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Hello, I'm Ian Stone.

This is Handbreak-off, the Arsenal podcast, brought to you by The Athletic. I'm joined this morning by Amy Lawrence and Adrian Clark. Good morning. Hello, Ian. You know what? The sun's still shining. As Mark Anthony said at the end of the Battle of Actium, I watched Rome the other day. Water still tastes sweet, nay, is what he said.

And I sort of understand that, even after a defeat. And I get that. I get that because right now,

by the way, we wake up on this fine and chilly morning to find Arsenal two points clear

at the top of the table and they'll qualify for the Champions League. I mean, I know if I'd have said that at the start of the season, if I'd read that sentence out at the end of April,

if I'd have said, that's where we'd be.

You'd have bitten my end off, right?

But we know what happened last night.

So before we get into it, I was going to ask, do you believe in miracles?

Adrian, do you believe in miracles?

Of course. Of course.

Of course.

Footballing miracles are always possible.

It's never over till it's over.

And we've seen it so many times over the years,

not necessarily involving us,

but you've seen miraculous successes and failures. so yeah no i do believe in miracles um but

whether i believe in in in one for us this season is another thing um i think yeah it's it's as

i think the supercomputer has it about right. What did they say?

9%, 8%.

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