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Hello, I'm Ian Stone.

This is Handbreak-off, the Arsenal podcast, brought to you by The Athletic. We're recording this on the Monday. A couple of days after the craziness at Villa Park on Saturday afternoon. We'll, of course, talk about what went down. And we'll also assess the next block of games. We're joined by Amy Lawrence and Adrian Clark. Morning, guys. Good morning.

Happy Monday to you. Happy Monday indeed. For an opening question, right before we get into the game,

we were thinking about karma for very obvious reasons. Emmy Martinez, having spent the entire game

time wasting and with random shithousery,

ended up scoring the winning goal off his face, on the post, off his face and into the net.

And then also, by the way, was way out of position for the fourth as well.

And really, I couldn't laugh more at one of my own jokes, to be honest,

and I do enjoy them. Let me tell you. So we were thinking about karma. So what's, have we got any

other karma stories? Amy, what about you? You like a bit of karma, don't you? You believe it.

And this was a very, very magical,

calmic moment up at Villa Park

for those lucky enough to be in the vicinity.

Yeah, come with me, dear listener,

back to the autumn of 2003

and a certain Rudd van Nisaroy,

who, in a game that mattered so profoundly further down the line

rather than six games into the season well let's not beat about the bush he cheated to get

Patrick Vieira sent off in a absolutely classic crunch battle between Manchester United and

Arsenal and he um he kind of kicked

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