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Hello and welcome to another ice blog, IceCast on IceBlog.com.

This is the IceCast on IceBlog on IceBlog.com.

Oh, sorry about that. Now there you go. I now have a beer. My mouth is less salty and took crackery than it was.

Just a few moments ago, all the miracles of, you know, liquid, I suppose.

Coming up on today's show, we have got the man in the bar who's got another player history for you.

As well as that, we'll be looking at all the Arsenal news that's gone on in-depth analysis of the busy, busy week that we've had.

Yeah, well, I mean, we'll do our best. And coming up very shortly, I'll be talking to former Arsenal player, Peter Marinello, who's got a book out at the moment and a rather different football book it is, too.

So we'll touch on that very shortly indeed. Now, let's talk for a few minutes about some of the stories that have happened this week.

I was going to talk about the weather here because it's been raining in Dublin for about two weeks and I don't think we've actually seen the sun for about 10 days.

And I know I should, you know, you're going to say, look, you lived in Spain, you're the one that came back to Ireland, serves you right, you bastard, which would be fair enough apart from the name calling, but there's no need to call me a bastard.

But it is still very depressing that this is June and I miss going random, my speedos and flip flops, you know, probably more information than you needed to know.

Jeremy Alliadier has been and gone. He is now a Middlesburg player and he was talking about how he didn't get his chances at Arsenal and, you know, Reyes wasn't great at the beginning of Amperse, he wasn't great at the beginning, but he had a lower salary, so it was okay to put him on the bench.

You know, my recollection is that he got plenty of chances.

You know, but every time he came on, he seemed to, you know, snap a crucial or break his back or, you know, have a brain tumor or something like that.

He was at the club for eight years, eight years. I know he arrived young, but he was still there for eight years.

I think he was the second longest player at the club after Freddie Youngberg. I think he's there longer than Terry.

So in all those eight years, he managed to score one league goal.

So it seems a little bit, you know, churlish of him now to complain that he wasn't given chances at Arsenal.

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