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Top Of The League FC becomes Top At Christmas FC

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Morning Top Of The League FC. Or as we are now called: Top At Christmas FC.

It was Played No One Decent FC, then Collapse In October FC. After a draw away to Southampton it was Burnout FC. But here we are, going into the World Cup, top of the league.

What will be next? My bet is “Arsenal haven’t played Man City or Newcastle” or “they will collapse after the World Cup.

But let’s ignore the naysayers and just enjoy our Christmas dinners!

We have turned a brilliant pre-season into a brilliant start to the season. It is more than any of us could have hoped.

I still do not expect us to win the title. Very few Arsenal fans can say they are confident about us being Champions. Opposing fans will try and paint a different picture, that we need to be humbled. But the reality is we are just enjoying having a competitive team again.

We are too and we deserve to be there.

There has not really been a game that we have won that we didn’t deserve too (victory over Leeds the only one that gets close). We have not had those Spurs games where they have been behind, and just scrapped through.

And in the two games we dropped points, we can point to being on the wrong side of refereeing decisions (no penalty against Southampton and opening goal wrongly disallowed against Man U).

Opponents will point to the Liverpool game (when the referee got everything right) as an example of when we got favourable decisions. And Sky are trying to paint a narrative of us being lucky having spent half-time Saturday and 10 minutes after full time bitterly debating a possible penalty that was offside anyway.

We now have a little break for the winter World Cup.

Whilst people might think it will damage our momentum, I think it will have the opposite effect.

Just 10 Gooners will be going.

Over the 10, Bukayo Saka, Granit Xhaka, Thomas Partey, Takehiro Tomiyasu and Matt Turner are the only guaranteed starters. Gabriel Jesus and William Saliba are both 50/50 to start.

Of those 7, Tomiyasu, Xhaka and Partey will probably struggle to make the knockout stages, meaning they will be back with Arsenal in the first week of December.

Saka, Saliba and Jesus are the only candidates to be playing for their country come through quarter finals, and you would expect almost everyone back by the end of the semi-finals (14 December).

That will mean Mikel Arteta should be ready to face West Ham on Boxing Day with the majority of the squad having had at least 12 days without a game. We should be nicer rested.

A Boxing Day visit from West Ham is followed by a New Years Eve trip to Brighton. We then have a tricky period of Newcastle (H), Spurs (A), Manchester United (H) and Everton (A).

If we are still top of the league after the first 6 games back, then I might start believing.

In other news, Tony Adams was knocked out of Strictly last night.

Rumours are he had the votes that guaranteed him being through, but a “hamstring injury” meant he was likely to pull out. That led producers to make the decision to put him in the dance off, ignoring the vote. We can be proud of getting him so far!

Enjoy being top!

Keenos

Tony Adams on Strictly – Voting is OPEN

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It’s half time in the Wolves game, and voting has opened on Strictly.

We are all either buzzing as we are ahead and set to lead the league going into the World Cup.

Or we are frustrated as it’s a draw; or angry as we are heading to defeat.

But whatever your mindset, and no matter if you are in the ground, in a pub or sitting on your sofa, take 2 minutes to give Mr Arsenal your 3 votes.

So how do you vote?

Firstly, make sure you are registered on the BBC Website (if you are already registered, just sign in and head over to the Strictly homepage).

You only need to register once and you will stay signed in on the device you registered with unless you choose to sign out.

Once you are signed-in, head over to the Strictly homepage.

When the vote is open, it will appear at the top of the Strictly homepage. If you can’t see it, try refreshing the page.

To cast your votes, select Tony & Katya, click the ‘plus (+)’ icon next to their name so that a ‘3’ appears in the box between the ‘plus (+)’ and ‘minus (-)’ buttons.

Finally, click ‘Submit 3 Votes’ at the bottom and you would have now voted for Adams 3 times.

So lets get voting. And turn Adams from 100/1 outsides to 2022 Strictly Champion!

Keenos

Set the Alarms – Tony Needs You

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This weekend will be the toughest for Tony Adams to get through.

It has nothing to do with us being into the business end of Strictly Come Dancing, or that Tony was rough round the ages last week.

The main reason is that The Arsenal play at 7:45 tonight.

That means many of us will be in the ground, in a pub, or our thoughts elsewhere occupied. But we must not forget to vote for Tony!

At least with a 7:45 kick off, we have the vote at half-time.

By the time we have 2-3 minutes injury time, that half time whistle will blow at around 20:33 – just as voting opens. So no one really has an excuse.

But so you don’t forget, set an alarm!

We have ours set to 20:25 to enable us to post a blog and send reminders out across Twitter and Facebook.

Make sure as that whistle goes for half-time, you share the message in your WhatsApp groups and across social media.

Tony Adams continues to upset the apple cart. The Strictly faithful are crying. They are calling for him to stand down.

But he is a winner. And whilst we stand with him, he will remain in the competition.

So remember tonight, vote Tony!

Oh, also, Arsenal have a game today against Wolves. For a pre-match preview, read another blog!

Keenos