It's EFL Cup action tonight as we face Nottingham Forest at the City Ground. There used to be a time this was a top flight fixture, but the last time the two sides met was in January 1999. It was a Premier League encounter, Martin Keown scored the only goal of the game, Remi Garde started for the Gunners, we had Fabian Caballero on the bench, and Nigel Quashie, who really should have launched his own brand of Orange Squashie, was part of the Forest side. Tonight is a chance for some of our ‘fringe' players to get a run out, and it'll be interesting to see what happens there. There's still no Olivier Giroud, so you'd have to think that's an opportunity for new signing Lucas Perez to...
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