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Welcome to the Athletic FFC podcast with me, Ayur Akema Lerre.

Arsenal has six points clear at the top of the Premier League and Eberichi Eze has been playing a starring role so far.

So how important has their summer business been?

Here with us today we have our Arsenal correspondence, James McNiculus, who was at the

Emirates. We've also got Adam Crafton as well, our Monday regular. Right, James, come on.

What a day at the Emirates for Arsenal, beating Spurs 4-1 in a North London Derby. Wow,

Arsenal fans must be jubilant.

I think so, yeah, going six points clear at the top of the Premier League table.

Heber Eze scoring a hat trick in his first North London Derby, having declined to join Spurs in the summer.

It's kind of storybook stuff really for Arsenal fans and they thoroughly enjoyed

themselves at the Emirates Stadium on Sunday. So yeah, a fantastic weekend for them as well with

60 dropping points at Newcastle. So things are looking very good for the gunners right now.

Yeah. What did you think of the match, Adam? What did you think of Spurs? The golfing class showed in many respects?

Yeah, right. I just said this before the podcast, but it does feel like the only people that don't really fully recognize maybe yet how good Arsenal are might be Arsenal fans because of like the experience of the last

few years where there is this kind of I think prediposition is that a word um supposition that

things might go wrong at some stage but actually you know from a more objective standpoint

I think the coach has been building to this for a very long time.

The squad is incredibly strong.

I think, and this isn't to take anything away from Arsenal,

I do think the field this year is probably as generous as it's been for quite a while.

And I do think there is the potential there for Arsenal to really pull away

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