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Hello, I'm Ian Stone.

Welcome to Handbreak-off, the Arsenal podcast, brought to you by The Athletic.

I'm here with James McNicholas and Art de Roche. Good morning, chaps. Morning, Ian.

Morning. James, it's nice. You managed to get back home from Brighton on saturday just about just i've just finished

wringing out my clothes and my skin uh from a very wet and windy day on the south coast yeah quite well

i mean it is one of those away matches that um you think oh brighton sounds like, oh, everyone want to do that.

I mean, I went to Bournemouth away, and that was a bit of a nightmare.

I was going to ask you, actually, those sort of away trips, as an opening question,

those sort of away trips where you think, oh, I must do that.

But then you sort of actually do it and think, actually, this is a bit of a nightmare.

James, we will come to you

first brighton is really the one isn't it though yeah it feels so appealing you know the english

riviera um you think it's going to be this picturesque scene and of course you're still in the

united kingdom so the weather's still terrible and getting to the ground is a bit of a pain, getting out of the ground.

Actually, at the weekend was a bit of a nightmare in terms of sort of the cues for the trains afterwards, etc.

Which doesn't help when the rain's pouring down on top of you too.

I'm trying to think of other ones that kind of promise more than they deliver. I mean, I actually think, as if you've ever been to the new camp, Barcelona,

but that's a bit of a nightmare for in a way.

In terms of the fact, you're sort of kept in a bird's nest, essentially,

at the very top of the stadium,

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