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What a weekend for Arsenal. First they sit back and watch Liverpool lose at home to Forest

and Man City lose at Newcastle and then in the most inevitable inevitable, Eberichieze. So close to signing for Spurs goes and scores a hat trick at the Emirates. The gold slash chasm slash something else big between Arsenal and Spurs was, is enormous. It took a lovely pass to get it going, but after that it really looked like a Premier League team, swatting aside League one opposition in the Carab the Carabao Cup. And while the Liverpool crisis continues and Pep yells at a camera operator, Chelsea move up to second. Are they our best bet for title challengers? Morgan Rogers scores two for Villa to move them into the top four. Crystal Palace spoiled Rob Edwards' first game in the Wolves dugout. Does Barry know which West Ham goalkeeper played aer? And it's incredibly wet in Brighton where Igor Tiago misses a late penalty.

We'll do a bit on Ian Wright's comments on Jude Bellingham and on the World Cup draw.

Ireland could play Denmark again.

How exciting.

All that plus your questions.

And that's today's Guardian Football Weekly.

On the panel today, Barry Glendanning, hello.

Hi, Max. Welcome, Jordan Jarrett Brian. Morning, mate. And from the Racing Post, Mark Langdon, hello. Hi, Max. Let's start at the Emirates. We have Jordan, Arsenal, Mark Tottenham, me, Tottenham, Barry, neutral. James says, was EZE's phone call to Artetta before signing for Spurs the greatest phone call ever made in history?

Did he call him or did Artetta call Eze? Either way, it was, Jordan, kind of inevitable.

I mean, maybe he was never that close to signing for Spurs. He was always going to go to Arsenal.

But the first hat trick in a North London Derby since Alan Sunderland in 1978. They've only been four.

And this was probably his first real star performance for them.

Well, it makes us Arsenal fans feel a lot better if we tell ourselves that he did have

Tottenham on one line, and Arsenal on the other line literally turned down Tottenham at the same

time as agreeing to join us. And as a song, which I'm sure Mark knows, about turning down Tottenham is a beautiful and an ad song. It was inevitable. It did feel that way for sure. It's a brilliant hat trick, first of all, and it felt like his coming out moment of like, I'm an Arsenal player, finally. It felt that Declan Rice got the winner against United a couple of years ago, late on player finally. It felt Declan Rice got the winner against

United a couple of years ago late on. That felt like Declan Rice is, you're welcome to the

club. And this definitely felt like Aberreaching Eze's moment of like, yeah, I've finally arrived.

Three really, really good goals. I'll let Mark dissect how bad spurs were in a second, but from an Arsenal perspective, it was beautiful.

And for him to be, I don't really think actually played amazingly well.

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