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

you're well. It hasn't been a particularly good week for the arsenal. We waited all weekend for the

football. We were patient. We bided our time. We put up with this kind of enforced mini interlull type

thing and we had to play on Monday night, which should be the sole reserve of Blackburn and teams

like that. Arsenal versus Manchester United shouldn't happen on a Monday night. Nevertheless,

we waited and, well, didn't turn out particularly well. Did it? Massacists, as we are, we're going to have

to discuss that. I'm with me to talk about that game and the big game block that perhaps we have

as well as looking ahead to the game against Stoke this weekend, a game which of course is full of

potential controversy, as you'll burn till silver from GunnarBlog.com. Internet Joe will be here,

got some politics on the show for you this week. I'm sorry to have to do that to you, but it's

absolutely necessary as you'll realize when you hear it a bit later on and I'll give you a chance

to win a Savile Rogue scarf as well as telling you who won last week's scarf. So Manchester United,

at home Monday night, arsenal are top of the league and we can go further ahead if we win.

We can wipe out United's game in hand. We haven't beaten them in the X amount of times. I think the

last time we beat them there was that atty by your time. That was at all traffic. We've got this bit of

a who do a bit of a block going on and you're looking for arsenal to show that they can take this league

by the scruff of the neck that they really, really wanted and they just couldn't do it.

In part down to the way that Manchester United played because they immediately pressed us very,

very high up the pitch. Both are full by Xania and Cleegee. The minute they had the ball,

they were pressed as close to our box as possible. But we should have done better. I think we're

capable of playing a lot better than that and it was disappointing, very disappointing because

when they scored the goal it was like, well, I'm not sure I can see it's really scoring today

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