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Somehow, as we’re all trying to sort ourselves and decide how we’ll feel and what we’ll do if Manchester City Cheaters Club get punished what we think is enough, or not. Meanwhile, their manager is out there saying ‘I know nothing.’ If you’re of a certain age, you’ll remember Shultz saying that on Hogan’s Heroes. I think I recall it being highly sarcastic, and that he knew everything but didn’t want to get in trouble or be responsible for not being a tattletale. Feels a little like that with Enzo Maresca. Enough talk about the lying cheating blues. If you haven’t checked out my full analysis of what punishment should look like, you’ll find it in Punished: The Sentence Manchester City Deserves.

On this episode, Eric and Matt cover Arsenal’s Champions League match against Lille. Three really lovely goals and who started the goal scoring? None other than defender Jurrien Timber and his magical right foot. We discuss Saka’s key contribution off the bench. There is a quick rundown of the crazy results in the Champions League. We preview the Nottingham Forest match and the challenges they present. Make sure to listen to the end for the 3 quick things and the big number reveal.

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Better, Not good enough

In this episode of the Arsenal Women’s podcast presented by Stateside Gooners, Matt talks about Arsenal’s WSL Match Day 5 against the defending WSL champions Manchester City. Matt spends time re-capping the scores of the rest of the WSL for Match Day 5. Then he dives into the encouraging initial 60 minutes put together by Arsenal. What happened for the rest of the match, nothing good. Matt recaps the first block of games talking about the positives and the negatives. Unfortunately there were more negatives than positives in this first block. Too many ties. Matt runs through the dates for the next block of games highlighting a particularly nasty patch of games Barca - London City - Lyon, oof.

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On this episode, Kevin and Matt recap Arsenal’s victory over Leeds in Match Week 6 of the EPL before previewing the Champions League Week 2 game against Lille.

The first 55 minutes of the Leeds game were unworthy of our deepest analysis so we go through it kinda quickly. But we give our full attention spend to the last 35 minutes and extra time because those were exciting!

Lille bring Olivier Giroud, our beloved goal scorer, back to the Emirates to face his former club. Is there anyone expecting anything but a warm welcome? Other than that time in Baku, he’s always been one of our favorites.

We have some fun with Three quick things and end things with this episode’s big number reveal - what is 48 and why does it matter?

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