Portsmouth could start quick against the Arsenal FC But they're powerless against the unstoppable force that is set piece FC

John Mousinho Is he the south coast's answer to Jose Mourinho

I love Sundays in the kitchen... Made some dough and pizza sauce for dinner tonight, some Stroganoff to meal prep for Mon/Tue, and baked for the first time in my life - these Nigella Parmesan shortbreads are as good and easy as they sound. www.nigella.com/recipes/parm...

I don't understand this concept of leftover mince... But those stuffed cheese things look gooood

The Colombian president's comments are looking more astute by the day... A gang of paedos trying to bully the rest of the world

Jonathan as much as I love your pieces, you're absolutely wasted on sports journalism

Got two tickets club level for the Liverpool game that I can no longer go to... If anybody would like to buy them get in touch

Another stellar performance from a premier league ref, replete with completely understandable decisions, what an advertisement they are for the league, and the great game of football itself

Sometimes you give away a goal sometimes in life you just concede to a beautiful strike. Well done Junior

Well wasn't a corner but that was as inevitable as Thanos

The look on Gabriel's face after that cockup.... He's scoring off a corner today

I like the lineup, now that we've got a fuller squad seems Arteta is experimenting. Seems the game will be all about transitions and stretching the pitch with that front 3. Would've liked to see Rice as DM and Eze in his role alongside odegaard but I suppose that'd be disrespectful to Bournemouth

So... Who's running the sweepstakes for who gets injured in today's pre match sessions?

Should be thankful to Emirates for saving me hundreds over they years, as no matter how nice our kits are there is no way I can ever bring myself to wear that megalomanical evil nation's name and help them sportswash

Boehly's digging through Abramovich's old office hoping for a solution to the Maresca mess. He spots an old dusty box with faded letters reading "in case of managerial emergency break glass" Inside is just half a cigar and an old card with a phone number and two indecipherable words... Gus Hiddink

More good fortune for City after playing Africanless Sunderland. But on the plus side should help out league cup push Swings and roundabouts I guess

I think you've read me wrong mate. It's not even about the match but the constant commentary that follows Emery & Arsenal, about how we were wrong to let him go etc. Ironically I've got a lot of admiration for him, his Villa/Sevilla sides & accomplishments despite him being perennially salty to us

That's why they call him the King of Brazil....

Everything about yesterday's match. From the pregame complaints about playing us twice, to how Villa set up to time waste and dive, to the post match reactions where Emery ducked the handshake shows why Emery didn't succeed at Arsenal and PSG. He's small club mentality personified

If I've said it once I've said it a thousand times The biggest obstacle in this league is that we play Vs 12 every game while our title rivals tend to play with 12

Declan 🥲 This whole constant injury crisis thing is really getting crazy. We just can't catch a break. Hopefully hurt pride will be enough to get us through this game and then we really need him back. Not hyperbole to say he's our best player atm

Arsenal have deployed 8 different back 4 combinations in the last 8 PL matches. They’ve only had all their defensive options available for 3 weeks this season. I think most analysts have little idea and if you told them (and stripped away the badge) they’d be floored and in awe of that club.

The assistant looks uncannily like Keir Starmer here and it's weirding me out

Another win, back to the top & it’s still not good enough? Will obviously feel amazing if we win something but the building narrative of the last few years is suffocating & the relatively unfair pressure on this group of players (& the fans) is sucking a lot of the joy out of the journey.

On the city game / Dias foul. I still find it wild that the fact that City's owners invite EPL refs to Abu Dhabi where they pay them tens of thousands to ref 'charity games' is not more prominent in commentary on the state of our league/game/pgmol

What a header Ollie fair play. Guess we'll just have to sort them out ourselves

Glad Caicedo is back to wreak some havoc on Villa legs, hope they are least give them the same treatment they gave us

Alls well that ends well: *3 points against good opposition *Big Gabi back *Jesus getting better each game *Odegaard found his shooting boots Did I miss anything?

Can't wait till we go back to complaining about conceding a shot on target. These tight games are too much for my heart

Good to see Gabriel on the bench, not encouraging to see Zubi at right back Seems the past few months is a constant battle between our depth and our injury crisis

Is it just me who gets really depressed on their birthday or does it happen to everyone once you pass a certain age?

Tynewear is definitely England's second best derby. Guess we're all Sunderland today

Surprised at all the negativity online. Last night was a blast. Late winners are good for the soul, and the lore (and we seem to have a habit of them at home Vs Wolves) Otherwise was like a game of attack Vs defence - I even spotted @arsenalvisionpodcast.com in the Emirates bar

Still believing in the power of bringing on madueke Martinelli and Gyok at 70 mins. But knowing our luck and our current midfield, villa will slow the game right down and we'll struggle to stop them doing so

What a frustrating goal to concede, hopefully we can grab one back before half time. Good to see us switching up our attack a bit more

Merino getting absolutely savaged this game. One match two rule books yet again

I think that's a surprisingly good lineup given our injury crisis. Got enough starting to control the game, and enough on the bench to destroy tired legs late on. Real question will be how well Timber, Rice, Zubi and White can maintain a top level

Shaq looks like he hates his life right now

Is infantino also using perma-tan these days or has his face just become brown from all the time it spends up Donald Trump's ass What a disgrace

Wirtz is crazy talented. Give it a season or two and he's gonna be a right pain in the ass

Sunderland having the craziest season, what a wild ride for their fans can't help but be thrilled for them

Just zero consistency on what counts as a foul for either side... With PGMOL the rules are about as predictable as numberwang

Now I'm not saying that was a penalty on Merino, I'm just saying that Harry Kane built a career off being awarded those

Saw this on Reddit...

Thought I'd offer on here before putting them up on ticket exchange but anybody need 2 tickets for the Brentford game?

Anthony Taylor really stamped his terrible mark on this game from the off

Don't understand how it was only 4 mins ET, the goal kicks alone took more than that let alone the Sanchez injury.....ah well

There are a lot of lessons to be learned from today, regardless of how it finishes. Can hardly tell Chelsea are down to ten. Look forward to hearing @clivepafc.bsky.social's analysis of this one

Get in lads! Haven't celebrated a goal like that for a while

Maresca's half-time team talk.