RvP Heads The Queue To The Promised Lands But Is The Grass Greener?

Managing Arsenal is a simple job, isn’t it? A squad of finely-tuned athletes, well-honed in their craft and never injured. Well, unless there is a competitive match to play. It is not as if we can blame internationals this time either. Walcott, Oxlade-Chamberlain and Koscielny have all withdrawn from their countries upcoming friendlies with the the England youngster apparently already ruled out from this weekend’s clash with Sunderland. It must be the equivalent of having a £5m Ferrari in your garage but not being able to drive it because a particular nut and bolt keeps needing to be replaced and those replacements are as knacked as the originals.
But that is the essence of the squad system, a loyalty to one another. In fact the...