Hello and welcome to a brand new arse blog, arsecast, right here on arseblog.com.

How are you? Hope you well. Thank you very much indeed, as always, for being here.

Hope you've had a good week basking in the glow of the North London

Derby and not being stressed out and freaked out and worried and anything else by the midweek

football because there hasn't been any midweek football for the first time in quite a long time.

And I have to say it's been, it's been good. There's been so much football, so much talking,

so much analysis, so much to debate and discuss. To have a week of nothing has been quite pleasant

indeed, because I don't think, apart from the interlal, which is, which is, why am I speaking

like this? I have no idea. I just meant to say which is, which is, the interlal, which is, why am I speaking like this? I have no idea.

I just meant to say which is, which is.

The interval, which is taking place in March,

is probably the last time we'll get to just decompress

because all going well and hopefully all does go well

is going to be mad after that.

Mad, just the run-in to May to the end of the Premier League season,

with the FAA Cup still running, and of course,

the interlull begins after the Carabaut Cup final,

so we could go into that one feeling pretty damn good,

or, you know, not.

But I don't really want to consider that alternative at this moment in time.

Anyway, I do hope you've had a good, nice, quiet week, recharging the batteries for the weekend and beyond.

And for today's show, we're going to cover a lot of topics delivered to us in the form of statements.

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