The only way to score is, of course, to play with a handbreak-off.

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

I'm joined as always by the writers of the Athletic, Amy Lawrence and James McNicholas and the former Arsenal

former former former quarterback Lee Dixon. Hello, everyone. Morning. Morning. Morning. Nice to speak to you.

Now, before we get going, we're all missing football at the moment. It's been,

I don't know, what, 10, 11 weeks since we last saw a competitive game, certainly in this country.

I wanted to ask what everyone's missing about football. Lee, I'm going to start with you. What are you

missing about football? Well, because I work in football, as in the TV side of things, I actually get a massive

buzz when I'm on the way to a game, depending, irrelevant of whose the game is.

And I obviously do a game most Saturdays, most Sundays, the odd one during the week.

So Saturday morning for me is a proper buzz because I'm thinking about the game.

I'm thinking about my performance.

I'm a prepped, I'm ready.

There's no real, apart from the fact I don't have to put any kit on and run out and make a fool of myself.

I don't actually, there's not a lot of difference with my mindset.

I'm excited, I'm looking forward to the game.

So that buzz just before the game starts and making sure you're prepped and all that lot.

And I guess that's the same, you know,

the same for fans as well,

that expecting sort of nervousness that you have before a game.

I still get that every single game I go to.

And it doesn't matter whether I'm down at Brighton or Southampton

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