Episode 866: Moaners 0-1 "Time-Wasters"
Arseblog Arsecast, The Arsenal Podcast
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4.8 • 6.9K Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2026
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
In this episode I'm joined first by Tom Canton to discuss Arsenal's 1-0 win over Brighton on Wednesday evening. The Gunners turned a shaky start into an early goal, and we chat about the key moments of the game played in a heated atmosphere. There's analysis of our second half substitutions, big defensive performances from Gabriel and Piero Hincapie, the comments pre and post game from Fabian Hurzeler and Mikel Arteta's response to them, and Man City dropping points to Nottingham Forest in what feels like a pivotal night in the title race.
Then it's a pleasure to welcome Ian Wright back to the show, to discuss the unique pressures that come at this point of a season, his experiences of it as a player and now as a fan, the media narrative that surrounds Arsenal from all sides, and Bukayo Saka making his 300th appearance for the club.
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| 0:00.0 | 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. I'm pretty sure you're all right this morning. If you're an Arsenal fan, why wouldn't you be all right? |
| 0:40.3 | You've just seen your team win. |
| 0:42.3 | A very tricky game. |
| 0:43.3 | Last night at the Amex, it was Moneers nil, time was |
| 0:48.3 | Wasters, one. |
| 0:50.3 | And I say that with my tongue very firmly in my cheek. |
| 0:55.0 | Arsenal annoying the entire world by winning games of football in completely legitimate ways. |
| 1:01.0 | Yet somehow we're being painted as evil, villains, some kind of dastardly nefarious force that is |
| 1:08.0 | somehow ruining the game of football as we all know it, why would Arsenal do this? |
| 1:14.5 | And the answer, of course, is A, to try and win the Premier League, and B, well, there is no B. |
| 1:20.1 | B might be a consequence of winning the Premier League, which is annoying the fuck out of everybody |
| 1:24.5 | else. And if that's what happens by virtue of us winning the Premier |
| 1:27.6 | League, well, I'm very much on board, I have to tell you. It's quite funny, isn't it? This |
| 1:33.2 | sort of idea that like, well, listen, Fabian Herzlir, what did he say afterwards? Among many things |
| 1:38.9 | that he said, and we'll talk about those in a bit more detail in this particular episode, |
| 1:43.3 | one of the things he said was Arsenal |
| 1:45.2 | try and do everything to win. Doesn't every team try and do everything to win? What were Fabian |
| 1:50.9 | Herzlars pregame comments about? They're about giving Brighton an advantage because he's trying |
| 1:56.1 | to do everything to win. Why is it bad for Arsenal to try and do everything to win, but it's okay for everyone |
| 2:02.2 | else to try and do everything to win when they're playing Arsenal? It's almost as if there's some |
| 2:07.1 | kind of hypocritical double standards going on here. I don't want to shock you or alarm you, |
| 2:13.3 | but I think that might be the case. Anyway, we're going to talk about all of that in this particular episode. |
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