A New Year’s Day ramble

Good morning everyone, and welcome to 2026. Here’s a quick New Year’s Day blog for you.

Things are pretty quiet from an Arsenal perspective, which is just fine by me. We did our work on Tuesday, and did it very well, so for today eyes will be elsewhere a little bit. Man City are in action later, travelling to the Stadium of Light to take on Sunderland. Can Granit Xhaka’s side do us a favour? I’m not particularly hopeful but you never know.

What lies ahead for them this weekend is a game against Chelsea...