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.

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Well done them, obviously.

Now let's take the mick out of them.

1. Francis Coquelin and Alexandre Lacazette are all of us

"Mange tout, Francis. Mange tout." (
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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.

And he doesn't give presents, he haunts your dreams.

2. Rob Holding is not full of Christmas spirit

"Yeah, what's so 'merry' about it?" (
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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

"This isn't going to go on Instagram is it?" (
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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

Look familiar? (
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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

And Macey was never seen again (
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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

Move over Olivier Giroud, eh? (
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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...

"Merry Christmas you filthy animals" (
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"I said Merry Christmas!" (
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"(indecipherable clicking sound)" (
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