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Good afternoon, I'm Ian Stone. This is Handbreak-off, the podcast, brought to you by The Athletic. I'm joined this week by our regular guest, The Athletic Writers, James McNicholas and Amy Lawrence. Good afternoon, guys. Good afternoon. Hello. I was expecting slightly smileier faces, but you know what? That's okay. We'll get to that in a short while.

How was your evening? Was it all right? Is it good evening last day? It was eventful.

Yes, it was. We'll get right on to that. On the line, as usual. Even he may have a smile on his face this morning. It's Mr. Lee Dixon. Good afternoon, Lee.

Good afternoon. That's not a smile, that's wind. Well, I'm glad you're on the line.

Now, Lee, I should say before we get going, Lee was getting us in the mood for Arsenal v Chelsea by posting videos

of some what I'd call very 90s tackles on Graham Lassau by him and vice versa.

I think VAR might have had something to say about one or two of them.

I think my favourite, I mean, I'm assuming we've seen these guys.

My favourite was when, well, I say Graham essentially outpaced Lee.

And Lee...

What?

I knew you'd react, sized him down and then made the sign that said he was diving.

That one did make me laugh.

I retweeted them because they were done by.

I was working for NBC last night and they thought it would be funny to drag up that

because obviously I worked with Graham and I was sitting next to him doing the commentary at NBC

last night at Stanford Bridge.

So they thought it would be fun to put those on.

But his title was miles worse than mine I was trying to side him down from the sides but he head on

went over the top of the ball and I've still got the scar on my shin to prove that so I believe

you might have that was a nasty one sorry Amy you were going to say Lee when you're doing your

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