The podders look back over the festive fixtures and wonder whether Arsenal have the mentality to finish the campaign on top. Plus,will the Louis van Gaal era at Manchester United start and terminate with domestic defeats to Swansea?Welcome to the final Football Weekly of 2015, in which an under-the-weather James Richardson is joined by Paolo Bandini and Paul MacInnes to look back on all the festive fixtures and seek conclusions to draw for what lies in store for the moment half of the season.
We start with Arsenal. The Gunners top the Premier League going into the the new year, or but they’re never too far absent from the sort of thrashing they got absent to Southampton. Will Arsène Wenger do the unthinkable and sign someone in the January window to strengthen the squad,or will this be another campaign of nearly-but-not-quite?Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com