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

How are you? Hope you're keeping safe and well. Hope everything is okay with you and yours in your world wherever you are.

Thank you very much indeed for being here. Thanks for listening as ever. It is a busy, busy, busy show today.

So much so that it could have been made by bees because bees as we know are particularly busy as our ants.

But ants, they don't do good podcasts. Anyway, like I said, it's a busy show.

We have got some discussion of midweek carabou cup action. The players who are on the pitch and some of the players who weren't on the pitch.

We've got some insight into our brand new goalkeeping signing, Alex Roonerson. So we'll be talking to somebody who has interviewed him and who knows his career journey from Iceland to Arsenal.

We'll have some Liverpool chat a bit later on with one of the lands from the Anfield Rapp to give us a bit of flavor.

You might say ahead of Monday night's clash at Anfield in which Arsenal will be looking to make it three wins in a row against the Premier League champions.

This one I think will be a little bit different from the last one. Of course, there are Premier League points to play for, the community shield, etc.

But anyway, we'll be talking about that as well as that. We've got a chance for you to win one of two t-shirts from 4-4-t.com and Arsenal t-shirt for you.

So it's all in here between now and the end of this particular show. So you know, stay tuned for all that kind of crack, as they say.

We are going to start with what went on in midweek though Arsenal beating Lester 2-0 at the King Power Stadium in the third round of the carabou cup.

Now I've spoken on this podcast and I think I've written on the website about how for me anyway, it's kind of interesting to hear Micka Lartetta talking to the players in the games because there's no fans, there's no crowd noise, there was no crowd noise in the broadcast that I discovered came across just by accident on the internet.

It was just there. I just picked it up and I didn't know who's it was. So I just, you know, anyway.

But you know, there was no crowd noise and there hasn't been further Premier League games for me and you can hear Micka Lartetta talking to the players in the various languages that he does.

The other night though, to listen to too much of Brandon Rogers from I liking, it wasn't the same as listening to to Artetta,

barcowd instructions in Spanish and then in French and then in English and what have you this flitting between the many languages that he speaks.

But Brandon Rogers, I didn't realize this, maybe you didn't realize this either, but his managerial style on the sideline is like somebody talking to their dog.

Because all you hear is him saying, good boy, oh good boy, oh, who's a good boy, you're a very good boy, you're a great boy.

Brandon loves you, you're a great boy, good boy, good boy. Kind of creep me out a little bit, I have to say.

I'm tempted next time we're playing Lester to put the fake crowd noise on. So I didn't enjoy that bit, although I did enjoy the Lester midfielder,

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