WHAT THE PAPERS SAY

It is understood that an armed response unit arrived at the Fade Away shop in the early hours of Friday.

Prior to yesterday’s match, I met up with a mate who’d flown over from Dublin to bring Joel, his youngster, to his first ever Arsenal game. 

Arsenal are likely to be without Granit Xhaka for their Premier League clash at home to Manchester United on Sunday.

To borrow a famous line from a GAA match report printed in this paper, Bayern Munich appear to have driven the final nail in Arsene Wenger’s coffin of hope, writes Larry Ryan.

Students with a passion for art might be surprised to find they may also love computer coding, says the principal of a girls school that started coding classes last year.

Bayern Munich 5 - 1 Arsenal

Premier League

Arsenal 2 Burnley 1

Arsenal 1, WestBrom 0: Relief. It’s lucky Arsenal have a hold over West Brom, having only lost once in 12 previous meetings with the Baggies.

Arsenal 0 Southampton 2: Arsene Wenger’s EFL Cup gamble backfired in spectacular fashion last night as he made 10 changes to an Arsenal side that was comfortably beaten by Southampton, who made it through to the League Cup semi-finals for the first time since 1987.

Sunderland 1 Arsenal 4: Arsene Wenger is the manager renowned for not seeing pivotal incidents during a match, but it was David Moyes who appeared to be watching a different game on Saturday.

Arsenal 6 Ludogorets 0: Bash out another win like this in Bulgaria in two weeks time and Arsenal will have all but qualified for the knock out stage of the Champions League for the 16th year running.

Theo Walcott’s epiphany, 10 years after first arriving at the club and at the grand old age of 27, that he is a winger not a striker inspired Arsenal to a Champions League victory over Basel and, coming just three days after a fine victory over Chelsea, has raised levels of positivity at the Emirates to new levels.

On a day when Arsenal were made to look like champions, Arsene Wenger suggested that possibility might be more realistic if the club’s supporters had kept the faith.

Arsenal  1 Watford 2

Arsenal 0 Hull City 0: Arsene Wenger has set aside thoughts of an FA Cup replay trip to Hull and back to concentrate on how to defeat Champions League holders Barcelona in the first leg of their last 16 tie tomorrow night.

Arsenal 2 Burnley 1

Vardy has recovered from a minor groin surgery in time for tonight's big game.

Arsenal 3 Sunderland 1: The FA Cup third round weekend began with Jurgen Klopp submitting a jaw-dropping team sheet at Exeter but there was no chance Arsene Wenger would follow suit.

Judging by the irritatingly incessant whining of the WOB (Wenger Out Brigade), despite the fact that we’re currently looking down on every other club in the country, there are far too many Gooners who simply can’t comprehend that the vast majority of fans spend their entire lifetimes waiting, mostly in vain, for their teams to win something.

Southampton 0 Arsenal 4: Arsene Wenger admitted he is unsure when Jack Wilshere will be back in an Arsenal shirt, after a grim night for the title chasers on the south coast.

Aston Villa 0 Arsenal 2: Arsene Wenger has hailed a “great week”, after Olivier Giroud scored again and Arsenal followed up Champions League qualification with a climb to the top of the Barclays Premier League by comfortably beating rock-bottom Aston Villa.

Time magazine named German Chancellor Angela Merkel its 2015 “Person of the Year”, noting her resilience and leadership when faced with the Syrian refugee crisis and turmoil in the European Union over its currency this year.

Arsenal 3 Sunderland 1

Alexis Sanchez is likely to return in time for the busy Christmas fixture schedule for Arsenal, but Santi Cazorla is out until the new year after suffering a knee injury at Norwich last Sunday.

Sheffield Wednesday 3 Arsenal 0: Arsenal were unceremoniously dumped out of the Capital One Cup on a damaging night as Sheffield Wednesday blew them away with a stunning 3-0 victory at Hillsborough.

Eleven of the nearly four dozen people injured when a car careened into a crowd watching a Oklahoma State University homecoming parade at the weekend were children, police said, in addition to a toddler who died of his injuries.

Arsene Wenger faced an angry supporter at last week’s shareholder Annual General Meeting when he was accused of overseeing an ‘embarrassing’ run of recent results in the Champions League.