasant day trip at an incredible stadium for much less cash. In the long run, the Ladies’s recreation getting youngsters into their video games can be a boon. These youngsters will go when they’re adults, they’ll watch the video games on TV, by the Ladies’s merch, and ultimately take their very own youngsters. I’m undecided the Premier League for Males is doing anyplace close to the job with younger individuals. Common age of a season ticket holder is 43; it’s unaffordable to get youngsters into the bottom, longterm, that’s an issue. A complete technology of children that love soccer and DON’T go. That’s why getting a much bigger supporter part must be crucial. If younger individuals don’t get the stay sports activities bug, they’ll not attend when they’re 45 and might afford it. One to observe.

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