Hello and welcome to a brand new R-Splug R-Cast right here on R-Splug.com. How are you? Hope

you're well. Hope you had a very happy Christmas. If you're celebrating, hope you had a lovely time

at friends, family, or perhaps even some acquaintances or friends of friends. However, open you are to

having those people in your life around Christmas time, whatever you did, hope you had a fine time.

You ate well, drank well, and all was good and happy and peaceful with you. It is going to be a pretty

no frills episode of the show today. I have to say because people who were or who would ordinarily

be potential guests for the show to discuss the Brighton game are doing their festive thing. They're

hanging out with their friends and their family. They've got their phones off. They've got their emails

off or they're not looking at their email and in truth. I think at this time of the year, it's

all right to give people a bit of distance and not hassle them to appear on a podcast. Nevertheless,

we are going to look ahead to the game against Liverpool and the one person I suppose that I could

hassle or rope into doing something or giving some of their time at this time of the year is the

mug smasher and he will be along. We'll have a chat about Arsenal Liverpool in a few other

bits in just a few moments time. Just to take a moment as well to reflect on what happened to Brighton.

The one one draw I have to say was really disappointing. The performance, particularly in the second

half was really, really poor. Maybe the first half was more frustrating because we were definitely

on top of the game early on. We started very well. We scored after seven minutes. Brighton were

pressed back in their own half. We had total control of the ball, total control of possession and

the ball are the same fucking thing. I'm talking about territory. We had them pushed right back,

but I thought we played a bit conservatively, a bit passively. We didn't really try and turn

the screw and it was one of those as I was watching it going. We could very well pay a price

for not going for this game, for not really getting it by the scruff of the neck after the early

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