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Like most Arsenal fans, Piers Morgan enjoyed their win against Leeds United this afternoon as Mikel Arteta’s side storms towards ending this season with the title in the bag.

Arsenal need to win ten games before the term finishes to be sure of the title.

The first opponent was Leeds and after the international break, the players needed to show they have what it takes to get the trophy.

Mikel Arteta’s men did just that and Morgan reckons they showed how much hunger for success they have in them.

Morgan tweeted:

Leandro Trossard continues to show he is the best signing by any club in the January transfer window after he delivered another superb performance for Arsenal in their game against Leeds United.

The attacker joined the Gunners in the last transfer window after they missed out on Mykhailo Mudryk and he has proven to be one of the best buys around.

After his superb game against Leeds United, Darren Bent insists the Belgian is one of the signings of the entire season.

He tweeted:

“Trossard has been one of the signings of the season, I don’t care if he only arrived in January, he’s been Class”

On February 16, John Fetterman, the first-term Democratic senator from Pennsylvania, checked himself into Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to receive treatment for depression. Fetterman, who defeated Republican Mehmet Oz in one of last fall’s tightest and most expensive races, had been in office for a little more than a month and was still dealing with the effects of a stroke he suffered in 2022.

Fetterman never fully stopped working—he was briefed every morning by his chief of staff, according to the New York Times, and he introduced a bill last month relating to railroad safety. But he was devoting the bulk of his time to his own recovery. Evidently, he’s made significant progress. Fetterman was discharged on Friday. He will return home to Pennsylvania for two weeks, and plans to return to the Capitol on April 17 when the Senate resumes its business after a spring recess.

In an interview with CBS News, Fetterman elaborated on the experiences that had brought him to Walter Reed. He was losing his appetite and struggling to get out of bed. “It’s like, you just won the biggest race in the country, and the whole thing about depression is that, objectively you may have won, but depression can absolutely convince you that you actually lost,” he said. “And that’s exactly what happened. And that was the start of a downward spiral.”

Six weeks after entering Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for inpatient treatment for depression, Sen. @JohnFetterman shares his struggle with depression, his health, and more in an intimate interview with Jane Pauley this "Sunday Morning." pic.twitter.com/3o2926I48B

— CBS Sunday Morning (@CBSSunday) March 31, 2023

Sky Sports journalist Oliver Yew insists Arsenal’s win against Leeds United was not straightforward, but he praised the Gunners for getting the job done.

Mikel Arteta’s side has had an amazing season and was expected to see off the Whites.

However, Leeds needed points to remain in the league and were always going to be very tricky opponents for the Gunners.

Arsenal got the job done eventually and a 4-1 score seems like it was an easy runout, but it wasn’t.

Leeds gave a good account of themselves in the fixture. Arsenal just wanted it more and had more quality in their team.

The coronation next month of Kaiser Wilhelm’s and Tsar Nicholas II’s distant cousin, Charles Philip Arthur George, as King of England is a big event, but it is not such a big event that people are afraid to turn it down.

As my colleague Inae Oh noted in February, “Some of the United Kingdom’s biggest stars, including Adele, Harry Styles, Elton John, the Spice Girls, and Ed Sheeran have all reportedly declined invitations to perform at Charles’ big day.” To that list of thanks-but-no-thanks and oh-I-wish-I-could and I’ve-got-to-see-a-man-about-a-dog, you can add a new luminary: President Joe Biden.

Per The Telegraph:

The US president is ‘not expected’ to join dozens of heads of state for the event on May 6, according to sources close to the discussions, and will send a delegation in his place.

America is keen to counter any perception of a snub and show support for the King by sending high-profile representatives, with one possibility under consideration being that Jill Biden, the first lady, could attend.

Former Scotland star Pat Nevin has praised Arsenal for how they defeated Leeds United this afternoon.

Mikel Arteta’s men responded emphatically to Manchester City beating Liverpool earlier in the day.

Arsenal had their points lead reduced by that City win, but Arteta’s men had plans to get it back and did so in fine fashion after a terrific performance against the Whites.

Leeds were not easy pickings, but Arsenal was in the mood to get nothing but a win and earned it with a superb display.

The Gunners showed why they could win the title and it impressed Nevin. He said on the BBC:

Almost immediately after Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced that he had indicted ex-president Donald Trump, Republican critics settled on a company line. Trump’s impending arrest was, in the words of Missouri Republican Sen. Eric Schmitt, “some Third World Banana Republic lunacy and a very, very dangerous road to go down.”

Schmitt should probably ask his local history professor what a “Banana Republic” is, why we call them that, and which country’s marines had a tendency to deploy to their shores to force them at gunpoint to stay that way. But he and others are wrong on the underlying point, too: Wealthy democracies investigate and indict their leaders all the time. 

Former French prime minister Nicolas Sarkozy was sentenced to a year in prison in 2021 for—oh!—campaign finance violations. Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, a Trump-like figure in many ways, has been involved in 35 criminal cases, with one conviction for tax fraud. Trump’s good friend, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu was indicted for corruption. And the current Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva, was once sentenced to 12 years in prison.

John Tyler committed treason after leaving the White House by serving in the Confederate government—but died before he could be held to account.

That the Brazilian case was later thrown out, precisely because it was a politically motivated hit-job, might sound like a point for the skeptics, except that American conservatives were quite happy with that outcome: It gave them Jair Bolsonaro.

It’s indicative of a certain kind of American exceptionalism that some politicians are so likely to claim that countries like this don’t investigate their presidents, and that their supporters are so eager to believe it.