It's Rice. What a goal! Declan Rice!

What a goal! Declan Rice!

We've had an absolute rocket with a free kick!

Arsenal League, one-noll! He's cut inside! Saka!

Sublime's finish! He's back with a bang with Bukkoz Saka, 1-0!

Unbelievable!

There is, as you know, a subsection of fans who believe that the best way to protect a good season long term is to crash out of the league cup.

And boy, have I got good news for them.

This is the Arsenal Vision Postmatch podcast. My name is Elis, really black me on Twitter and I'm going to. Yeah, we didn't want that one anyway. We did. We wanted it. Once you're there, you want it. even the most diehard carabao haters, and I have to say I've never drank carabao, so I can't tell you whether I'm a hater or not, would tell you that once you were in the final, you want that sweet, sweet carabow. You want to pour it all over your body. We did not get to pour carabow all over our body. It was in fact a pretty distressing performance from the arsenal, and we will discuss it. We will try to discuss it with our head screwed on straight. My goal today is to bring a little bit of levity to a conversation that will otherwise be a bit of a downer and to make sure that we stay focused

on what didn't work without turning those conclusions into condemnations. I think that is really

the trick. Can you manage deep despair in the wake of a

painful loss and keep it in perspective in light of what is still ahead of us without,

and I want to stress this, glossing over the things that are wrong and that we need to discuss.

So we'll try to do that. You will, of course, I have no doubt, tell us your honest opinion of

whether we achieved it. Now, the interlaw will be a time to do some fun stuff. It is incumbent upon us to remember that Liverpool drop points, United drop points, Chelsea got beat bad, and yes, Nottingham Forest went to Tottenham Hotspur and won 3-0. So we're going to do power rankings later this week for patrons and you'll get a chance to laugh at our rivals, which we should always take the time to do.

When football gives you that, you take it. So we will take it, grasp it with both hands and enjoy it. We're going to do our director of football series this week and next week. It's where we have an amount of money and net spend. We're allowed to spend. We sell players, we buy players and we tell you what the future of Arsenal is going to look like so that Andrea Bertha can simply hit play. And by the end of the episode, he knows his mission for the summer. We'd love to have you along for those episodes. But if you'd like to see him some person, we will be doing Union Chapel this year. And details on that will be forthcoming. But we will be doing an event in D.C. It is now April 25th, unless we make the F.A. Cup semi-final and that game winds up being April 26. It'll be the 25th or 26. It'll be that weekend in D.C. website going up acrossamerica.orgonelvisionpodcast.com. Across America. Dot arsenalvisionpodcast.com. And you can look for details on the event event there and we would love to see you there.

Okay.

I'm sorry.

I tried to do the best I could stretching this so we don't have to talk about the cup final,

but I only made it two and a half minutes in here to make this a pleasant and enjoyable

discussion together is Clive.

Hello, Cleve.

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