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The inter-lull is over.

It's done.

It's finished kaput.

That is the last inter-lull that we're going to have until March of next year.

I just left a little bit of silence there for you at home or walking the dog or in the

gym or you in the gym.

I don't know.

This thing to this, wherever it might be, a chance for you to make an exclamation of relief,

a kind of, or a few, one of those because this last inter-lull has been absolutely unquestionably,

irredeemably painful because it's taken so long it came off the back of that really

terrible result against Ashton Villa.

We've had issues with players going all over the place with injuries, with fatigue, with

travel, with a couple of arsenal players.

Muhammad Elmdeni and say, Kolasynatch testing positive for COVID-19.

So within this, what feels like an extraordinarily lengthy two weeks, there's been an awful lot

of just pain.

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