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Hello I'm Ian Stone, this is Handbrake-Off,

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We're going to be talking about Arsenal 3-2 win away at Chelsea last night. Look ahead to Nottingham Forest in the league on Saturday late afternoon. I'm joined by James McNicholas and Art de Roche. Good morning. Morning. Good morning. Morning. Morning. We've got to be gentle with Art, James, all right? Art, he had a bit of a journey and he's a little bit stressed and he's not sure about his mic so he got, if he says anything,

just agree with him, all right? Okay. No, for one week only. No problem. There was a bit of a sort of handbags, I suppose you can call it, at the end. Martin, Supermendi and Enzo Fernandez. Enzo tried to grab Martin, and Martin just laughed at him.

Have you ever laughed in the face of Danger Art?

Well, actually, yesterday, it wasn't danger at all, but I wrote something about Sacchar and Coquerea ahead of the game.

And, yeah, as you can expect, a lot of Chelsea fans weren't to be happy with it. Good. Well done. A lot of noise during the day, some of the Chelsea fans actually saying that Kukerea was suspended, only for Kukorea to foul Sacker again and get booked. And then for Saka to kind of beat him for the two goals in the second half. So happy days, really. Yeah, well done. And, you know, both of you, I mean, James, you talked about this a couple of weeks ago, getting stick online and obviously you have as well. I mean, I guess, you know, I have as well because I put out comedy clips and they can get very upsetting for people. Yeah, we've just got to keep doing what we're doing, right?

I mean, especially you are. If you're winding up Chelsea fans, I think that's absolutely excellent. And I'm happy to support you. It wasn't on purpose, but I went for Kickory again after the game because I was writing on the whistle stuff. And for White's goal, I'm sure we'll go into it. But he's just hugging Saliba. And he'd done it a few years ago when Gabrielle scored at Stanford Bridge as well.

So that sprung to mind. So I had a little double dip with Cocherea.

Well done. You've got to double down on this stuff. And by the way, Cuccarea hugging Saliba was sort of the reason that Sanchez couldn't go for the cross, right? Yeah. Because Saliba shoved him straight into Sanchez. Maybe all these negative things that have written about him in the press, he needs a hug. I don't know. James, what about you? When have you laughed in the face of danger? Can I just say, Robbie, we love you, right? A great producer.

That is a ridiculous question because I don't think there's anything particularly dangerous about Enzo Fernandez.

But we laughed in the face of danger, James.

I don't know about laughed.

When I was a kid, an accident, I skied into a tree.

When I was about 11, I had a race with my brother on a ski slope and it was the first person to touch the tree.

And let's just say I won.

But it was quite bad, like I was hospitalized.

Did you laugh?

Well, the story goes.

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