Hello and welcome to the Arsenal Women Askcast on AskBlog.com with me, your host Tim Stillman.

I am not going to blab too much at the top of this podcast because I am definitely not the person you want to listen to.

On this particular episode we were invited down to London Colony on Friday last week and we were given access to a few players.

So on this episode you're going to hear me at Colony speaking to Gen BT, Lotta Wubbenmoy and Victoria Palova.

And clearly the focus is on Arsenal's Champions League semi-final coming up this weekend, the first leg against Wolfsburg.

So that's the kind of focus of the podcast and obviously needless to say there are still tickets available for the second leg at Emirates Stadium on Monday.

That's Bank Holiday Monday, the first of May at 5.45pm.

I think at the time of recording we're at about 45,000 tickets sold which is absolutely incredible.

But hey, there's still time to make it a sellout. So let's make it a sellout.

So you're going to listen to me talking to Gen, Lotta and Victoria in turn at London Colony.

Just before I turn over to those interviews, I want to explain I guess a sound issue, a slight sound issue, shouldn't spoil your enjoyment of this episode at all.

However, what I did was I took my trusty dictophone with me because we were recording some of you may have seen it before.

Arsenal have kind of an indoor training centre at Colony. They do a lot of broadcasting here and do a lot of kind of broadcast interviews you see with the men's and the women's team kind of happen in this indoor kind of place.

So there's a little bit going on in the background because there are other broadcasters doing interviews and Arsenal doing some stuff for their socials and that's all absolutely fine.

But what I did was I brought my trusty dictophone with me which is a fantastic piece of kit.

Faithfully laid it down when I spoke to Gen, Lotta and Victoria, Polover recorded everything or at least I thought I'd recorded everything.

And then I came home to listen to my Parkinson's-esque triumph of trio of interviews and I uploaded the file and all I got was 30 minutes of total silence.

What I somehow managed to do was press, I don't know how or when I did this because with this dictophone it's difficult to accidentally flick a switch.

The buttons are quite chunky but I had the wrong input so basically my dictophone thought that I was going to plug an external mic into it.

So it was waiting for an external mic to do the recording and obviously that wasn't happening. So I just got loads of silence.

So how I reproduced the interviews for this podcast I hear you cry. Well, one of the, there are a lot of drawbacks, drawbacks, sorry to being a hyper anxious individual like me.

However, one of the few kind of upsides is that when you live in a mind where you expect everything to go wrong all the time.

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