Arsenal will beat Stoke City and I’m confident they will also beat Southampton.
Stoke is a gift fixture because they are 19th in the table.
A home game against the second worst team in the league is what Arsenal need right now. After an international break, they always need an easy game – and this is it.
Mark Hughes’s Southampton won 2-0 at Wigan Athletic two weeks ago but they didn’t get points for that FA Cup tie. The only team the Saints have beaten since January 31st are West Brom twice. And, as I’m sure you know, West Brom are bottom of the Premier League.
Arsene Wenger had laryngitis yesterday, so Steve Bould did the press conference.
When I got a phone call telling me this last night, I typed Steve Bould press conference into YouTube Search and there it was.
Six minutes of Bouldy, a loyal company man, fielding tame questions.
Predictably, he said little and gave nothing away.
Wenger is a control-freak who monopolises power, hates to delegate, and loves controlling the narrative and everyone on his payroll.
So I switched YouTube off after four minutes.
Bould said plenty and named his four most difficult strikers here:
http://arsenalnewsreview.co.uk/wp/steve-bould-talks-about-cantona-and-his-four-toughest-opponents/
http://arsenalnewsreview.co.uk/wp/?p=20728&preview=true