Hello, they're welcome to a brand new ars blog arscast right here on ars blog dot com.

Hope you're well. It's been quite the event for a week on the field of the field on the blog and everything else and to make this week complete.

I've got quite the show for you today. And normally I say that and I'm lying through my teeth. Seriously today I do actually have quite the show two guests and well, you know,

that's that's the main part of it. Two guests were normally there's only one. So it's twice as much guestness as there usually is.

We can discuss all the football as well. It's been a good week in terms of football. Internet Joe will be along. We've also got Dan Nielsen and who knows we'll be looking ahead to the weekend game coming up tomorrow as well.

So there you go. So as since the last time we spoke things have gone well on the field for Arsenal at the weekend. There was a game against West Ham and it's potentially a tricky fixture when you're playing a team at the bottom of the table when they're fighting for their lives.

You know you're going to be in for a difficult time. Most of the time. We were helped, of course, by the whole Averham Grant fiasco. I think you might call it the day of the game.

There are all these stories about how Martin O'Neill was going to take over and Grant was a dead man walking and in fairness, he does look actually like a dead man walking those corpse eyes that could

have a bit of a dauverousness that he has about him, but that's neither here nor there. The West Ham players seem to play like they thought the manager was going to be gone in the morning so it was like, well, you know, it doesn't really matter.

We'll just stroll about the place. Wayne Bridge on loan from Manchester City. There's 90,000 pounds a week well spent and to be fair, West Ham made it fairly easy for us.

I wouldn't think they were a team fighting for their life. Nevertheless, we had to play well. We did play well. Two goals from Rob Van Persian, a goal from Theo Walker, three in L away from home and a good response to the week that had gone previously, which wasn't quite as good and happy and all that kind of stuff.

And then we had to go to Ellen Droad for the FA Cup third round replay and much to the dismay of Leeds fans and in particular Peter Dury on ITV, we won that game quite comfortably too, even though Leeds got themselves back into it.

The early goal from Samir Nazari, a brilliant goal from Bakery Sanya, who really does deserve more goals than he gets because he does so much for the team and work so hard.

I think he could score tangles, he'd deserve every single one of them. I don't mean that he is going to score tangles or could possibly score tangles. I don't think that's realistic. My point is that if he did score tangles, nobody could say he didn't deserve them. Leeds got their goal back and then bent near the wing wizard, put a ball right onto Rob Van Persian, he made it 3-1 and after that, it was just game over for Arsenal and we're into the fourth round of the FA Cup, but it was dismaying for Adrian Childs on ITV.

Van for Peter Dury, the commentator, the pitch of his voice getting higher as he imagined himself delivering the lines that Arsenal had been knocked out of the Cup by a team and the championship a giant killing and when he was describing the score at half time, you would have thought Leeds were ahead. They'd been more or less battered for the whole of the first half.

I got a goal that I suppose you could like into a hole in one if you were playing golf once in a lifetime kind of a hit. Top corner from 30 yards yards out, you don't do that every week.

So it was a little bit irritating to have to listen to them, but I suppose in the end, it's quite satisfying to hear them upset by the fact that Arsenal won.

Having to see them in the studio afterwards, talk about an Arsenal win, but oh, Leeds ever so brave, weren't they this then? Yeah, but at the end of the day, they lost. So fuck off, that was ITV.

And then, of course, there was the whole denielsen thing, the interview, the son and all that kind of stuff. And what happened was this, right? A couple of days ago, Arsenal Brazil said to me, we've got an interview with denielsen.

Remember the one we did with Edu? We've got one with denielsen. We'd like to give you the exclusive English language rights to it. And I said, that's splendid. You're very kind, and I appreciate that a great deal.

And with a few emails back and forth, and they sent me across the video file with the subtitles in English that they'd put on it.

And they said, look, we're going to publish a story. It's going to go out at midnight GMT. All we'd ask is that you don't put it out before that, because we want to put it out as an exception.

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