I READ THE NEWS TODAY OH BOY!

Quite a lot has been going on in the football world this week. So heres your roving reporter (me) with a brief summary.

VAR:

I strongly believe that it’s main function is to create breaks in play for advertising so as to mirror American Sport. That can be it’s only function

AFC:

We had become a club, in the second half of Wenger’s reign that accepted underachievement and for the sake of misguided principles and a risk averse Board and Ownership were always a couple of players away from being contenders

Arteta:

Our squad building has been bad for some time. Our squad is bang average and when you have a bang average squad those players that you come to rely on are a mixed bag. Unpredictable players like Luiz & Xhaka become key players. Because of lack of depth Tierney gets over played. Young players like Saka & ESR are over relied upon. You see a player like Ødegaard  and realise the sort of quality you need but you also have Ceballos who is inconsistent.

Lacazette & Aubameyang are not elite strikers and in their absence you are reliant on two youngsters who have simply not had enough game time.

The fact that Arteta in his 18 months in charge as a manager who has never managed before, has beaten ManCity, Liverpool,Chelsea,Sp*rs, ManUtd, Leicester, won The Fa Cup & Charity Shield is, frankly, over achieving.

The bread and butter games are where he’s struggled.

I maintain that until he’s had at least a couple more transfer windows he can only achieve mid table with this bunch of players.

The Europa League is where all our hopes are now and if we were to get past Villarreal who knows how the season might end. win it and Arteta gets time and being in the ECL will help in bringing players in. Failure to do so and I can’t see him making it past Christmas

Super League:

Put simply it was a failed coup designed to create an NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB in football so as to replicate the American cash rich model. The long term plan was for a

• Super League Europe
• Super League Asia
• Super League Emirates
• Super League American South
• Super League America North

Those club owners involved in this scandalous idea have gone away with their tails between their legs, but, let's not kid ourselves, they will return again with another hair brained scheme to extract more money from the beautiful game.

Mourinho:

We've all seen behind the curtain of this charmless wretch and the one thing that he inevitably does is bang on about what he has won in the past. The Sp*rs fans mantra was "he's a serial winner" but of course going to Sp*rs who are a serial non winner team was always going to end in tears. Let's hope this is the last we see of him in the Premier League.

…And another thing, A lot of people going on about Arsenal not having any right to be in that so called ‘Big Six’. Lets get it right, there’s no debate about Manchester United and Liverpool but how come Manchester City’s right to be in that self appointed elite half dozen isn’t questioned in any comparisons?

Arsenal have won 13 League Titles 

Manchester City have won 6

Arsenal have won 14 FA Cups 

Manchester City have won 6

Arsenal have won 2 European Trophies 

Manchester City have won 1.

Arsenal have competed in 12 Champions Leagues Manchester City have competed in 6 Champions Leagues

No Arsenal have not won the Champions League, but guess what? Manchester City have never reached the Semi-final, which Arsenal have done twice, let alone reached the final, which Arsenal have done.

So who deserves a place most?