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Prodigal sons: When Bukayo Saka scored the opening goal during the Uefa Champions League match between Arsenal and PSV Eindhoven, the team did not look like it had spent six seasons in the wilderness. Photo: Charlotte Wilson/Offside/Getty Images
ARSENAL FC

Gunners are back with a bang

Is Kgosientsho Ramokgopa an undercover Gunner?

  • Paddy Harper
4 min read
Undead: Democratic Alliance leader John Steenhuisen. Photo: Waldo Swiegers/Getty Images
ARSENAL FC

A song and dance about nothing

Julius Malema is no Barry White, but the United Nations won’t stop him singing

  • Paddy Harper
4 min read
Former public enterprises minister Malusi Gigaba
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

Young Lions no longer roaring as ANC Youth League congress teeters

Former presidents were reinvited to the youth league congress after the ANC forked out money for their lunch

  • Paddy Harper
4 min read
Preordained: Gabriel Jesus scores against Leeds. His early return after injury is somewhat miraculous. Photo: Shaun Botterill/Getty Images
ANC

The second coming of Jesus for Arsenal’s Premier League hopes

A footballing three days and three nights in a cave don’t appear to have affected the striker’s performance

  • Paddy Harper
4 min read
Cantankerous: Julis Malema argues with police at the presidential guest house in Pretoria. Photo: Emmanuel Croset/Getty Images
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

EFF marched but it was no Sri Lanka moment

Police Minister Bheki Cele and his team of officers appear to be better at arresting radials than criminals

  • Paddy Harper
4 min read
Like a candle in the wind: Eskom has turned 100 but it’s lights are hardly blazing. Photo: Getty Images
ANC

Is reticent Ramaphosa ready to reshuffle?

DD the Cat, like André de Donker, has finally got his Don’t Come Monday – which both of them had been waiting for

  • Paddy Harper
4 min read
Upsy-daisy! Arsenal’s Nicolas Pépé and Liverpool’s Virgil van Dijk in action last weekend. The Reds won 3-1. (Phil Noble/Reuters)
ALEXANDRE LACAZETTE

Derby holds up a mirror to mediocrity

Arsenal and Spurs are both stuck in the mud and which team beats the other has become arbitrary

  • Luke Feltham
3 min read
Up for the challenge: Arsenal manager Unai Emery. (Hannah McKay/Reuters)
ARSENAL FC

Will Unai Emery’s Europa League love affair conquer Chelsea?

With the pressure off Chelsea, thanks to their third-place finish, Arsenal need their manager to inspire a composed performance.

  • Luke Feltham
3 min read
Manchester City striker Sergio Aguero looks on after scoring his hat trick goal despite the efforts of Arsenal goalkeeper Bernd Leno and Laurent Koscielny. (Stu Forster/Getty Images)
ARSENAL FC

Aguero hat-trick sinks Arsenal, City close gap on Liverpool

Manchester City closed to within two points of Premier League leaders Liverpool thanks to Sergio Aguero’s hat-trick in a 3-1 win over Arsenal

  • Ian Whittell
3 min read
‘Nothing is going to change my opinion of my team. I want to focus to win the game and give a good performance, knowing the quality of the Spurs side,’ says Pep Guardiola. (Carl Recine/Reuters)
ARSENAL FC

Man City have leaders to catch Liverpool, says Guardiola

Pep Guardiola’s side goes into Sunday’s Premier League home match against Arsenal in third place, five points behind leaders Liverpool

  • Mike Whalley
3 min read
Mesut Özil and Alexis Sanchez during their Arsenal days (David Price/Getty Images)
ALEXIS SANCHEZ

Sanchez, Özil cast to sideshow as buoyant Man Utd visit Arsenal

A year on from moving to Manchester United, Alexis Sanchez has become little more than an afterthought in the Red Devils’ revival

  • Kieran Canning
3 min read
(John Silby/Reuters)
ARSENAL

Emery finds it hard to put case for Gunners defence

Typically slack Fulham defending allowed an unmarked Granit Xhaka to score from Alex Iwobi’s measured cross after 25 minutes

  • Staff Reporter
3 min read
Unai Emery believes Mohamed Salah is now among the world’s top five players. (Reuters)
ARSENAL

Salah now in Emery’s top five after PSG snub

The Gunners boss will be in opposition to the Liverpool forward when his Arsenal side face the unbeaten Premier League leaders at Anfield on Saturday

  • Agency
2 min read
Liverpool’s Xherdan Shaqiri celebrates scoring their second goal (Phil Noble/Reuters)
ARSENAL FC

Liverpool back on top as Shaqiri sinks United, Arsenal’s unbeaten run ends

Jürgen Klopp’s side made it six successive league victories thanks to Shaqiri’s late double

  • Steve Griffiths
4 min read
‘It will be a very difficult match for us because we are going to play against a good team in a good moment without having faced a backlog of matches because they are playing in the Europa League,’ said Mourinho. (Andrew Couldridge/Reuters)
ARSENAL FC

Mourinho admits top four by end of year is improbable

The United manager says if some players performed better, they could stay in touch with the top four

  • Mike Whalley
3 min read