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Hello, I'm Ian Stone.

This is Hand-Brek off, the Arsenal podcast,

brought to you by The Athletic.

Today, we're talking about

Arsenal's 2-0 win against Brentford last night and have a quick look ahead to

Aston Villa on Saturday I'm joined by James McNicholas hello hello mate morning and Art

de Roche should be here at some point but he is recording a not one of four podcasts or something he's doing today.

Get a little cheeky one in early on.

So Art will be with us shortly.

So last season, James, we drew one all with Brentford at home.

There's another two points gained in comparison.

It's difficult to work out because we had leads who weren't in the Premier League last season,

Burnley and Sunderland as well, they're newly promoted.

But it's essentially 11 points gained.

So we were improving, aren't we?

That's the point.

We're improving.

We were wondering, is there anything you were good at or you weren't good at and now you've

improved, got better at? I mean, surely everything, really, if you're a sort of assiduous person like yourself? I don't know, man. I think I'm at the age where I'm getting worse at everything, to be honest with you. Stop it. Stop it. Don't do that. Don't do that. I'm not having that. I mean, if you're 80, I get it. But, no, you work at stuff and you get better, right? Yeah, no, I think, I think that's true. I think, I think, I think physically I'm probably not where I was in my 20s, that's for sure. I'll give you that. Yeah, thank you. I think.

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