Football Daily | Mikel Arteta, matchballs and Arsenal excuses that just fly differently

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West Ham have finally told Julen Lopetegui to show himself through the door marked Do One … just as soon as he has finished taking training. Yep, awkward’s the word. Graham Potter, who may be hiding around the corner from Rush Green, is poised to take over having been offered a longer two-and-a-half-year deal. “The first half of the 2024-25 season has not aligned with the club’s ambitions and the club has therefore taken action in line with its objectives,” said a West Ham suit.

He would like to yes, obviously. Anybody would want to – so would I. His grandmother was born in Liverpool, and we have relatives in Liverpool, and we were fortunate to know quite a lot of the Beatles because they grew up with some of my family. So, we are attached to Liverpool, you know” – Errol Musk comes up with all kinds of emotional reasons as to why his son would be up for buying the Premier League leaders. The way he’s carrying on we’re guessing the Musk family originated on Scottie Road, had regular knees-ups in the Grafton, got their chippy tea in the Lobster Pot and knew all the words to Poor Scouser Tommy.

‘We kicked a lot of balls over the bar, and it’s tricky that these balls fly a lot’ reminds me of the old definition of chutzpah; a boy who kills his parents and then asks the judge for a lighter sentence because he’s an orphan” – Noble Francis.

Paul Scholes (and many others) going in two-footed on Big Sir Jim Ratcliffe (yesterday’s Football Daily, full email edition). Has everyone forgotten who still owns most of the club? In exchange for selling 28.9% of Manchester United, the Glazers have managed to deflect 100% of the negative attention – and trousered more than £1bn in the process. Cynically brilliant business as usual from that family” – Adam Elder.

Should Nottingham Forest start believing in Leicester-like miracles (yesterday’s Football Daily)? More to the point, if they do a Leicester, what then? See Leicester” – Bruce Ellis.

Alec Johns should have got letter of the day yesterday. Can I just take a moment to acknowledge his astonishing feat of memory. I’m sure I’m not the only one of 1,057 to wonder how the heck did he remember that? Does he have an encyclopaedic memory of all Big Paper/Website content from the past couple of decades? In which case, good luck metabolising all those oddly frequent articles about whether or not we can cheat ageing and achieve immortality, or is it simply that it was the only memorable and interesting thing he read in Big Paper/Website in 14 years? Either way, subscribing to the daily drivel output of the Daily must be mental torture, so hats off for fortitude” – Jon Millard.

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