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Hello I'm Ian Stone.

This is Handbreak-Off, the Arsenal podcast,

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We're going to talk about the

1-1 draw away to Chelsea. I'm joined by Amy Lawrence and Adrian Clark. Good morning.

Good morning. Good morning. Hello. See, we were sort of discussing opening questions before.

I was quite keen on talking about whether the awfulness of Chelsea fans and supporters and the

club in general is somewhat mitigated, at least by the fans who go at the game, by the

high standard of catering around the ground. But we decided we weren't going to go there

because it's an Arsenal podcast and, you know, sod them. So it was George Graham's 81st birthday yesterday.

Adrian, do you think George would have liked to defend him for the set piece?

Probably not, I imagine.

I don't think so.

No, no, I think he might have had one or two things to say.

Yeah, I only got to play one match under George Graham. And yeah,

their words were said, I think, in that game. We did get beat. So I've seen it. I've seen

that side of him. So yeah, he wouldn't have been happy with that. But what I do think he

wouldn't have minded is the nature of the game. Because I think he quite enjoyed, he did enjoy the physical nature of football and a proper battle.

And even though it was a bit ugly and a little bit nasty at times yesterday.

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