Friday Cannon Fodder: waiting
LONDON COLNEY, ENGLAND - AUGUST 25: Arsenal Manager Mikel Arteta during a training session at Sobha Realty Training Centre on August 25, 2026 in London Colney, England. (Photo by David Price/Arsenal FC via Getty Images) | Arsenal FC via Getty Images

Good morning TSFers and happy Friday! Does anybody else find it somewhat annoying that Arsenal don’t play until Monday? I don’t want to wait that long. Last week was perfect. Arsenal played and won on Friday, so we could all sit back and enjoy the schadenfreude of the Premier League weekend.

I guess I’ll take solace in the fact that there are just a few days remaining before the Transfer Window closes, which means we only have to endure non-updates on Julian Alvarez for a little longer. I’m not super invested either way. If he joins, great. He’ll improve the team. If he doesn’t, who cares. We won the league last season without him. I just want it to end, folks.

In other news, there was a lunar eclipse last night. I didn’t see it with my own eyes (old man Aaron went to bed) but it looked super cool! To paraphrase the name of a neat subreddit nature is effing lit. Speaking of eclipses, did any of y’all travel to see the recent one in the EU? Did any of our EU folks catch it?

What is on tap for everyone’s weekend, anything fun planned? What matches — Premier League or otherwise — are you planning to watch?

Awesome photos of the lunar eclipse!Clouds parted just in time to catch views of the almost total lunar eclipse Thursday night. Capital Weather readers shared some amazing photos with us. Here is a sample.Photos by Dave Lyons, Scott Jacobson and Lena Osipova-Stocker

Capital Weather (@capitalweather.com) 2026-08-28T13:20:05.487Z
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