Arsenal Times – Interlull enjoyable

By Jonny Kipper
October 12 2025

I’ve most likely aggravated individuals on right here with my speak about Olivier Giroud over the previous few weeks. It’s a shame often because Arsenal are doing very effectively, and there is fairly just a few present gamers who deserve my reward. Some would possibly argue that I spend an excessive amount of time previously, re-living the glory days of Giroud which you might argue weren’t all that superb. I stated you may argue this, not that you simply’d be proper.

And to this, allegations that I spend an excessive amount of time previously, I say honest sufficient. Genuinely. No complaints. It’s true that I speak an excessive amount of concerning the previous in an Arsenal context. So to place this proper we’ll speak about this very day. We’re going to speak about October 12. Yep. October 12 in 1996 when Arsene Wenger took cost of his first-ever recreation as Arsenal supervisor.

It was a 2-0 victory away to Blackburn Rovers, with Ian Wright scoring each objectives – an exquisite brace, maybe bettered solely by the double Giroud scored in an FA Cup win over Middlesbrough in 2015.

We know Wright scored the 2 objectives, however 11 different gamers took half in Wenger’s debut recreation – only one sub, oddly – and as an international-break teaser, go forward and see in the event you can identify the opposite gamers within the first XI and the substitute.

Googling is forbidden.