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

Hope you're well. It's been a weird week hasn't it? Still feels a bit like a kind of post Christmas New Year hangover where you're not quite sure what day it is.

I think Monday Night Football has an impact on that as well. I noticed that our FA Cup 4th round tie with Bournemouth has also been chosen for a Monday Night broadcast by BT Sport.

So, you know, fuck you BT Sport, fuck you right in your fucking fuck place. I'm tired of Monday Night Football. I hate Monday Night kickoffs and we seem maybe it's just me but we seem to have had far more of those than is normal.

Certainly more than is acceptable to me anyway and that should be the baseline for this thing. Somebody did make a point to me very recently when I said you know Monday Night Football, Brawcasters, being monsters and all that kind of stuff that you know we do benefit as a football club from the Brawcasters giving us lots of money which we can then spend on players like Nicholas Pepe and all that kind of stuff.

You know, I think that's fair. I think that's fair but at the same time, fuck them. Now I know Bournemouth away isn't necessarily the longest trip that our away fans could have on a Monday Night but it's still a reasonable journey to get down, get back, got to get to work the next morning and all the rest and it's you know maybe fine for us who are going to be sitting at home watching it on TV.

But while that's happening, we'll have had a weekend of of pundits and TV talkers and radio mouths and all these people talking about how the magic of the cup it's not the same as it used to be. The FA Cup used to be such a wondrous thing and now look somehow the magic of this competition has been diminished.

I mean I wonder could it be anything to do with playing the games on Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday just so you fuckers can put it on the TV. I know we all want to see the games.

We're the thirst that they're quenching. Is this our fault? I'm not sure it is. It's not our fault. We all want to see our football team. That's the nature of football fans.

That's something that can always be exploited but those that run the game and manage the competitions do they not have some responsibility for for maintaining the magic of the cup like the magic of sitting down with your little fella.

Maybe it's the first time he's watched a game on TV sat down to watch his team with his dad. Come on there son. Me and you will sit down in front of the TV and we'll watch the match.

And we'll forge a bond that will live for as long as we're together on this earth because that's what happens.

Father's son's football football club support. It runs through our very veins. Let me get the remote control right there.

Well it doesn't it doesn't appear to be. It doesn't appear to be on the TV. How do I watch this game? Oh that's right.

I've got to go to a website of a betting company and place a bet or deposit some money in an account so I can livestream an FA Cup game via my favorite betting company.

This, this son is what football is all about. Don't you ever forget this. This is a special day in your life. The magic of the cup you fucking fuckers.

Anyway, I appear to have gone off on a little bit of a tangent there. We've got a very busy show for you today because we are playing Crystal Palace tomorrow and we will be getting a Crystal Palace view of their season of the game and Wilfred Zahav course who was very close.

Well not close to joining Arsenal. He was a player that Arsenal were interested in during the summer and he very much wanted to join Arsenal.

So we're going to talk to Dan from HLTCO about that a little bit later on. We'll also be finding out why signing another SESC Fabregas.

Imagine if we could find another SESC Fabregas knocking around Barcelona or anywhere else for that matter. Why that is no longer going to be a possibility for Arsenal or any other English club.

That's coming a bit later on as well, but first to kick us off today, Micka Larte has impressed most of us I think with the impact that he has had as the Arsenal manager in a few short games he appears to have done things which have made a group of players who if they had all the medical textbooks in the world still could not tell the difference between their arses and their elbows and fashion them into something that looks like a football team.

How has he done it? What are the things that he has done and what might he do from a tactical point of view? Who better to talk about that than Michael Cox who many of you will know as Zonal marking. Hi Michael.

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