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EDDIE NKETIAH RETURNED to the Arsenal starting line-up with style as the England forward hit a first Premier League hat-trick in a 5-0 win over bottom club Sheffield United.
Mikel Arteta made five changes for the visit of the Blades and it was Nketiah – in for the injured Gabriel Jesus – who proved the difference and ended a memorable afternoon wearing the captain’s armband.
Substitutes Fabio Vieira and Takehiro Tomiyasu wrapped up the points late on with a penalty and a close-range finish respectively on an afternoon where Arsenal’s fringe players took centre-stage.
Martin Odegaard dropped to the bench in the most eye-catching of Arteta’s alterations, which also saw Emile Smith Rowe make his first league start since May 2022.
The victory took Arsenal up to second place, two points behind leaders and north London rivals Tottenham as Arteta’s men remained unbeaten after 10 league games.
For the Blades, this was a galling afternoon where – once their resolute defence was breached for the first goal just before the half-hour mark – the writing was on the wall.
The travelling fans sang the name of under pressure manager Paul Heckingbottom but they have still yet to see their team win on their return to the top-flight, with just one point on the board.
With Jesus facing a few weeks out with a hamstring issue, Nketiah has once again been tasked with filling his boots as Arsenal’s go-to centre-forward.
His touch and finish for the opening goal proved he can do the job as the England international set the Gunners on their way to a comfortable victory over the rock bottom Blades.
Wes Foderingham would have expected to be busier in the opening half but he was on hand to push a rasping Gabriel Martinelli strike wide of the post five minutes before the break.
The second goal arrived five minutes after the interval, Foderingham this time flapping at a Bukayo Saka corner with the ball dropping to Nketiah, who arrowed a shot into the top corner. A VAR check for a potential foul on the United goalkeeper failed to save the visitors.
Nketiah, who made his England debut of the bench in 1-0 friendly win over Australia earlier this month, saved the best for last.
Collecting a pass from Smith Rowe, the 24-year-old rifled home from 20 yards to complete his hat-trick.
Saka, captain in the absence of Odegaard and Jesus, was replaced soon after and – to cheers from the home supporters – gave the armband to Nketiah.
Nketiah initially picked up the ball to take a late penalty awarded after a lengthy VAR check by referee Tim Robinson after Vieira had been caught by Oliver Norwood.
But instead Vieira dusted himself down to send Foderingham the wrong way and further extend the lead.
Tomiyasu rounded off the scoring deep into added time after Mohamed Elneny’s flick on from a near-post corner was deflected into the path of the Japan defender.
Elsewhere, Bournemouth boss Andoni Iraola claimed his maiden Premier League victory at the 10th time of asking with a 2-1 comeback win over Burnley thanks to a sensational 40-yard lob by Philip Billing and a lengthy video assistant referee call.
While internally Iraola had been under no pressure at Vitality Stadium, the noise externally was growing after the Cherries suffered a late defeat to Wolves last weekend, but they bounced back in style against a relegation rival.
It was Burnley who went ahead in the 11th minute when Charlie Taylor opened his account for the club on his 198th appearance with a sweet strike, but Antoine Semenyo’s fine solo effort ensured it was all square at half-time.
No winner appeared likely in the pouring rain with Clarets goalkeeper James Trafford impressive, but after the visitors gave away possession inside their own half, Billing spotted the England U21 international off his line and chipped the ball home from range.
Bournemouth did require VAR to intervene after Jay Rodriguez found the net late on but – after six minutes of deliberation by David Coote at Stockley Park – it was eventually ruled out for offside to give Bournemouth all three points.
Written by Press Association.
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Somebody should start a crowd fund for this poor poor woman, she should know that the public believe she was wronged, deserves redress and support! If it’s done I’ll be donating, I can’t imagine how she feels right now.
Why dont you go ahead and do and post the link back here. I’ll donate
I’ll donate what I can.
I would love to but ashamed to say I’m to much of a coward to take on the responsibility for it however I’m going to ask the author of the piece if they can find out if there’s somewhere we can make donations to support these victims. I couldn’t imagine what this is doing to this poor woman’s generaL health!
Horror story from the dark ages, you’d certainly hope so.
To think that this procedure was banned in France in 1798 … Holy Catholic Ireland should hang its head in shame . The suffering that poor woman went through !!
Banned in France in 1798 Judy? What do you say that.
The way these women are being treated is absolutely disgraceful. is it not bad enough that they were treated so badly at the time and that they have suffered so much since? .
I’ll happily donate to a fund set up for this woman & victims of this barbaric practice in general. It’s bullshit that this was a good option in the 1950s! The same procedure was outlawed in Paris in 1798 as it was deemed barbaric. Yet some religious nut (Dev jnr amongst others) thought this was a great way to ensure a woman wouldn’t need those pesky c sections so she could go on and have loads of babies! In all fairness considering women were left incontinent and could barely walk and were in constant pain why on earth would you ever even consider getting pregnant again! I hope these women get the justice they deserve. They were butchered somebody is accountable!
Outrageous.
It means any incompetent can can claim he/she “had reason to believe that the procedure did not generally have adverse effects”, even if he didn’t have a clue or was motivated by other than medical imperatives.
I hope this is appealed.
I really hope this is appealed.
It’s like saying that when the Brothers and nuns beat the crap out of you years ago ‘it was the times that was in it’
You either have empathy or you have not. Breaking a woman’s pelvis, how could a trained Doctor ever have thought it was ok. ‘ oh that was the times that was in it’
Did those doctors ever go to bed at night and wonder what it would be like to have their pelvic bone broken!
No tears from Enda?
Oh wait, the State defended this case…
Europe I hope.
The new hep c. Wonder what Michael Noonan will have to say.
has the health minister made a statement? or is he too busy speaking on every other ministers remit?
Exactly what I thought when I heard it tonight Anne Marie. I can’t believe this poor woman lost her case. It’s barbaric. So sorry to this brave lady
I wonder how many hours of research the defending side took to ‘prove’ that doctors didn’t know this was barbaric? Surely the fact that it was later proven to be barbaric is enough? Guess they were told to hold flood gates closed until a few more victims have passed on.
This is what happens when you have a compliant passive people , this woman could be any of our mothers or grandmothers , it’s a disgrace, does anyone know how to start a crowd fund for this woman or who she is , we need to get off our arses and get rid of the establishment .
Deliberately break a woman’s pelvis in an operating theatre today and what would happen .
State rules again. That poor woman. The psychological trauma of reliving those events day in day out to a packed court room. How that judge can sleep tonight I don’t know. His hands are not tied. He is a judge. The state already offered every woman €50,000, and that was without a trial. How is it now that the judge can award nothing? Something is amiss.
http://www.gofundme.com/ta2aba23u
There you all go donate away :)
Money waisted, paying lawyers yet again, while the victim isn’t redressed, enough is enough, we know these procedures shouldn’t have accrued, compensate them, ensured their health going forward , pay top class health insurance for them, and refund any expenses they have receipts for, above all in this cost conscious world stop waiting money on the courts
The judge’s reasoning was that, while it may seem unnecessary and barbaric now, at the time it was standard and accepted procedure given the knowledge available.
Make of that what you will but his hands seemed tied to some extent.
The problem with that reasoning though is that there was an alternative less damaging procedure available that they did know of but refused to use as it would mean limiting the amount of children the women could have which was against the Catholic ethos. I don’t think it took a lot of knowledge to know that a caescarean would do less damage to a woman’s body.
France outlawed the procedure in 1798 I think… that would suggest they were well ahead of us in figuring out what was barbaric. Beyond ridiculous result for this case.
Sarah you say France outlawed the procedure in 1798? This was also stated above in a post. So 217 years ago, before the advent of modern medicine, you are saying this procedure was outlawed by France? I think this highly implausible. How did they perform this procedure in the absence of anaesthesia, no knowledge of germ theory and no antiseptics? Would you lie there while your pelvis was sawed apart. I doubt it. How is this statement true?
Whether you think it’s implausible or not John R it’s true.
http://www.thejournal.ie/symphysiotomy-un-1355549-Mar2014/
Look it up yourself if you still think it’s implausible .
Inexplicable.
I have nothing but sympathy for this poor woman being tormented still because of this barbaric practice.
On a side not – and as a woman of almost this age – those hands in the picture belong to at least a 90 year old
Just like Noonan and the Hepatitis case. I feel very sorry for this poor lady.
If that’s the law then the law is surely an ass. How can it possibly be right for our government to oppose these cases?
Folks there is a survivors assistance fund you can donate here http://symphysiotomyireland.com/funding-appeal-from-survivors-of-symphysiotomy/
What type of monsters thought up and allowed symphysiotomy and why did it take so long to recognise that it existed?
State / Judiciary ????
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