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And the chance to win a pound or three. Hello and welcome to a brand new Arsblog, Arscast, right here on arseblog.com.

How are you?

Hope you're well.

Thank you very much indeed.

As always, for being here.

We're carrying on our tradition.

Can you call it a tradition?

I don't know if it's tradition is the right word, but doing our post-game arscasts for you the day after the game. Tradition is more like when everyone in the

village wears a strange costume with a goat mask and two hikers who happen to pass by, stop at the

local inn for some sustenance and then find themselves in a horrific situation where they're put inside a giant basket and set on fire while all the goat mask people dance around singing a really terrible creepy song this usually happens on halloween as you know that is the more traditional definition of tradition, if you know what I mean.

This is just more a change of schedule.

Anyway, we're here, and it is the morning after our 1-0 defeat to Inter Milan in the Champions League,

a game which I think has some interesting aspects to it.

There's the context of our recent run of fixtures and results and performances which have not been particularly great, but then there's also the context of playing

the Italian champions away from home and the way I think this game was decided on very, very fine

margins. So let's get into it. And with me to do that this morning is Phil Costa. Hello,

Phil. Morning, Andrew. How are we doing? Do you know, all right? Voice crack there. Again,

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