Hello and welcome to a brand new ArsBlog Arscast right here on arseblog.com. How are you? Hope you well. Thank you very much indeed, as always, for being here.

Wherever you are in the world, I hope you and yours are safe and well,

and that you've navigated your way through the first interlull of the season without any

hassle or drama. And it's been quite a busy international break when it comes to the

Arsenal players. Some of them have gone away and really delivered for their countries,

and you hope that that is something

that they can bring back to Arsenal now that the real football is back underway or is about

to get back underway. That, that, that is something. Do you ever just say something and it

sounds really weird? That just happened there when I said that,

that, that. I mean, it's fine. It works. But it's sort of like when you say a word over and

over and over again and it loses meaning. It just lost meaning there for me. Temporarily,

I'm fine now again. Just my brain being a bit weird. So I'll have to have a word with it

later on, sit it down, give it a good talking to and tell it that that's not something that it should be doing when I'm recording. It's off-putting. Anyway, we have plenty to chat about in this particular episode. As I said, we're going to talk about some of the Arsenal players that have been away and talk about Arsenal as we recommence the Premier League on Saturday

against Nottingham Forest. We're also going to talk a little bit about some more general

football stories because it's been an interlull. There isn't a great deal going on from an Arsenal

perspective. So we do have some questions from our Discord members and we've got a few of those

questions about more general football topics and who better to talk about those things with Arsenal and other stuff. It's my pleasure to welcome back to the Arscast. Philippe O'Clare. Hello, Philippe. Good morning, afternoon, evening to you wherever you listen to us from. Yes, yes. It could be any time of the day or night when people are listening to this, but it is.

Yes, it's always, it's always 12 somewhere.

I was told by a Belgian friend who I was, I could see hitting the beer quite early in the morning.

That was his answer.

He was right, of course. Well, yes, I suppose. early in the morning. That was his answer. He was right, of course.

Well, yes, I suppose.

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