Cannon Fodder, Arsenal News and Links, March 24, 2017

The Short Fuse has been taken over today by Cartilage Free Captain, SB Nation's Tottenham Hotspur blog! For the humor-impaired, articles posted today are intended to be parody and do not reflect the views (or even the writing!) of The Short Fuse writing staff.

The second round of international break fixtures will be kicking off this weekend and a number of Arsenal players will be in action:

• Aaron Ramsey’s Wales will take on Ireland today.
• Nacho Monreal’s Spain will face Israel also later today.
• Olivier Giroud and Laurent Koscielny’s France will face Luxembourg on Saturday.
• Finally, on Sunday Shkodran Mustafi and Mesut Ozil will travel to Azerbaijan with the German national team.
• Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain will be in action for England against Lithuania.

In other Arsenal news:

• Schalke midfielder Leon Goretzka is being linked with a summer move to the Emirates.
• A local Arsenal fan launched his bid to buy out the club’s owner, Stan Kroenke

More seriously, thanks y’all for being great fun and such good sports. We’ll have a fun day, but the most important thing is that our two blogs together raised a lot of money for two excellent charities. We’ll try to behave ourselves and we’ll be sure to return the keys to your fine site to your normal team of editors and writers at the end of the day. Let the Elneny Boogaloo begin!