The Athletic. Hello, I'm Dan Bardell. And I'm Floy Hughes. And welcome to the Athletic Football

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Today David Ornstein and Arsenal correspondent Amy Lawrence join us to talk about David's exclusive and to be honest

pretty moving interview with Jack Wilshire. Fair play to Jack Wilshire so so

honest and like you say very moving as well we'll say hello to them in just a minute but first flow let's have a

look at a couple of things that have been going on in the football world. We'll start with

Pye a being hit by a bottle. Nice Marseille at the weekend, absolute chaos in France.

Yeah I saw these pictures as well after the game of Grendusi, obviously

former Arsenal player and might have been Piot was the other player but they had

like strangle marks on their necks from the fans that had got onto the pitch I I mean, yeah, it was pretty wild and then the match ended up being

abandoned and I think a league aren't rules state that even though it was Nice that like caused the chaos, that Nice get awarded a 3-0 win or something like that.

It does, yeah, it doesn't, it doesn't sound particularly fair, but because the match was abandoned, the referee didn't restart it.

You know, and I hope there's some kind of punishment for the fans because yeah, that is just absolutely mad.

Yeah I watched malice at the palace on Netflix recently it was quite

reminiscent of that I don't know whether you've seen it the big basketball

fault that there was years and years and years ago now.

It was very reminiscent of that sense.

I can't say I've particularly seen it in football in my lifetime actually.

No, I mean we haven't seen that in the UK for a very long time thankfully and you do

occasionally see it in Europe every now and again especially in kind of like

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