Hello there, welcome to a brand new arse blog, arsecast, right here on arseblog.com.

Hope you're well, we've got a great show for you today.

I say we.

I think that's just a turn of phrases, isn't it, because the conjures of images when you say we have a whole team of people busying around, researchers, producer, sound engineer in there behind the glass, making sure everything's up to date and all that, but there is no we, there is just I and my booze.

Very lonely sometimes doing an arse cast, nevertheless, I can cope because I've got my booze.

So on the show today, I've got the man from East lower to talk about everything that's going on. Internet Joe, of course, will be here with his roundup.

We've got a tale of the unexpected from George, Andrea or Shavan is here. We'll be looking ahead to the Manchester United game on Monday.

These are quiet weekend, doesn't it, but that's all coming up as well as looking back at the games in the league, which have left us top of the league and qualifying for the knockout stages of the Champions League.

So that's really what there is. Oh, I'm not forgetting, of course, of course, in these cold times as the new ice age dawns, something to keep your neck warm.

Not a snood, no, a Savile Rogue scarf. I get the sense though that if Arsenal players knew that there was a Savile Rogue snood they could wear, imagine going out playing a game of football with a beautiful cashmere, snood on.

Rio Ferdinand talking about how many United players would never wear a snood. Well, he hasn't got a cashmere one, does he in red and white? No, then he might change his mind.

But that's all to come between now and the end of the show. So what's happened between the last arse cast and this one?

2-1 went over Fulham at the weekend. Sounds fine, Fulham are a difficult team. But really, we made that game a bit more difficult for ourselves than we should have.

We opened the scoreings, we sang our Nazareth fantastic goal and probably should have scored more in the first half hour, and then when one centre-half, headbutts another centre-half, it generally doesn't end well.

And so it was that Fulham got their equaliser, capitalising on that particular communication mistake. I don't know what the French for my ball is.

And on the evidence of it, neither do Cassianne and Skilacci. And you could see the impact that had on the team, the heads went down, and it was like, oh, I can't believe we've conceded it again. How did that happen?

I mean, they should be used to it by now.

And Arsenal Vingers comments to him that we were a little bit confusing to me in the sense that he doesn't really seem to think there's a big problem with us defensively.

And I'm not talking about just the defence. I mean, defensively as a team, even though our Shaven spoke about it in the press conference before the part design game.

And I looked at Alex Song's role. I know we're playing with sort of two holding midfielders, and they take it in turns to go for it. I realise all that.

But what we need is better balance for someone to tell Song that when we're three to up as the main defensive midfielder, as the guy with the physical presence and the experience in that role,

it would be better for him sometimes to just sit there and break up the play and give the simple pass rather than bomb forward to try and get us another goal that we don't necessarily need.

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