Two huge outliers this season - a great attack with a good defence, and a great defence with a good attack. I wonder what would happen if they played each other?

There is nothing that can make you feel a million years old, and also like a 7 year old, like watching Top of the Pops from 1998!

I’ve found it a tremendous opportunity- if you send me a Black Friday email, and I don’t want to buy from you, I hit unsubscribe. I’ve lost 50+ companies this week

Just the former editor of the JC saying that anti-semitism is fine, actually, as long as you did it a while ago.

This is how the Mail has covered a 70% fall in net migration. The Government should stop kidding itself it will ever get credit for being anti-migration. They could cut numbers to zero and there would still be front pages blasting them for making the UK a socialist wasteland no one wants to come to

HAHAHA! They're going off with 3 runs required! Like, it's obviously too wet to play, but you can't go off now! What a ridiculous sport

This is a real challenge for the teams and the umpires. It's wet enough that the batter is hiding her bat under her shirt between overs, you shouldn't be out there playing. But coming off now is denying a team a result they would definitely get. And evern playing a 5-over game is a bit silly.

The amount of people who just want to suck all the joy out of football is so aggrivating. Every Arsenal fan is keenly aware that titles aren’t handed out in November. But we’re watching our team blossom into something truly special. So yeah, we’re gonna enjoy it. So kindly fuck off.

'Arsenal played a triple pivot of Zubimendi and two Declan Rices' is a great line from this. Yes, it's not actually much use being the best team in the world in November. But it's quite nice to be the best team in the world, at any point. Not long ago, that felt like it would never happen again.

The Labour government said they would massively cut immigration. They have succeeded. The people who hated them, still hate them. The national conversation is still entirely about immigration, and completely toxic. Completely foreseeable, completely foreseen.

Inter and Spurs both lose when faced with tougher opposition. But maybe PSV (and Arsenal) are just good?

The guy sitting next to me described him as a wasp - constantly buzzing around, annoying and carrying a hell of a sting!

Immigration creates jobs, supports public services, & drives growth. These are economic facts. How is it that the only days we *dont* have the media banging on about immigration is on the days we’re handed the budget? #r4today

Our conversation about immigration is framed entirely on Nigel Farage’s terms. Labour has completely capitulated the ground to the far right, the racism & the hate. We no longer have a conversation AT ALL about how we need immigration & when we cut it, we pay the price. #r4today

Arsenal have played 19 games so far this season in all competitions. They have won 16, drawn two & lost just one. They have kept 13 clean sheets, failed to score in only one game, netted 42 goals & conceded just seven. And all this despite having between three and seven players out simultaneously.

Gabriel Martinelli now has 11 goals in European competition for Arsenal, bringing him level with Dennis Bergkamp, Robert Pires and John Radford. #ARSBAY

Harry Kane didn't attempt a single shot against Arsenal tonight.

Full time analysis

40% possession leading to 2.72 xG and 8 big chances. Right now there’s no way we can’t play.

Utterly excellent from the Arsenal. Shade the first half, then took Bayern apart second half. You win nothing in November, but my word, this team is very, very good right now

Chanting "Are you Tottenham in disguise?" at a Bayern side who were top of the Champions League going into this game, and were unbeaten in all comps thus far... statement made. Second half as good as any this season. 💪 #ARSBAY #COYG #UCL

If you look up "perfect pass" in the dictionary, there's a highlight of that ball from Ebere Eze to Gabriel Martinelli.

Would like to point out that Gabriel Martinelli was the player who mopped up the ball just outside the Arsenal box when they crowded Olise off it. And then he TOOK OFF. Up the pitch like he'd been shot out of a cannon.

Gabriel Martinelli has scored in each of his last four Champions League matches. #ARSBAY

Ok, there are subs that work, and then there’s that! Cala’s first touch, madueke’s first touch on the right!

Saka off is a great shout. He looks tired, and this game isn’t the priority

These are never ever given. Except that one time for spurs against us

Should’ve taken advantage while we were ahead and on top, it felt comfortable at that point but we were clearly *too* comfortable. I don’t really feel the stakes of a CL game against Bayern, the League Phase definitely dials down the tension.

Strange half. No intensity, on the field and in the stands, compared to Sunday. We’ve let them have plenty of possession, but very few chances - then got completely cut open for the goal. Saka really off the pace, which is a concern, but otherwise mostly fine given the opposition

Can’t get too upset about this, but having missed a great chance for 1-0, it’s a poor goal to concede defensively. Can’t lose concentration in games like these, and the intensity isn’t really there

Former Arsenal defender Pascal Cygan says he intends to send a signed jersey to Zohran Mamdani after being name-checked by the newly elected New York City mayor during an interview on the Adam Friedland show this week. More from @adamcrafton.bsky.social 🔗 www.nytimes.com/athletic/684...

I know it’s different for CL, but that is far too early for North London Forever

Fun fact: Bayern's starting lineup at the Emirates tonight contains as many London-born players as Munich-born.

I went one or two changes, and it’s two - MLS fully expected, and Mosquera makes sense. But that bench is beginning to look tasty

Exactly this. This is as low stakes as a big game can get. Just one to enjoy

Max Dowman is ridiculous.

Max Dowman has just scored the silliest, most brilliant goal. Clearly too good for this level, which is mad considering his age!

Last time I played I pulled my groin setting off for a quick single. My wife has since banned me from playing. Still umpire 20-50 games a season...

All I want is to pay 1% more tax so people who need social care get it. People with kids are able to contribute by having affordable childcare. That kids are able to attend fully staffed and well maintained schools. These things don't affect me directly but as a country, it for the greater good.

I only heard about this from the Telegraph's incredibly snooty review (have they ever liked anything on TV?). It was a great watch. Probably gets quite samey if they do it again, but as a one-off... enjoyed it a lot

That is a quite magnificent way to seal a quite magnificent test and series win! Well played South Africa

Nitish Kumar Reddy bowled ten wicketless overs and scored ten runs batting at 7 and 9. In going to say that wasn’t an inspired selection

India have 'drawn' Pakistan in the group stage India have the final group game, meaning that they'll go into that game knowing what's required in terms of run rate When did both those things last happen? What are the odds? www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricke...

It's weird, I've had a BBC push notification about a crime, but it didn't say the perpetrator's nationality... I wonder where they're from?

This is going to be put on many walls, I suspect. What a fabulous frame!

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

That’s a fantastic goal. But also, it weirdly felt like it had been coming - Everton carrying the bigger attacking threat since going down to 10

Let’s just say if Bruno Guimaraes did that, it would be considered not sufficiently violent for a red card

Can VAR look at that? Because while Gueye lost his head, there’s nothing in that that’s red card worthy!