James Cooper

And of course,

He now has a new assistant manager with Mikel Teta bringing Arsenal back to the Etihad Stadium.

You've also got to look at the recent form between the two teams.

And, you know, I think Manchester City have beaten them six times out of six times in the last six games that they've met.

So, you know, there's plenty of things there.

The Etihad Stadium, they've relayed the pitch there.

They were going to do some massive work over the summer.

They brought that forward.

So the service, I'm told, is absolutely fantastic.

And I think it will just be really interesting to see how everyone,

kind of contends with this behind closed doors thing.

Cause if it goes like Germany, the first set of fixtures will, will probably look more like a kind of practice match type thing with, with, with players kind of getting into their stride.

And I think that's what this kind of last couple of weeks has been really important for.

We saw Manchester United at Old Trafford.

I think it's trying to get to grips with that atmosphere, with those huge stadiums.

I mean, I've played in a couple of charity games at Old Trafford and it's intimidating when no one's there, but it's a really eerie thing.

All those red seats, um,

you know, all the eyes of the world in TV terms on you, but no one there.

And I think that's going to be a real challenge.

And we've seen, again, in Germany, the home rule really isn't anything important anymore.