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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 be talking

Arsenal's 2-0 win at home to Levituckus last night, send us through to the Champions League

Court of finals, and we'll look ahead to the small matter of the Carabour Cup final against

Manchester City on Sunday afternoon. I'm joined by Amy Lawrence and James McNicholas. Good morning. Morning.

Morning. Morning. Nice to you guys. And now, obviously, we will talk a lot about

Abererachie as his goal. And the celebration for the goal, he was grabbing the Arsenal badge

is what he thought, but he was actually grabbing the middle of his shirt. And then he looked

down, he realized, and then he grabbed the badge. Because I was wondering what he was doing with his shirt. It was just pulling it out, like, you know, when you're hot and you blow down your shirt just to cool you're off a little bit. Any memories of being so confident about something, only to find out you were wrong? I mean, me and James are performers. So that's going to happen on a daily basis, right, James?

Oh yeah. Oh, I've got some good storage from the stage of things that I were convinced were really, really funny and just completely died on their ass.

I once set words to the theme tune to Thomas the Tank Engine where I just listed all the different trains in Thomas the Tank Engine and I was like, this is brilliant, they're going to love this. I'm loving it already. Yeah, I mean, they didn't, Ian, I'll tell you. And the problem was, once you've started the track, it was about three minutes long. So, you know, once you're in it, you're in it. There's kind of no way out.

We saw it through to the end, never to be performed again. But yeah, I'm not short of confidence.

So I often find myself being unduly confident in situations. I'm sure you've had the same.

Oh my God, loads of times. I mean, you know, you stand there and you start talking and you think this

went really well in the bathroom. In the bathroom mirror when I performed it to me. And the problem

is, as you say, James, when you get in to those bits, especially if it's three minutes, you've

started listing Thomas the Tank Engine Trace. What did you, what were you thinking? To the tune of what? To the tune of the

top as tank engine theme tune, but just listing all the trains. I mean, I don't know what was happening. You know, sometimes you wake up in the night and you're like, this is a brilliant idea. This is going to be sort of transcendental. There's going to be a standing evasion at the end. And yeah, I mean, you're wrong.

That's the process, isn't it?

Sometimes you're wrong.

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