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Hello, I'm Adrian Clark, subbed in today for Ian Stone,

and you're listening to Handbrake off, the Arsenal podcast, brought to you by The Athletic.

I'm pleased to say I've got two members of the Athletics, Arsenal A team, keeping me company today.

Yes, Amy Lawrence and James McNicholas have submitted their letters of intent to take part, which is a real relief.

Hello, guys.

Hi, yeah.

Hi, Adrian.

Hello, what a week, hey, to take over from Stoney.

Very, very strange.

On and off the pitch, we're certainly not short of topics to discuss, even though one of them,

and I think you might know what that is, dominates an agenda. We'd probably all rather not have to discuss even though one of them and I think you might know what that is dominates an agenda we'd probably all rather not have to discuss but we must have

afraid so that is where we will start but before we get to the nuts and bolts of what

an earth might happen in the coming days my opening question to you guys today is this

before Sunday evening's turn of events.

What decision made by the club has most disappointed you in the past?

Amy, let's start with you if I can.

I think I'm going to go back to the Arsenal Bond, which takes us to an era where football was changing quite radically.

In the aftermath of the Hillsborough disaster and the onset of Orsita Stadia, Arsenal decided to fund the rebuilding of the North Bank into a big two-tier, very modern for its time, stand with seats in it.

And the money was going to come a lot from fans who had to stump up, I think it was that one and a half thousand pounds each, something like that, if memory serves, for basically the privilege of buying your season ticket in the place where you used to go and watch football.

And we campaigned quite vigorously at the time. It was a good era for fan activism. I was reminding myself of when Maggie Thatcher

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