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Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta
Toffees struggle to savour final games before heading to new stadium
Bournemouth merited their triumph over Mikel Arteta’s underwhelming Gunners who had one eye very much on their crucial Champions League clash v PSG
WHERE to start after Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal were humiliated 5-0 by Manchester City last weekend?
Inept defending, ineffective attacking, creativity lacking, a failure to work hard, no coherence, no tactical plan, no hope. It was as painful a thrashing as I have experienced, as a fan or a journalist, in 40 years of watching Arsenal.
It was so bad that a colleague in the press box asked, only half-joking, if I needed to be accompanied to the toilets at the end to prevent me from self-immolating after what I had just witnessed.
In the shadow of Heathrow and glow of Thorpe Park, a band of Arsenal loyalists have built something lasting — a grassroots club with old-school values, writes LAYTH YOUSIF
A point apiece at the Emirates with both Arsenal and Palace looking distracted by forthcoming semi-finals
