Hello and welcome to a brand new ArsBlog, Arscast, right here on arsblog.com.

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Arsenal's tour of Singapore and Hong Kong is over. The team traveling back today,

Friday. They'll probably get a few days off and then back to the grind on Monday into training,

preparing for the last two games of preseason at the Emirates against Villarreal and Athletic Bilbao.

And then, before you know it all

eyes will be on Old Trafford for the opening day of the season on our first game against

Manchester United the game yesterday against spurs in Hong Kong well you know there are a lot of

opinions out there about the performance, about some of the things

we saw, about the result itself. So that will form the basis of today's conversation. We'll be

talking about that game, some of the things we saw, some of the issues which have cropped up,

of course, understanding that it is preseason, that you have to look at it through that lens.

But there are a few interesting bits and pieces that we can get our teeth into in just a few

moments time.

Before that, I do just want to give you a heads up that our Fantasy Football League, which is

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