I’M REALLY looking forward to Arsenal’s first home game of the season this weekend. 

Of course it’s because of the apparent resurgence of the Gunners under Mikel Arteta. And the fact that the squad is once again populated by hungry youngsters and exacting elders, with the prospect of an exciting campaign ahead. 

Which is great, even for a curmudgeon such as myself, because Arteta has done a remarkable job in turning around a previously moribund squad full of has-beens and never will bes, along with turfing out those individuals too lazy to care, full of toxic self-entitlement or both.