Morning all, welcome to a brand new week. It's going to be a relatively quiet one, because for the first time since the start of January we have a week between fixtures. There have been a couple of Interlull breaks, but it's only happened twice this season outside those parameters (and one of those was after the first game). The schedule picks up again after this week, and hopefully will continue to be busy as we make progress in the Europe, so that makes it a very important few days for Mikel Arteta and his staff on the training ground. The manager has often mentioned the lack of a pre-season as an issue – some of that will be physical, but part of it is implementing tactical ideas and...
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