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

Hope you're well. Thank you for being here as always after what has been I guess a marginally better week for Arsenal than in recent times we've won a Premier League game.

And on one of the greatest European nights in this club's history we drew two two with standardly age to finish top of our group because I'm trying to frank for God beaten by Vittoria.

If that is not the magic of the Europa League then I don't know what is.

Well I do know what it is. It's this bit from BT Sport last night when Martin Keone was supposed to be in the studio with Owen Hargreaves and Jake Humphreys and towards the end of the broadcast before they moved on to the next game.

Jake Humphreys the presenter decided to have a little dig at Martin Keone a little sort of take a joke at his expense. I don't think and I don't know Martin Keone very well at all but from few things I've read here and there.

I don't know that he necessarily likes it when a joke is made at his expense and this is I think one of the greatest interactions I've heard on a live broadcast in quite some time. This is what happened.

Well thanks for coming and joining us the fact you are like made the national papers they can now write about the fact that after sitting there for a cut of hours you're done.

You a good look. Somebody jumped in front of a train was I to get that. I do want to say that. That's horrible. Absolutely. We feel for them and their family. Absolutely. Listen thank you very much for being with us Martin. Thank you for being here.

I think that's what they call real life partridge or something real life Island partridge going on there from Jake Humphreys Martin Keone having none of your bants mate in just stick it.

We are going to talk about this game. We're going to talk about the to to draw what standardly age I don't I don't know that it's a game that's worth exploring in any huge amount of detail but we'll pick up bits and pieces of it now in a moment with our guests.

We are recording late on Thursday night so making sure that we've got a podcast for you on Friday. We will of course be looking ahead to the man city game a bit as well and I'm sure we'll talk about Freddy and the the search for a new head coach and how that's all going.

I don't know what we're going to talk about because basically we haven't talked about it yet sometimes sometimes what happens when I put this particular podcast together is that you do the interview first.

So you know you've talked about you can lead in but I'm just kind of guessing I know what I can ask the chaps and I guess they're going to answer that unless you know the conversation goes off and a weird and strange tangent.

And takes us someplace we didn't expect who knows but those are kind of the ballpark areas in which I'm going to be talking to the guests so we might as well get on with it first stop it is Andrew Allen hello Andrew good evening.

And we have the man from east lower hello to you Jim good evening. I am all right I'm going to start with you Jim because you wanted to talk specifically about the first half.

We don't want to talk about the first there's no need there's no need to talk about the first half and I'm just sort of curious as to your your overall thoughts on this because you know as ever there are people talking online about the game and people.

I was lots of opinions very many opinions and I think one of the opinions that I heard afterwards was Martin Keon saying that Freddie Umberg should have played basically the same team that he played against West Ham on Monday night to sort of introduce a measure of continuity into.

And you know his tenure as as head coach or interim head coach or you want to call him it just seems very strange to me I know it was a little bit touching goes a bit dice it's in light we got there in the end we got over the line we finished top of the group and that's kind of as far as it goes.

You know this was a game we really did have to make changes for.

Yeah I would have more sympathy with that point of view if we were really clinging on to get you know to to stand.

The group because it is pretty much our best route into the Champions League but as it was we only had to not lose by something like four or five nil.

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