The only way to score is, of course, to play with a handbreak-off.

Hello, I'm Ian Stone and this is Handbreak-off, the Arsenal podcast, brought to you by The Athletic.

Our guest this week are the writers for The Athletic, Amy Lawrence and James McNicholas, and our special guest this week, Michael Cox, who also writes to The Athletic and created the website, Zonal Marking.

Hello, guys.

Hello, Ian.

Hello, I was going to say, how are you, but let's not get into that right now. I should say that Lee Dixon is unable to join us this week.

Having watched David Louise defending last night, he's unable to form a sentence without bursting into tears.

Now, before we start, we tend to kick off

with a lighthearted question. This was suggested by our very own Amy Lawrence on a scale of

David Louise to Kevin DeBreiner. How excited are you to have football back? Michael, let's start with

you. I mean, if we're just going on the 22 players from last night,

I'm probably Eddie and Ketia excited in the sense that I thought he started very bright and very

well and looked lively. And then by the second half, was kind of, you know, not really involved

and not paying much attention. So yeah, Eddie and Ketia for me.

I like that you've taken this literally.

That's really nice that you've given us a player.

Have we all done that?

James, what have you come up with?

Yeah, I know.

I was the same, actually.

Because I was going into the game,

probably Kevin de Broiner levels of excited.

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