Arsenal are without key players Fabregas and Van Persie. By looking on the above concerns, it seems not a good idea to support Arsenal but the Gunners have won all the Champion League matches at Emirates stadium. I can see their home spirit and high motivation from London’s supporters. Arsenal will go… with a goal!

I didn’t really expect that you can see such a detail.

That’s of course unfair but I don’t think we can really stop this.There’re inequalities in football and in fact everywhere.

Of course that’s un-sportsmanlike,but I guess that’s the advantage of being a home side.

However, I noticed that every time ball boys retrieved a ball for a Stoke throw in, they wiped the ball with the towels they all carried.

If it was an Arsenal throw-in, this did not happen.

Surely this is un-sportsmanlike and certainly contrary to Rule L (c) of the FA Rules viz:

Rule L

Fair play in football means that EVERYONE [FA capitalisation] connected with football:

(a) shows understanding of and respect for the Laws of the game;
(b) supports the belief that the game should be played in an entertaining and positive way; and
(c) behaves on and off the field in a sporting manner towards all others involved, be they players, officials or spectators, irrespective of results.

Clearly, Stoke issued ball boys with towels which, by inference from their use, Stoke have instructed the ball boys to only use when Stoke win a throw in. This would seem to be contrary to Rule L (c) of the FA Rules in that the towels are used in a partisan fashion.

What next? Are Stoke going to tell their ball boys to waste time as well before throwing balls back if Stoke are winning?

You have a point there.But I hope they will not be over confident in this game.If your prediction is true then we will not lead the table yet.But of course we achieved our main objective which is to take the full three points.

The record shows that Arsenal is having 77.8% home wins in Asian Handicap betting. I will go for Arsenal even if the handicap is high.