Declan Rice’s toe gives Mikel Arteta a headache

Morning all.

The news to start the day is that Declan Rice’s absence from our midweek trip to Milan was due to a broken toe. Mikel Arteta said ‘foot injury’ in the build-up, but having gone through that song about one thing being connected to another thing, I can confirm toes are part of feet.

I’ve seen a lot of speculative reporting, about how he is ready to ‘play through the pain’ for both Arsenal and England, and I’ll admit I think 50% of that is admirable, and 50% of it is ridiculous.