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Hello, I'm Ian Stone. This is Handbreak-, the Arsenal podcast, brought to you by The Athletic.

So although there are still games to play, I think we all understand that the season basically ended last Thursday.

So we'll try and look forward as much as possible.

To do that, I'm joined by the writers from The Athlet Amy Lawrence and James McNicholas and also Amy's dog.

Hello. Yeah. He's got the most to say. What's his name? Rocky. Well, we'll come to him in a short while.

Before we get into the post-mortem and what has been pretty much a nightmare of a season, some good news.

Willie Ann got his first goal of the season.

It was a good one as well, albeit in a meaningless game against poor opposition.

And we waited almost an entire season for it.

So we were wondering who else had we waited a long time, for a long time, to score their first goal for the Arsenal.

I know it's obvious. I'd like to put forward'd like to put forward Tiari Henri in this conversation.

I don't remember how long it took him to score a goal, but I remember he missed loads of chances.

And because he was a converted forward, wasn't he, from the wing?

And I can't say I didn't have my doubts,

but he turned out all right in the end. So he's my choice. Amy, what about you?

I think I'm going to go for a similarly elite player, which is Dennis. And I'm only going to go for it mostly because a bit like

Tieri in the greatest scheme of things it wasn't really that long a weight I mean

certainly not by William or John Jensen standards but I do remember that Arsenal

played a cup game against Hartleypool away in the early days of Dennis Bergkamp and he hadn't scored yet and the headline on the paper the next day had a picture of a very forlorn Dennis Bergkamp with the headline Hartley Fool.

Nice. Yeah and it was a bit mean really because, I mean, yes, they weren't the greatest opponent, but they really laid it on thick in terms of media expectations.

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