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Hello I'm Ian Stone.

This is Handbreak Off, the Arsenal podcast, brought to you by The Athletic.

We're going to chat about Arsenal's 4-1 victory over Astonville at the Emberate Stadium last night and look ahead to Bournemouth

on Saturday. Got busy, busy podcast house this morning, joined by Amy Lawrence, Art de Roche and

James McNicholas. Good morning. Hello. Morning, Ian. Good morning.

Morning. I was going to ask, how are you? But, Amy, you're a bit bunged up, aren't you really?

Yeah, I mean, you know, the decongestant of a 4-1 victory is definitely making, uh,

needing tissues for the right reasons rather than the wrong ones

is, is okay. Good, good. No tears. Yeah, well, quiet, no tears. By the way, when Gabriel

went down, whether he was feeling an injury or some tightness, this is just where he came off.

And he was speaking to the physio and Pierre and Caprié came over and accidentally stood on his

hand.

I don't know if people saw this.

Any comical moments where he made a bad situation worse, James?

I mean, of course we've all done it, haven't we?

Yeah, many times.

I mean, even yesterday I took my son to the theatre. I was trying to do too many things at once,

spilt coffee all down a white hoodie,

tried to use a bottle of water I had on me to reduce the stain, just spread it across the

entire thing. Yeah, I do that every day in my life, basically, make something worse.

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