Arsenal's North London Derby Glory & Pep Guardiola Loves the Smell of "Title Race" in the Morning: Men in Blazers 02/23/26
Men In Blazers
Men In Blazers
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🗓️ 23 February 2026
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Rog and Rory applaud Mikel Arteta and Arsenal's 4 - 1 demolition of Tottenham Hotpsur in the North London Derby. Plus, why braces for Viktor Gyökeres and Eberechi Eze could catalyze the team down the home stretch. And, why is everyone forgetting that Arne Slot won a title at Liverpool in his first season?!
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Meninblazers media network, Suboptimal Radio. |
| 0:05.8 | You can make a case that the best way to judge strikers, especially like pure number nine, is on the goals that they store that make a difference. |
| 0:12.1 | You know, if your team needs you, do you deliver? |
| 0:14.1 | For Yocchare is to take that touch, to hit that ball so purely in that game against those opponents, I think that's a real difference maker of a goal. |
| 0:20.7 | It's the sort of thing that can transform a player's season, |
| 0:23.2 | maybe even his Arsenal career. |
| 0:29.7 | A Premier League weekend that began with dread for Arsenal ends, |
| 0:33.3 | enjoy and life for the Gunners, |
| 0:35.4 | and the number one fan of Arsenal Coffee Cup, |
| 0:43.5 | Fisianardo Thomas Frank, for Spurs supporters, your club's demons, clearly more powerful even than Arsenal's. Manchester City, relentless, taking the points, the caparinias, |
| 0:49.7 | the dauceries to handle the pressure with the title chase. It's called repression that, Pep. |
| 0:54.8 | Liverpool commit a crime, I tell you. |
| 0:57.8 | At Notting Forest, a smashing grab that deserves, |
| 1:00.7 | and we'll probably get its own true crime podcast series to make it all make sense. |
| 1:05.9 | It's a joy to welcome, man of words, the hamlet of football, straight out of harrogate. It's my friend, Mr. Rory Smith. How are you coping with the wintry conditions, Roj? How's it going? Yeah, I'm looking outside. We are under about five feet of snow here. We're totally snowed in. I honestly feel Rour. I don't like to be hyperbolic, but I believe Bodo Glimt is warmer than the East Coast of America right now. They're certainly, they might be better prepared in Bodo Glimb they, in Bodo. They might, they might have the kind of, that's the expectation that there will be five or six feet of snow at all times. Whereas for you, it's a little bit more changeable, I suppose. Genuinely, Bodo Glimp is like a walk in the park here. You did just say something quite funny. You said, when you look out the window, you see what right now? |
| 1:48.0 | I can currently see, well, it's actually gone now, Roger, but just before we started recording, I saw this shining yellow orb in the sky. I assume there'll be some sort of CIA file on it. They don't have a word for it in the York to do that. |
| 1:57.9 | No. |
| 1:58.2 | We've got like 37 words for rain, but we um, the shining yellow disc of some |
| 2:03.2 | sorts. It seems to sort of emanate heat and light. We're trying to work out what it is. |
| 2:08.7 | There's a lot of nervousness around. We're scared, Roger. We're scared. |
| 2:12.7 | Well, some of you are scared. Some of you are melting down your jewelry to make a golden |
| 2:16.3 | cough and pray to your new son, John. |
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