Bellerin's Instagram woe, stylish Kolasinac and Gunnersaurus: 7 things we spotted from Arsenal's charity Christmas jumper team photo

Merry Christmas! Well, merry Everyone Reminding You
That It's Going To Be Christmas In A Few Weeks,
anyway.
That's right, it's November now. This is the month
that the Christmas hype really shifts up a few notches
as the shops stock up on decorations, the queues get
longer and the reality bites that you're going to need
to cough up a small fortune on presents pretty soon.
Christmas is also a time for giving though, and the
Arsenal squad have been doing their bit by donning
Christmas jumpers in a photo released on Wednesday
as part of their partnership with charity, Save the
Children.
Well done them, obviously.
Now let's take the mick out of them.
1. Francis Coquelin and Alexandre
Lacazette are all of us
It is no coincidence that the two players who seem to
be enjoying themselves most in this photo are the two
who are closest to the man dressed in a giant
dinosaur costume.
As kids growing up in France, Francis Coquelin and
Alexandre Lacazette would have heard all about Père
Noël visiting in the night and giving children presents,
and Gunnersaurus is much the same.
Except the only night he visits these days is
Thursdays.
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And he doesn't give presents, he haunts your dreams.
2. Rob Holding is not full of
Christmas spirit
Look at Rob Holding here.
His jumper may say Merry Christmas but his eyes and
expression say a cold, wet Wednesday in the first
week of November when all he wants to do is get
through work and then maybe put his feet up with a
bit of Netflix and a bottle of Becks later.
It's nice that it's for charity and all, but he's just a
simple Lancastrian lad who didn't ask for any of this.
He just wanted to be good at football, and maybe get
a few games for Bolton if he was lucky.
Not this, though. Not this.
3. Hector Bellerin isn't having it either
Hector Bellerin is another who doesn't exactly look to
be full of joys of (what isn't quite yet) the season, but
you suspect that his frustration is rather different than
Holding's.
Followers of the quicksilver right-back on social media
can tell you of a cool, fashionable, jet-setting young
man who takes pride in his appearance and who
seems to be creating a sort of digital brand akin to
that of an ASOS model.
None of this nonsense fits in with that.
Whatever you do, don't @ him.
4. Arsene Wenger has stuck to the
same formation
Now we don't want to be Scrooges here, but it seems
as though this photo was taken so long ago that
those Christmas jumpers must surely have been
overheating the brave Arsenal boys as they baked in
the early autumn sun.
The team are seen in exactly the same lineup that
they were in for the squad photo taken back in
September, and in that one the front row was in the
same order as the previous year , bar Santi Cazorla.
Say what you want about Arsene Wenger, once he
finds a formation he likes he sticks to it.
5. Reserve goalkeeper Matt Macey
has committed a dreadful error here
As is the case with bears, Gunnersaurus is often more
scared of you than you are of him, but there is one
thing that you must never do when in the vicinity of
history's greatest monster , er Arsenal's mascot.
You must never make yourself appear bigger, or more
dominant than the not-so jolly green giant.
Reserve goalkeeper Matt Macey has done that here
though.
Expect fourth-choice Dejan Iliev to get a chance at
home to West Ham in the quarter-finals of the
Carabao Cup next month, as Macey (eaten by a giant
green dinsoaur) is ruled out.
6. Sead Kolasinac weirdly suits a
Christmas jumper
Going on what we know from when this picture was
taken, it would have been easy for Sead Kolasinac to
look a little lost as he was randomly asked to throw
on a Christmas jumper in what were his first few
weeks as a Gunners player.
But not so.
The Bosnian international looks, quite frankly,
fantastic in his red knitted creation.
If we looked that good in Christmas jumpers we'd
wear them all the time.
7. And finally, well...

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