Arsecast Extra Episode 676 - 12.01.2026
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🗓️ 12 January 2026
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
In this episode we look back at Sunday's 4-1 FA Cup win over Portsmouth. We discuss the 10 changes Mikel Arteta made to his side, and whether that contributed to an iffy start for the Gunners, before we focus on Gabriel Martinelli's fine hat-trick, the ups and downs of Noni Madueke's performance, the return of Kai Havertz after such a lengthy absence, and how it was nice to experience a game without all the stress and anxiety that is part of the Premier League season so far. We also answer questions about Myles Lewis-Skelly, the upcoming Carabao Cup semi-final against Chelsea, links to Marc Guehi, as well as reaction to the Per Mertesacker news and lots more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another Arscast Extra as always were James from Gunner blog. |
| 0:18.4 | James a goodly morning to you and a goodly morning to you too, Andrew. |
| 0:22.8 | How are you today? |
| 0:24.4 | I'm all right, you know. I actually sort of enjoyed yesterday for the kind of no stress. |
| 0:32.9 | What's the word I'm looking for? |
| 0:36.4 | Game of football. |
| 0:37.8 | There was another word I was going to use, which would make me sound smarter, |
| 0:40.4 | but now I sound like an actual idiot because I can't remember that word. |
| 0:44.6 | Yeah, I mean, without all the stakes of the league, I guess. |
| 0:51.8 | Exactly. |
| 0:52.3 | Although I don't know if I felt like that three minutes in. |
| 1:11.5 | Well, yeah, I guess that's true. I guess that's true. It was a bit of a chaotic start of the game. But generally speaking, I was able to sort of just relax a bit of case or a sarah in terms of what happened on the pitch. Obviously, I wanted us to win the game, and I thought we would win the game. And obviously we did do that. |
| 1:20.5 | But it was nice just to sort of ease into an afternoon and not be sort of stressing and worrying and have this sort of anxiety about every single thing that encapsulates our Premier League games this season. |
| 1:28.5 | So I enjoyed it from that perspective. |
| 1:32.1 | I'm going to do something unusual and start with a question because you were there yesterday. |
| 1:36.2 | You were working and on the Discord, Snuner Gunner asked, |
| 1:40.5 | six years ago, when we played Portsmouth inA. Cup, James endured a cramped seat in |
| 1:46.2 | the press box, pillars obstructing his view, cold KFC in his bag, stinking out his items, |
| 1:53.0 | and an Ibis Hotel. So my question is, has anything changed since that last visit and |
| 1:58.9 | fucking fair play to that guy for remembering all that detail of a game that happened six years. |
| 2:04.2 | I was like, we played Portsman in the FAA Cup six years ago. |
| 2:07.3 | I am. |
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