Episode 2 of Yet Another Arsenal Podcast:Listen on: YouTube & Instagram (search Yet Another Arsenal Podcast) Mailbag: yaap49@gmail.com (note: YAAp has two A’s)

A very Arsenal week: rotated side handles Brighton, a ruthlessly professional 2–0 at Burnley, Viktor Gyökeres looks the part, Declan Rice is a walking cheat code (and hair icon), and the set-piece machine keeps printing goals. VAR remains a farce, Sky’s broadcast made it feel like Italia ’90, and we’re already juggling festive fixture chaos. Quick look ahead to Prague in Europe, Sunderland away, and the looming North London knees-up.

• 00:00 Welcome back + Brighton cup thoughts (rotation, rust, job done)

• 06:30 Broadcast gripe: SD in 2025?! + nostalgia for phone-line commentary

• 08:30 Young striker’s debut, minutes for the fringe, and Arteta’s rotation calculus

• 09:45 Mosquera chat: recovery pace, reading danger, and lowering the Saliba drop-off

• 13:15 League Cup philosophy: play kids to get there, play the first team to win it

• 15:20 Burnley away preview → respect the banana skin, demand professionalism

• 17:10 The sleeves debate (tradition vs marginal gains) + suits off the coach (!)

• 19:45 Gyökeres: running channels, chaos creation, “just get the job done”

• 21:10 Tap-ins are art too: striker’s goals > pretty goals discourse

• 22:20 Training-ground throw → boom: the second goal routine

• 24:20 Declan Rice Appreciation Society (engine, carry, deliveries… and the barnet)

• 29:40 Saliba–Gabriel (ice & fire) + Timber love + modern positionless patterns

• 34:10 Second-half control: win without drama, Saka’s off-day & keeper saves

• 38:00 Trossard’s spiky edge, numbers vs vibes

• 40:20 Prague away & Sunderland preview; away-day tales; fans on tour

• 41:50 The Goalkeeper Question™: distribution, nerves, and meritocracy

• 44:30 Spurs & Chelsea bits: traditions, banter, and festive pressure games

• 49:20 Admin & mailbag—get in touch, suggest segments, send your away-day pics

• Rotation done right: 10 changes will look disjointed; the point is minutes + clean sheet.

• Set-piece supremacy: It’s a feature, not a bug—goals when it matters.

• Gyökeres’ value: Occupies CBs, stretches the pitch, creates easy goals for others.

• Declan Rice: Dead-ball delivery, 30-yard carries, first to last action. Team identity runs through him.

• Tradition vs pragmatism: Sleeve length & suits vs player comfort and marginal gains.

• The GK debate: If the No.1 role is “be elite with feet,” then selection should reflect actual form.

• “Be perfectly consistent rather than consistently perfect.”

• “Tap-ins are worth the same as worldies; we’re not curating a gallery, we’re winning a league.”

• “Rice is hair, legs, and laws of physics—pick any two.”

• “We rotated, we bored them, we won. That’s what grown-up teams do.”

• Europe (Prague, away): Handle business, nick a set-piece, manage legs.

• Sunderland (A): Treat like a nightmare to avoid one. Professionalism again.

• International break: Good for hamstrings, bad for happiness.

• Derby watch: Spurs on the horizon—bank the points, bank the noise

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We looked across the media landscape and realised something shocking: nobody, anywhere, ever talks about Arsenal. So we’ve stepped in to fill that yawning gap in the market.

In this debut episode of Yet Another Arsenal Podcast (YAAP for short, or just “the Yappers”), Marc and Rich introduce themselves, reminisce about Wembley ’87, Anfield ’89, and every traumatic hamstring since, then get properly stuck into:

• 🧱 Why “boring” Arsenal are actually the most organised chaos merchants in England

• ⚙️ Arteta’s trust issues and the mysterious Circle of Trust™

• 📊 Corners, throw-ins and other dark arts of Set-Piece FC

• ⚡ Palace review and Brighton preview — professional wins, minimal palpitations

• 👟 Gyökeres: menace or myth? (and what exactly he scored with…)

Along the way: misplaced stats, nostalgia for broken shins, marginal gains, and at least three sentences that would make TalkSport cry.

Temperature check: Marc – 92 °C (optimistic, delusional, still thinks it’s 1989) Rich – 85 °C (defensive solidarity, mild anxiety about injuries)

💌 Mailbag for next week: What would make Arsenal’s attack feel less boring — more shots, more risk, or just more screaming at the TV?

📩 Email: @YappersPod