Spoke to Ben White after Arsenal’s win over Everton: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Hunger for an England recall 😢 Tears after his knee injury in May 🏡 Wanting be at Arsenal forever 🔁 Benefit of rotating with Timber 👇🏻 thesun.co.uk/sport/40806403/…

🤕 “Saka DIVES all over the place... the minute he looks like losing possession, he’s down!” 🚫 “Anyone who simulates a foul is a CHEAT!” Graeme Souness calls Arsenal winger Bukayo Saka a “cheat” for going down too easily... 📺 youtu.be/flpiWmEZyEQ @piersmorgan

Six-time French champions Bordeaux, sanctioned in the summer for financial irregularities, will play in the sixth tier of French football this season, the Nouvelle-Aquitaine league confirmed on Thursday. Over to you, Premier League....

I watched the F1 film with Brad Pitt the other day, and there’s a moment where his character asks to add something to the car that isn’t really in the rules. The FIA punishes it, but the team can still race with the earlier car. It made me think. In F1, the best teams live at the edge of the regulations. Sometimes the FIA allows what they’ve found, and sometimes it says that goes too far. Occasionally the rules are rewritten afterwards. Now, City. I’m not defending them. A commission found they entered into sham agreements and broke the spending limits. A sham is an arrangement that isn’t what it claims to be, so that’s a different thing from using a gap nobody had spotted. City deny it and will appeal. But I find it useful to ask/reflect on how people inside the club see it. From their point of view, PERHAPS they believe they were doing what elite competitors do: looking at the rules, finding the limits, challenging interpretations and moving faster than the regulatory system. From the outside, you might look at that and say, “That’s cheating.” From inside the organisation, they might say, “We found something nobody had thought of.” If you believe you’ve found a way to bring money in, more or less within the rules (and the commission said it was not in the rules and it was cheating), you might tell yourself you’re just being a sharp competitor. We are all asking “did City cheat?”. But I find this question interesting too: “how did City come to believe they weren’t?” And understanding a mindset, or trying to, isn’t excusing it.

Forward together. Mikel Arteta is here to stay ❤️

🗣️Former #Arsenal man Willian says he should have never left Chelsea for Arsenal: “I met them couple of times. I met Arteta, I met everyone there. And they said ‘we want you to be the main guy’. Arteta said to me: ‘We’re going to play like this and I want you to be the main guy, I will build the team around you, I want to give you the key to the club’. “When I heard that, obviously I love Chelsea but I was in the last year of my contract, I was 32, and I was thinking three more years in London, stay with my family in London, they love London. And then I decided. “To be honest I should have stayed but at that moment I was thinking maybe the best solution is to go there, and I signed for three years there but it was not good. “I got frustrated from that because when I was there I saw some situations that I said to myself, it’s not going to change. But it didn’t work and because of that I couldn’t play well or perform because I wasn’t happy. When you are not happy you cannot perform. Money cannot buy happiness. It was the best contract of my life there, but I wasn’t happy.”