Good morning, and completely happy Friday to you all. It’s a quiet morning, so this can be a brief weblog.
Mikel Arteta will meet the press a bit in a while forward of our sport in opposition to Southampton tomorrow. There is likely to be one or two damage points now we have to consider however he’ll say ‘We are going to see within the subsequent 24 hours’ about whoever is unsure, after which we’ll wait till Saturday to seek out out the reality. In contrast to Tom Cruise, I can deal with the reality.
One factor is for positive, there received’t be a shock return for Martin Odegaard who is just not in Norway’s squad for the upcoming internationals. Some feedback from their supervisor have sparked a little bit of concern that the skipper is likely to be sidelined for fairly some time but, however I don’t assume there’s something that stunning in what he stated. Or something which suggests it’s worse than we already thought. It was all the time understood he’d be out of motion till after this Interlull on the very earliest, so I don’t assume something has modified.
Elsewhere, Declan Rice and Bukayo Saka are named within the England squad, for video games in opposition to Greece and Finland, whereas Gabriel and Gabriel Martinelli can be away with Brazil. I don’t have the complete record of Interlull absentees handy, however we’ll kind that out in a put up over on Arseblog Information within the subsequent short while.
In a Champions League week, I can say I get pleasure from a few of the clips from the CBS Golazo present during which Thierry Henry sits alongside Jamie Carragher and Micah Richards, brilliantly anchored by Kate Scott (previously Abdo). However I additionally totally loved David Squires tackle the entire thing within the Guardian.
With the return of Aaron Ramsdale when Southampton go to tomorrow, this Reddit put up made me snigger.
In the meantime, long-awaited – and I do realise they’re long-awaited – updates to the Arseblog apps for iOS and Android are nearing completion. That is notably excellent news as a result of Google made some arbitrary adjustments through the week which implies the outdated model of the app isn’t on the Play Retailer anymore. Apologies to anybody who has modified telephone lately, and is seeking to obtain it, it’s not there.
Nevertheless, new variations can be going out to beta-testers imminently, and can hopefully be on normal launch within the subsequent week or so. Within the meantime, in the event you’re lacking your Arseblog repair on cell, simply go to the positioning in Safari or Chrome, and make somewhat desktop shortcut. The websites are absolutely optimised for cell, and you will get at them with only a click on, or a push or a poke or a finger or nonetheless you name what we do with telephones. It’s not a click on since you don’t click on something, until you’re some sort of jazz man clicking your fingers and hitting the display on the identical time. If that’s you, you’re in all probability all hopped up on goofballs anyway, so that you wouldn’t be capable of get the house display widgets sorted within the first place.
Anyway, they’re coming quickly, I promise! And when that occurs, that can imply the final little bit of promoting on Arseblog and Arseblog Information can be gone … perpetually. There are some legacy advert placements within the outdated apps, however they’ll be gone within the new ones. It implies that your studying expertise can be utterly clear, and if that’s one thing you respect perhaps test us out on Patreon.
In addition to supporting all the pieces we do on Arseblog, together with our regularly increasing protection of Arsenal Girls, you get all types of additional stuff for simply $6 a month. And in a world the place costs are rising for all the pieces on a regular basis, ours hasn’t gone up since we launched in 2018. Should you’d prefer to know a bit extra about our Patreon, what we do, and what you get – learn right here.
Should you’d like to enroll, it’s patreon.com/arseblog – the place you’ll get yourselves a Southampton preview podcast a bit in a while this afternoon.
For now, have an amazing day.