Episode 880 - Fried Rice ...
Arseblog Arsecast, The Arsenal Podcast
arseblog.com
4.8 • 6.9K Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2026
⏱️ 70 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
In this episode I'm joined by Lewis Ambrose to chat about the World Cup and some of the main stories from the last few days. We discuss Cape Verde earning a battling point against Spain, how France's attack sparked into second half action against Senegal, the impact of the big name players in this tournament so far, goals from distance, the Arsenal involvement – particularly for England – with some focus on Declan Rice and how the heavy schedule and minutes played this season could be catching up with him. What will that mean for Mikel Arteta's plans for the early part of next season, and influence some transfer market activity?
There's also a quick chat with Jacob from Poorly Drawn Arsenal about his upcoming book which you can win in a competition, and for more details on pre-ordering (and to find the answer to the competition question), go here: https://www.poorlydrawnarsenal.com/zine/
Here's the photo-zine mentioned in the competition – https://lowerblock.com/product/arsenal-champions-again-2025-26/
🌎 Get an exclusive 15% discount on your first Saily data plans! Use code arseblog at checkout. Download Saily app or go to to https://saily.com/arseblog ⛵
Get extra bonus content and help support Arseblog by becoming an Arseblog Member on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/arseblog
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to a brand new arse blog arsecast right here on arseblog.com. How are you? |
| 0:31.5 | Hope you well. Thank you very much indeed, as always, for being here. We are right, well, we're not slap bang in the middle of a World |
| 0:38.4 | Cup, but we're well and truly in the throws of a World Cup. At this point, I think every |
| 0:44.3 | team has played a game, the 750 teams that are in this particular tournament. They've all played. |
| 0:50.1 | There have been some big games, some big goals, some big scorelines, some surprising ones as well, |
| 0:56.0 | and quite a bit of Arsenal interest along the way. |
| 0:59.8 | So that's going to be the focus of this particular episode. |
| 1:03.9 | A little bit later on, I'm going to be talking to Jacob from poorly drawn Arsenal. |
| 1:08.8 | He's got a book out, which is commemorating our title win. |
| 1:12.7 | You know the one when Arsenal won the league in 25, 26. He's put together a lovely little book |
| 1:18.1 | on that. So we're going to talk about the book and give you a chance to win copies of the book. |
| 1:22.1 | We'll also give you the winners of last week's competition, where we are copies of a fantastic |
| 1:26.8 | photo zine from Lower block to give away. |
| 1:29.2 | So we'll give you the winners of that and give you the chance to win one of Jacob's books as well and we'll tell you where you can pre-order it as well. But that's to come. That's to come. Now we're just going to get on with it. We're going to talk World Cup. We're going to talk Arsenal players. we're going to talk Declan Rice and lots more besides. |
| 1:44.8 | And with me to do that this morning is Lewis Ambrose. |
| 1:47.5 | Good morning, Lewis. We're going to talk World Cup. We're going to talk Arsenal players. We're going to talk Declan Rice. And lots more besides. |
| 1:44.8 | And with me to do that this morning is Lewis Ambrose. Good morning, Lewis. Good morning, Andrew. Have you been enjoying the World Cup so far? I tell you what, I've been dipping in and out, you know. I haven't been gorging on the World Cup. I've been snacking on the World Cup, if that makes sense, |
| 2:02.2 | which is maybe not a bad thing. |
| 2:04.2 | I often like... I haven't been gorging on the World Cup. I've been snacking on the World Cup, if that makes sense, which is maybe not a bad thing. |
| 2:04.2 | I often like, you know, when you're a kid or you saw movies or you read books and they would |
| 2:10.2 | talk about a feast, you know, after a great battle, they would all sit down and have a feast. |
| 2:17.8 | And it always sounds great. but like a feast is too much, you know? |
... |
Transcript will be available on the free plan in 25 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from arseblog.com, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of arseblog.com and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.