West Ham United partake in their first
domestic cup action of the season, when they face off against fourth tier side Cheltenham United.
When Arsenal next run out onto the pitch it will be at the Emirates on Tuesday night, when the Premier League has a rare midweek slot with
no domestic cup action and no Europa League and Champions League games to be played.
With all of the first round of international games now done and dusted, Arsenal can get back to business and our season really starts to hot up, with our first
domestic cup action coming up along with the Champions League group stages and the Premier League to consider.
Not exact matches
Chelsea are ready to make their offer now and will look to complete a deal before the 2014 World
Cup finals though the La Liga side may hope to spark a bidding war for the in - form marksman, who has scored 27 goals in
domestic league
action alone this term.
Arsene Wenger has often used the
domestic cup competitions to give some up and coming young players their first taste of Arsenal first team
action, but the Frenchman has generally done this in the early rounds so an FA
cup quarter final against a Premier League team like Watford would not normally see a young Gunner make their debut.
Pre-season training and the increasingly commercial and lucrative tours that clubs like Arsenal go on may be just a pale shadow of the competitive
action of the Premier League and the
domestic and European
cup competitions, but it is still very important for a number of reasons.
While we still have the rest of the
domestic action, the Champions League and of course the World
Cup in the summer to think about betting on, City have been priced up as favourites for next season's Premier League title.
This will be bad news for both Real Madrid and Wales ticket holders as he hopes to be back to full fitness for both
domestic La Liga
action in Spain and firing Wales to the World
Cup in Russia this summer in a few weeks.
Real remain down in fourth, but do have a game in hand on their rivals as they missed out on
domestic action this weekend to win the Club World
Cup in Abu Dhabi on Saturday.