Arsenal v Leeds United: live 90 min Great save, Sczcesny! Forssell the final part of a decent Leeds move, forcing the keeper into a smart diving stop. 89 min Steve Matthews with a legitimate point of concern: I'm chuffed The King has scored on his return, but what a chump I'm going to look in my Arsenal shirt with 226 on! 88 min Miquel looks to sashay pass Lees in the box but isn't fooling the impressive Leeds centre back, who tackles him cleanly. 86 min Back to meaningless flatness now, with Arsenal looking to see the game out and sitting off Leeds somewhat. White has a foray on the left and crosses it towards the far post. Forsell can't keep it in. 83 min Arshavin demonstrates why he is not Thierry Henry, by controlling a ball in a very similar position to where Henry scored from, in possibly even more space, and smacking it into the side netting. He's been rubbish tonight. 82 min Szczesny is alert to a diving header from McCormack after good work from Nunez down the right for Leeds. Forsell is on for Nunez. 80 min Henry went absolutely ballistic after that goal, and even as a man with a higher-than-average distaste for Arsenal it's a real joy to see him celebrating with such unconfined joy, and the faces of delight on the club's supporters. Arsenal 1 Leeds 0 (Henry) Ah, that's textbook from Henry. Rolling back the years. Song played a great ball in between Thompson and Lees to the aging Frenchman, who had sneaked past his marker and into space in the box. One touch, picks his spot, and passes it into the far corner beyond Lonergan. Wild celebrations. I worry for the structural integrity of the Emirates' roof. 76 min Sczcesny comes a long way to clear a Clayton pass forward. Pugh has a snapshot at the briefly exposed goal, but Szczesny is back in time to claim it with ease. 74 min As Becchio is replaced by Ross McCormack here is an email from Matthew Brunt: Greatest thing Henry has ever done? The handball goal against Ireland. Proving that football is no longer a game of fair sporting behavior. Just a shame it's not affected its popularity as a result. 73 min Walcott on Arsenal corner duty now. It's a poor one. Ramsey controls the loose ball, turns swiftly and tries to get the ball back across the six yard box. It's cleared well by O'Dea for another corner. This one's taken by Arteta. Leeds clear. This is grim. 71 min Arteta floats a free kick into the box. It travels all the way through to Lonergan. Henry appeals for something. Hard to tell if it's a foul or for a better delivery next time from Arteta. 68 min Oxlade-Chamberlain puts another shot wide. This time it's Chamakh providing him with the lay-off. Walcott's on for AOC. And that Henry is on for the pretty awful Chamakh. 65 min Here comes Thierry Henry! He used to be good once. Lots of people holding up their phones and pointing them in his direction. I don't think he's going to to anything dramatic immediately after entering the field of play, chaps. 64 min Townsend is booked for an act of petulance, kicking the ball away in frustration. Voice of reason Peter Littley is back: Surely time for Arshavin to go and tidy the dressing room, polish the statues and anything else that requires no skill or luck. 62 min Oxlade-Chamberlain stings Longergan's palms from distance after a nice lay-off from Ramsey. It's cleared back to Ramsey, who shoots over. Varynen is off for Leeds, Brown on in his place. 60 min Apologies for the erratic updates on this liveblog in the second half, we're having some technical issues. Yes thanks, I've tried turning it off and on again. 58 min Leeds are stretched. Oxlade-Chamberlain hangs up a ball into the area from close range. O'Dea is forced to head over his own bar. Lonergan catches the resulting corner. Leeds, to give them credit, have defended corners well this evening. 55 min Arsenal knocking on the door now. Lonergan saves well from a decent Chamakh shot from just inside the box. That's Arsenal's first shot on target. Moments later Arshavin gets in behind, but he's too wide of goal and his shot ends up more of a pull-back across goal. For no-one. 53 min Two more Arsenal corners in quick succession. The second is punched, by Longeran, again. Surely it's Thierry time now? 49 min Arsenal corner. Arteta takes once again. Lonergan punches it clear. 47 min AOC rides a Townsend challenge on the right flank and sprints towards goal with some unusual directness for Arsenal in this game. He gets a shot off just shy of the box. It's just wide. 46 min Here is a second half of football, begun by a kick-off by the football team commonly known as Dirty Leeds. 20.32 Koscielny heads that corner over in the last action of the first half. It's poor. Leeds have tightened up or Arsenal have lost interest. Hard to tell, but it's difficult to see Leeds scoring, or Arsenal not eventually wearing them down. Keep the emails coming, they've been of exceptional quality tonight. They're keeping me going, to be honest. See you in 15. 45+1 min One added minute to be added to this listless first half. Arsenal have a corner. 45 min Patrick Murray is concerned: Seriously? Coquelin out? It's like there's a cloud of kryptonite over Arsenal's backline. It's got to be some kind of record... So much so that it can no longer be a coincidence. Training and medical staff need to be assessed. 44 min Good delivery this time from Arteta, but there's a brave Leeds head in there ahead of... Ramsey, maybe? Leeds get it to safety. 43 min O'Dea is booked for his third or fourth naughty tackle of the evening, sliding in on Chamakh on the left. Artera to cross from the free kick. 41 min Lovely stuff from Leeds' Spurs loanee Townsend, who just hared up the right-hand touchline, spotting a chance to take a quick throw, shouting "yes please! yes please!" to the ballboy. 10/10 for politeness from the young lad. In the end, he didn't even get to take the throw. What is the world coming to? 40 min Rubbish Arsenal free kick from 40 yards deflects off a Leeds player. The home side have a corner they do not deserve. It's wasted. 38 min This match is inert, like one of those gasses you hear so much about. Leeds offering so little, Arsenal lacking in the cutting edge to punish them. Champion and Burley reduced to arguing about the Olympics. 34 min BIG NEWS: That Martin Keown being hit in the head with a football moment from earlier has been unleashed on YouTube! Here it is in all of its glory: Top marks to Keown for appearing the angriest he's been since this memorable episode: 32 min Koscielny's having a good game, calmly dispossessing the busy Becchio with ease as he attempted to seize on a rare moment of backfootedness by Arsenal. As I type this Craig Burley agrees with me. For those watching ESPN while reading I promise that we have come to these conclusions indepedently. 30 min Coquelin's done his hamstring by the looks of things. And it looks like the substitution we've all been waiting for!!! Yes, Arsenal legend Nicholas Yennaris is stripped off and ready to go! 27 min Here's Peter Littley. You might remember him from such emails as "It must be joining Monaco and meeting with Arsene Wenger" and "unsubscribe." Having been altogether reasonable, I shall now be frivolous. I hear Arshavin has taken his gloves off. Can this be so ?? What do you read into this manly move This is indeed true Peter. They were off after about five minutes, which prompted an odd exchange between ESPN's Jon Champion and Craig Burley. Burley mocked the Russian for wearing gloves in the first place, then said "I'm only wearing a jumper and I'm fine.... I'm not trying to be tough. Then Champion started talking about thermal underwear and Burley called himself fat with a real note of self-loathing in his voice. The whole thing left me quite confused. 24 min Leeds have their first attack of the game. They earn a free kick 40 yards from goal. It's floated into the box fairly innocuously but Song makes a bored-looking attempt to head clear and it goes straight up in the air. Townsend takes the ball, powers towards the byline and pulls it back for Becchio, who blazes over with a first-time shot. Only a half-chance in the end but that was some characteristically poor defending from a set piece from Arsenal. 23 min Poor delivery. It's cleared by Leeds but Arteta has a chance. He puts a shot over from 30 yards. 22 min Arshavin's come to life! Rare pace to his dribbling as he gets into the box and pulls it back towards Chamakh. It's beyond him but falls nicely for Ramsey, whose shot takes a deflection and earns Arsenal a corner. 20 min Swift attacking move from Arsenal with AOC and Ramsey playing diagonal forwards balls which cross the pitch and find Arshavin hugging the left-hand touchline. He runs at Thompson and takes on Lees before putting it in behind him for Ramsey to chase. He fails to keep the ball the right side of the byline but that was better from Arsenal. They had the ball in the box with devastating speed. 18 min Arteta with a shot from 25 yards. It's over. Flat as anything at the Emirates. I'm not a gigantic fan of tradition, but it certainly feels quite wrong to be watching a non-replay FA Cup third round match on a Monday night. 15 min Squillaci puts a header just wide from a promising position after Ramsey's free kick on the left. 14 min Excellent tackle by Varynen as the ball is worked towards Alex Oxlade-Chamberlian (henceforward AO-C. Far too annoying to type his full name.) by Ramsey from the left. 13 min Here's your friend and mine Paul Hobart: Henry warming up yet? Come on, come on, must be time to take either Arshavin or Chamakh off. Not quite Paul, but he is looking good with his new beard. 12 min Rare occurence alert! Leeds put the ball into Arsenal's half! There's no-one even close to it, though, and Coquelin duly lumps it back across the halfway line. 9 min Arshavin turning provider for Chamakh now, attempting to put him in behind Leeds' centre backs, who are rather too far apart for my liking. It's hooked away by O'Dea. 6 min Leeds looking a little more composed now. Thompson doing well to guide Arteta away from danger on the left, and winning a throw-in. 4 min Oof, that's poor from Arshavin. Chamakh slides him in past O'Dea in the middle, just outside the box and he absolutely hammers it over. Awful shot. Arsenal are cutting through Leeds more or less at will so far. 2 min Arshavin with an early chance for Arsenal. It's blocked by Leeds' Lees. Yes, that's central defender Tom Lees, not a repeated word and a typo. 1 min We're underway. Arsenal get us started. 19.42 David Beckham is in the building with sons. The older one (Brooklyn?) is wearing an Arsenal hat. He had a Manchester United one on on Sunday. 19.40 "It's rather like turning up at a West End theatre," says ESPN commentator Jon Champion. I won't reveal the full extent of that analogy, I'll just agree that it's an accurate description of going to a game at the Emirates. 19.34 Martin Keown has taken a warm-up ball in the head while standing by ESPN's pitchside podium. He's blaming Leeds' Michael Brown, but says "I don't think he did it on purpose. He's not good enough to do that. 19.28 Henry's out to warm up. He waves at the seven people that are in the ground this early. 19.24 Patrick Murray on the man that's threatening to overshadow the forthcoming football match: It'll be fun to TH back in the fold but its hard to believe that he can make a difference to Arsenal other than a relatively cheap short term warm body that's nearly impossible to jeer. There must be an anachronism there. 19.14 Here are the teams: Arsenal: Szczesny, Koscielny, Miquel, Squillaci, Coquelin, Arteta, Song, Ramsey, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Chamakh, Arshavin. Subs: Martinez, Park, Henry, Walcott, Benayoun, Miyaichi, Yennaris. Leeds: Lonergan, Thompson, Lees, O'Dea, White, Townsend, Pugh, Nunez, Clayton, Becchio, Vayrynen. Subs: Taylor, Bruce, Brown, Sam, Forssell, Parker, McCormack. Referee: Mark Clattenburg (Tyne & Wear) 19.12 Here's optimistic Arsenal fan Ben Howard: Best thing Thierry Henry ever did was come back on loan, when everybody said he was past it, scored 12 goals in 12 games, which propelled us to top spot in the league.... Well, we can hope cant we! 19.02 Martin Keown! Robbie Savage! In the Arsenal dressing room! Wearing headset mics! No-one knows why! I'll stop this now, but I'm still excited. 19.00 ESPN activate their excitement machine. Lady in red coat! By Henry statue! Saying "he's back!"! A montage! Goals! Football! Come on! Yes! This is brilliant! 18.53 A video response to the question above from Vekram Jenarthanan. Amazing work, Vekram. Here it is: 18.45 I'm looking forward to watching tonight's match on ESPN, the official channel of former Tottenham keeper and famed abbreviation fan ESPeN Baardsen. Their coverage of this competition last season was completely breathless and insane. Perfect for the FA Cup. 18.32 Peter Littley with an altogether reasonable answer to the question posed above: It must be joining Monaco and meeting with Arsene Wenger. That combination of his natural skill and Wenger's mentoring has been the making of Henry into the player he became. 18.15 Evening liveblog lovers. Do you remember those halcyon days of The Past? Four English teams flying high in the Champions League? Arsenal playing sumptious one-touch football and winning trophies sometimes? People having a disposable income? Well friends, those days are gone. But with the re-introduction of Thierry Henry and Paul Scholes into our lives, perhaps they're on their way back. Only verrrrry verrrrry slowwwwly. Paul Scholes' unexpected return to action for Manchester United on Sunday didn't go quite to plan, with the 44-year-old giving the ball away sloppilly in the lead-up to City's second goal. Thierry Henry is expected to re-make his bow in an Arsenal shirt this evening and the ripe old age of 109, and it's difficult to see how he will fare any differently. In his pomp his game was all about graceful pace and balanced power. The former is certainly not what it was, and having spent his recent years playing in US MLS Mega-League Budweiser Sawc-er he's likely to receive a shock to the system in the FA Cup tonight, which is sponsored by, erm... Budweiser. Leeds are the worthy opponents, so get set for commentators who rarely stay awake for The Football League show blithely praising them as "too good for the level they're at" when they string some passes together early on, ignoring the fact that they've now been out of the Premier League for the best part of 10 years. They're in indifferent form but hovering around the play-off places. They also managed a 1-1 draw here in this competition last year. They lost the replay 3-1, but this happened, which basically made it all worthwhile: Team news and extended ruminations on Henry's new beard to follow, stay tuned.