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

Now, like Mikhail Arteta yesterday, we are recording this, by the way, the morning after the Southampton victory.

So like Mikhail Artetti yesterday, and definitely not on Saturday, we are picked our strongest lineup for this podcast,

the midfield generals as ever are James McNicholas and Amy Lawrence

hello guys hello Ian I just one thing about the midfield general well

this is opening up a whole can of worms do you object to being a midrille I mean

I haven't said which one is

Pata and which one is Jacques. Okay, so. I see where this is going. Yeah. And also,

we're joined by the Norwegian journalist Knut-Espensweigarden, hence to be known as Swaya,

which is how he likes to be known. Hello, Swaya. Hello. From the Norwegian newspaper, Verlens Gang, and we want to talk to you particularly about the loan signing of...

Now, again, I'm going to say Martin Urdegaard. How is that in terms of pronunciation?

That's quite right. It's Martin Urdegaard, but... Do you know what? Fair enough, anyway?

We have a sort of very hard language, so it's okay, I mean, with what you said.

Well, thank you. Okay, Martin, do you know, I'm not going to attempt the Martin but Martin Erdogard who signed on loan from

Real Madrid now we're going to talk to you about him because we want to know what we're

getting essentially but before we do that we thought we'd ask the opening question

which is about memorable Scandinavian signings for Arsenal or Scandinavian moments, if you like.

I'm just going to put Freddie Lundberg out there because I know everyone will be thinking that

and obviously he went on to great success as both an Arsenal player and an underpants model.

But we'd like to go round the panel. So Amy, I'll ask you first. Well, I want to go on too long, but I'm a bit worried this might be a slightly longish answer with Sveyor sitting here waiting on the line from Norway. But my first probably good memory of Scandy players for Arsenal is Ziggy Jonson, which those of us of a certain age will remember, who had unfeasably sort of white blonde hair, looked like he was chiseled out of some Icelandic rock, and was a much loved player who didn't play a great deal for Arsenal but everyone thought he was fantastic

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