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Hello, I'm Ian Stone.

This is Handbreak-off, the Arsenal podcast, brought to you by The Athletic.

So it's the Monday after the Sunday before Arsenal got back to winning ways yesterday.

In the most dramatic of ways, I'm joined by Amy Lawrence and Adrian Clark. Good morning.

Hello, hello.

Good morning. What a good morning is.

What a good morning.

And I was just climbing the stairs to get into the room to do the podcast.

I was thinking how different this could have been.

But for those last three minutes, football is such fine margins in it.

Let's be fair.

Before we get into the game, in an interview after the game, Mikhail Arteta compared Kai Havert's and his

difficult settling in period to when he first met his wife and how it didn't quite work at the

beginning, but they worked at it and now it's all good. So we thought that Kai Havert's and Arsenal fans

could use a bit of relationship therapy, sort of, as Amy said to me before we went on air, sort of dear, dear jury, which some of you will know about sort of relationship advice. What was it in, Amy, by the way? Was it in a magazine? I think it was a tabloid. I can't remember if it was the sun on the mirror, but it was dear, dear, Derry. And, you know, someone would write in and go,

Dear, dear Dirdrie, I'm having trouble getting my new admirer to like me. And I'm trying really hard,

but it seems the harder I try, the more difficult it is, please help. Yes, and there used to be

Marjorie Proops, for those of you, with an older vintage, well, and and there used to be a marjorie proofs for those of you with an old

of an older vintage will remember she used to do it as well so this is essentially a dear deirdrie

how can we get our new 65 million pounds signing adrian and and our and our crowd to get on

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