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Hello, I'm Ian Stone. This is Handbreak-off, the Arsenal podcast, brought to you by The Athletic.

So the Arsenal return to competitive action this weekend when they face Manchester City in the Community Shield.

And we'll be talking all things preseason, David Ray up, and looking ahead to the game on Sunday.

I'm joined by Amy Lawrence and Adrian Clark.

Hello.

Hello. Good morning. Morning.

Nice to see you both. I can't see your chin at the moment, Tony. I can see you, but not your chin.

I like the fact that you did that as a singular as opposed to a plural. I really appreciate that.

At my age, I'll take that as a win.

Arsend van der We was at the game last night. We played Monaco. A statue was unveiled a few days ago outside the Emirates. We happy with a pose, by the way, guys, before we did talk about it,

but it looks good, didn't it? Amy, did you actually see it? Did were you there?

I did. I first saw it when it was covered in like removal van blankets, actually.

I popped down to have a look when it was being sort of slowly lowered from the crane.

But you could sort of see the shape of it and then sort of popped home. And a little later,

you know, apparently the great unveiling was just a couple of builders ripping off the blankets.

So it wasn't massively ceremonial, which is not quite what I was expecting.

But I think it looks fantastic.

And I swung by after the game last night against Monaco.

And there was almost a queue of fans who were there to have a look and admire it and take pictures and take selfies.

And it's overdue. It looks great. It's fantastic to have it there.

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