Hello, this is the game podcast from The Times and I'm Natalie Sawyer.

Joining Gregor Robertson and I today it is Jonathan Northcroft.

Jonathan, good to have you with us today.

How are you? How was your trip to Brighton?

Saturday was a good day in terms of, it was great to be back at a football match.

Which I thought the, all the sort of protocols and things worked far better than I could have imagined.

It was it was it was brilliant since in football it was a good game.

The bit that I really haven't missed about this job and I had to confront again with sitting on a motorway.

Oh yeah.

Reunited with the M1 and that wasn't a happy reunion.

But apart from that, football was great.

Nice to be back in a stadium. It was a, oh even a

story to write about. Yeah, what did you make of all of that what happened then in

that game? Well, I mean, I think Arsenal sometimes just the modern Arsenal just going to self-parady sometimes

and I think that game is an example where I'm not the first to observe it but the lack of backbone shown by certain players in failing

to close out that game that was there for the taking they played well they were

Brighton were good but I thought you know know, Arsenal was slightly better and they

went one nail up. But the lack of kind of fiber to see out that game, the lack of kind of resolve,

that contrasted with full time when they'd lost the game and they

all wanted to have a have a go at Mopay and suddenly everybody found their kind of fighting

spirit again and Gwen Dusia is the ultimate example of that.

I feel, I really feel for Arsenal fans.

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