Hello there and welcome to a brand new R-Splog R-Scast right here on R-Splog.com.

Welcome along to the show thank you for being here as always. I hope this finds you in good form and fine fettle as they might say if you were a horse.

But you're not. I know you're not because horses do not listen to podcasts against the horse code. Don't ask me how I know that. But I just do.

It has been pretty good week since the last time we spoke on the old R-Scast 400 there last week. What have we done? Just you know the two wins beating Swansea for the first time at home since 2011? What's that? What's that noise I hear in the background? That's right. That is the sound of a who-do being buried. Get in the ground who-do we put you there. About time but we did it. Then a midweek win over ludigrits in the Chen

Champions League. I'm not unexpected win of course but it's kind of rare when you win six nails so that's to be enjoyed. I think most people would have fancied us for that game on Wednesday night. There would have been disappointed had we not won it but if it had been a three-nil I think everybody would have been pretty happy three-nil that's convincing. Another clean sheet and other three goals but in the last week we scored nine goals and kept one clean sheet. Of course we let in a couple of goals against Swansea but they were very much avoidable goals mistakes.

We could have done away with a mess at all's all hat trick as well. Oh, nice it. Getting his goal on this season isn't he six now for the season for him? And the best season he's ever had is eight goals for Arsenal. That is the best. He got eight in his first season 2013-14 and he got eight goals last season. And our Senfinger has been on at him for some time. Hasn't he to get into double figures? He's a guy who should be getting 10 to 15 goals and you look at the quality he has and you

think yes he should be but there was always so much onus on him as the guy to create the goals. He was the one we needed pulling the strings. He had to open up the locked defenses that magic wand of a left foot of his was required for other tasks beyond slipping the ball into the back of the net or

kicking it into the ground into the back of the net or whatever else way he likes to put it in the back of the net a header of course against Watford. So there's been a lot to like about the last week. We're going to talk about all that kind of stuff.

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Also we'll give you the winner of the the books from the ars cast 400 competition you get to win a copy of so party got up and together the story of arsenals unbeaten season. What else will we do. I don't know we'll talk to Jim Campbell from the football rambled now in a little while and we'll do whatever the hell else comes into our heads between now and the end of the show.

Of course we'll be looking ahead to the game against middle's bra middle's bra the new home of calum chambers who of course can't play he's not allowed play because he's on loan and loan players are not allowed play against their parent clubs less to they become sleeper agents performing badly on purpose for the benefit of the club that pays their wages and issuing their professional duties and the basic desire that any footballer has to win a game regardless of who it is that you're playing against.

But that's by the by he can't play he can't play. It's been a good week though football week for Arsenal Manchester United and Liverpool drew so that means they dropped some points I'm still regretting sitting watching that game it was very very very shit.

I'm seeking the right word there but you know sometimes you just have to go back to basics was really dull Manchester United parking the bus well not so much parking the buses a number of buses stitched together without wanting to go down the road of disturbing imagery this early in the podcast was very much a human centipede of parked buses.

I know there are many of you out there who would like to fashion your own human centipede involving Jose merino and I guess you know a top and tail of your choice.

You know everybody's got their personal preference but that's what they did from a defensive point of view and you're thinking God 160 million pounds you spent on players

Pogba the world's most expensive player Mickey Tarzan who doesn't seem to play the the by guys playing its center half they spend a huge amount of money Abraham of it.

Of course they're paying him 354 grand a week.

Zlatan up top you bring in all these players and you play like like that I know it's merino and I know it's like this is what he does and that's what we should come to expect but God why does he sort of get a free pass for that kind of stuff people talk about it being like a tactical master class.

But it's it's not really it's not any different to the way that Sunderland would play if they went to all traffic or the way that Sunderland would play if they you know if they can't any of the big teams you try and defend make sure they have no chances and if you can sneak a goal then all the better but the first thing is like don't concede of course

Manchester United can probably do it better because of the quality of players that they have.

You know it's easier not easy but easier for them to defend and stay organized and well drilled and have a coach obviously who's who's well into doing all that but you know people if it was another manager he got absolutely roasted and the key difference of course between Manchester United and Sunderland is that Sunderland can't pay 100 million pounds for supposedly one of the best midfielders in the world who's playing like I don't know it's a bit like buying an airplane for 100 million pounds and you find out it can't fly it can only drive along the road it's kind of.

Oh well this is a bit fucking underwhelming I was expecting a bit more from this airplane I thought it would be able to fly and shit but no all you can do is just drive it around.

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