Hello and good morning. I'm back, and big thanks to Tom and Andrew for holding the fort. It was a pretty busy few days on the Arsenal front, so I'm all caught up, and of course we have a game tonight to contend with. The big issue is what to do at centre-half given that Sokratis has been ruled out for a month and Laurent Koscielny is likely to miss out because of his swollen, but thankfully not broken jaw sustained in the FA Cup defeat to Manchester United. It leaves us short of central defensive options, and nobody needs to be reminded that we finished the game on Friday with Shkodran Mustafi and Granit Xhaka at the back. Unai Emery appears to have a huge amount of faith in the Swiss...
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