🔥 Fire...

IN-THE-INBOX: 2-MINS

Mikel Arteta apparently lit a fire at the Arsenal training ground this week, days after barking “Fire” at a journalist at a press conference.

Entirely out of the LinkedIn motivation playbook. Jake Humphrey would be proud*.

One suspects it was actually an attempt to show the players the difference between a fire drill… and the Emirates emptying on 80 mins. 🫢

So maybe it’s no bad thing their biggest game in 20 years is an away fixture… shame it’s against Man City.

Ok, we’ve got ONE tip, SIX stats and EIGHT televised games this weekend.

*No idea if Jake Humphrey would actually be proud. Just pure speculation.

18th April 2025

1. The Big Stats: April showers for Arteta

2. The Big Tips: What do Seagulls do best? 💩

3. The Big Quote: Eggy 🤦🏽‍♂️

    

THE BIG FACTS

Pub Ammo

9️⃣ 9 out 10 players with the highest PL win percentage of all time are City players (min. 200 games).

🤬 Chelsea have received 16 yellow cards for dissent this season, the most of any team. Enzo is responsible for four of those.

🗓️ April accounts for Pep Guardiola’s best points per game average (2.51) and Arteta’s worst (1.54) in the Premier League.

🐘 Coventry City have just been promoted under Frank Lampard, and have won 99 Premier League games in their history.

🍒 Junior Kroupi became the first teenager to score 10+ goals in his debut Premier League season since Robbie Keane for… Coventry in 1999/00.

🇵🇹 Bruno Fernandes has created 106 chances in the League this season, 46 more than the next player (Declan Rice).

THE BIG TIPS

Seagulls do what they do

3 points | Brighton to win (Draw no bet) ☞ 8/11
💭 The Seagulls are the in-form side in the League with five wins in their last six games and don’t look like fading away. Spurs, meanwhile, haven’t won a game since 5th December. For this bet to lose, they’d have to break that silly streak.
 
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THE SOFA SCHEDULE

📺 SATURDAY
12:30—Brentford vs Fulham | TNT
17:30—Spurs vs Brighton | Sky
20:00—Chelsea vs Man United | TNT

📺 SUNDAY
14:00—Aston Villa vs Sunderland | Sky
14:00—Everton vs Liverpool | Sky
14:00—Nott’m Forest vs Burnley | Sky
16:30—Man City vs Arsenal | Sky

📺 MONDAY
20:00—Crystal Palace vs West Ham | Sky