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right here on Arse blog.com. How are you?

Hope you're well. Thank you very much indeed as always for being here. I am putting this out on Thursday

evening because I was due to have a chat with James Bange and at the time of

recording or just before the time of recording, we had not heard anything about the

FA charge that Michael Artetta was landed with after the Newcastle game, as comments after the Newcastle game, although we were expecting something this week in terms of a decision.

And just before we started recording, it dropped and James and I have had a couple of minutes to read over the decision that's been made and how it's been arrived at and all the rest and certainly there's a fair bit to get into so I just thought you know given that it's slightly current and all the rest

let's get the podcast out this evening rather than make you guys wait until Friday morning so

without further ado my guest from CBS Sports is James Benge hello James.

Hi Andrew how you doing I'm all right I was you know we were due to record at 4 p.m.

and about five to four I was flicking around on Twitter and my first question to you was going to be

are you kind of surprised that it's taken just so long for us to find out what's going on with Michael Arterta and that FA charge and then

literally as I was flicking around up came the up came the tweet from the

FA spokesperson to say that the charges against Michael Artetta had been

What's the word? Unproven is that what they said? It's yes proven. Not he's not innocent I guess but he's not

guilty. There you go. That's yeah quite a few people have got away with quite a few

things because of that distinction but we've taken a few minutes to sort of read over the 32 page report and the

workings that they you know have gone through to come to this conclusion I was reading it and I was to think

it Jesus this is like this is some process no wonder it's taken quite a lot of

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