The Bruised Banana: an Arsenal podcast

January? More like Banuary if you ask us. It's been such a poor month for Arsenal FC that the entire thing should be struck from the calendar forever more. Just start with February from now on. We talk about the games that happened and the various ignominious exits from cup competitions and it's all so grim Alex didn't even show up. Enjoy it.Twitter and Instagram: @tbbpodEmail: bruisedbananapod@gmail.comPlease take the time to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts, Google or wherever you get your pods. It means a great deal to the show and makes it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!

Well, at least we didn't get tonked. The almost ludicrously eventful New Year's Day game against Man City is our sole topic of conversation this week. We applaud the performance, dissect the decision making, and consider what could've been as Albert ‘Lord' Stuivenberg and nameless handsome man so very nearly steer us to victory over the runaway league leaders. Oh, and Stuart Attwell gets a mention or two. Twitter and Instagram: @tbbpodEmail: bruisedbananapod@gmail.comPlease take the time to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts, Google or wherever you get your pods. It means a great deal to the show and makes it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!

We made it. Unlike Prince Philip and the England cricket team, we've actually gone and reached a century. 100 episodes of highs, lows, anthems, crests, sacks, superleagues and sighing. What a ride. To celebrate this milestone, we invited fellow Gooner and full-time pod guru Adam Richardson over to host a bumper end of year Arsenal quiz for the ages (yes, there are anagrams). So, pick up a pen and play along. Let's separate the protagonists from the Primoracs and see out 2021 in style. Thanks so much for listening to the show these last few years. Your support has been immense. Happy New Year!Twitter and Instagram: @tbbpodEmail: bruisedbananapod@gmail.comPlease take the time to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts, Google or wherever you get your pods. It means a great deal to the show and makes it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!

The Process. We've all trusted it. Wholly, and from minute one. Taken it right into our hearts, minds, bodies, and even souls (if they exist). Thomas Aquinas (1225 to 1274) understood the soul to be the first actuality of the living body. Thomas Partey (1993 onwards) was unavailable for comment. And so, with our club captain banished from first team duties with a nasty case of the non-negotiables, Arteta's Arsenal have arrived in that most coveted of all the league placings: fourth. Just in time for the season of goodwill. How's that for Christmas spirit?Twitter and Instagram: @tbbpodEmail: bruisedbananapod@gmail.comPlease take the time to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts, Google or wherever you get your pods. It means a great deal to the show and makes it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!

Yet another Merseyside mauling is the main matter for discussion this week, as we morosely examine the 4-0 loss to Liverpool. Elsewhere, Tom talks us through the giddy glitz and glamour (Boro Primorac, anyone?) of the Arsène Wenger film premiere, while Dan's ever-bulging sack rounds out another episode. Twitter and Instagram: @tbbpodEmail: bruisedbananapod@gmail.comPlease take the time to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts, Google or wherever you get your pods. It means a great deal to the show and makes it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!

Ten games unbeaten and everything in the AFC garden is rosy, even when those bastard hornets fly round and try to sting everything in sight and then get their own crusty, old rose man to try and deadhead all our wonderful daffodils and dandelions and chrysanthemumunums. Anyway, we beat Watford 1 nil. We talk about that, the impact of Lacazette, Tomiyasu's tenacity, and dream January and summer signings. It's a really nice time. Twitter and Instagram: @tbbpodEmail: bruisedbananapod@gmail.comPlease take the time to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts, Google or wherever you get your pods. It means a great deal to the show and makes it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!

Lads, it's Tottenham. It's the history of the Tottenham. Ad infinitum. From bottom of the league to above the August champions in just three games. Maybe that Amazon documentary will be worth watching after all.Twitter and Instagram: @tbbpodEmail: bruisedbananapod@gmail.comPlease take the time to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts, Google or wherever you get your pods. It means a great deal to the show and makes it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!

We mull over what we liked (and disliked) about the 1 nil win at Burnley, including Aaron Ramsdale's commanding presence (liked), Takehiro Tomiyasu's terrific teeth (really liked), and big Sean Dyche's big round head (strongly disliked and denounced). We also chat about Wimbledon, spreadsheets, Spurs and the oddly enduring appeal of listening to football on the radio.Twitter and Instagram: @tbbpodEmail: bruisedbananapod@gmail.comPlease take the time to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts, Google or wherever you get your pods. It means a great deal to the show and makes it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!

It's the no goals, no points, no hope extravaganza! Three games into the new season and rooted to the bottom of the table, we try to make sense of what's gone so spectacularly wrong before promptly giving up and laying the blame squarely at the feet of messrs Xhaka and Arteta because why not, it makes sense, and it's our podcast and we can do whatever we bloody well please, alright? New player anagrams and listener correspondence also feature.Twitter and Instagram: @tbbpodEmail: bruisedbananapod@gmail.comPlease take the time to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts, Google or wherever you get your pods. It means a great deal to the show and makes it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!

It's the return of the Premier League. The top flight. The promised land. And Arsenal are back. Back once again with the renegade Xhaka, 3-4 damager, with the ill behaviour. Oh goody. Elsewhere, no Europe means no previews, or crest-sessments. Sad. Still, fewer games is nice. Oh, and we bought some new lads, so you better believe we've assigned them anagrams. So, join us for more hope, despair, and downright dodgy predictions for the year ahead. Cheers very much. Twitter and Instagram: @tbbpodEmail: bruisedbananapod@gmail.comPlease take the time to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts, Google or wherever you get your pods. It means a great deal to the show and makes it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!

Looks like we made it. Look how far we've come, my Pépé. We mighta took the long way. We knew we'd get 8th someday. They said, "I bet they'll never make it", but just look at us Holding on. We're still together, still playing on. Right, enough of that. Rejoice! The 2020/21 season is over! And what better way to celebrate that fact than to immediately go back and scrutinise the whole damn thing, month by turgid month. After that, it's the annual Bruised Banana awards, before a final digital sack of the campaign brings the curtain down for another year. Massive thanks to all our listeners. You're still the ones.Twitter and Instagram: @tbbpodEmail: bruisedbananapod@gmail.comPlease take the time to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts, Google or wherever you get your pods. It means a great deal to the show and makes it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!

We discuss the impact that the sudden rise and fall of the Super League has had on us as fans, mulling over what lies next for both the club and ourselves as supporters. Then it's onwards to matters far more frivolous, with a good old-fashioned deep dive into our Europa League semi-final opponents, Villarreal. Here's hoping for a good ebening...Twitter and Instagram: @tbbpodEmail: bruisedbananapod@gmail.comPlease take the time to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts, Google or wherever you get your pods. It means a great deal to the show and makes it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!

We wanted to spend an hour talking about Maty Ryan's pre-assist. Unfortunately, we were duty bound to talk about everything else that came before it as well. We discuss the disappointing 1-1 draw with Fulham, our minds still firmly set on the wonderful slaughtering of Slavia Prague. A mega session of ‘bin or keep' rounds things out for another week (spoiler alert: we keep Maty Ryan).Twitter and Instagram: @tbbpodEmail: bruisedbananapod@gmail.comPlease take the time to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts, Google or wherever you get your pods. It means a great deal to the show and makes it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!

An insipid home defeat to Liverpool dominates the discourse this week, coming as it does after international break musings and a reflection on 20 years without David Rocastle. The Europa preview takes a backseat and the customary mailbag wraps things up for another episode. Episode 89. Feels somewhat fitting. RIP Rocky.Twitter and Instagram: @tbbpodEmail: bruisedbananapod@gmail.comPlease take the time to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts, Google or wherever you get your pods. It means a great deal to the show and makes it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!

You'd think after a manic 3-3 draw away to West Ham that we'd have nothing but laser-sharp focus for the incident-packed, riveting game itself. You'd be quite wrong. This week's tangents include captains from the 1910s and obscure Hampshire market town flags. Unlike Arsenal, we're nothing if not consistent.Twitter and Instagram: @tbbpodEmail: bruisedbananapod@gmail.comPlease take the time to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts, Google or wherever you get your pods. It means a great deal to the show and makes it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!

#087: Floating on a cloudGood old Arsenal, we're proud to say that name. While we sing this song, we'll win the game, and in doing so we'll banish all negative memories of ‘them' against us. We'll sleep soundly and peacefully. We'll walk tall. We won't have to grin and bear it, we'll just grin, randomly and often, knowing that – for now at least – all is well and good in the north London footballing landscape. Because it is. Have a great week. Twitter and Instagram: @tbbpodEmail: bruisedbananapod@gmail.comPlease take the time to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts, Google or wherever you get your pods. It means a great deal to the show and makes it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!

Exasperation FC does it again. We ‘assess' the inexplicable 1-1 draw with Burnley without trying to completely lose our minds. We last about 30 seconds. After the madness at Turf Moor, we head to the mailbag for more questions on the Burnley balls up, song lyrics, and Peter Walton's voice. It never rains but it pours.Twitter and Instagram: @tbbpodEmail: bruisedbananapod@gmail.comPlease take the time to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts, Google or wherever you get your pods. It means a great deal to the show and makes it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!

A 1-0 loss to Manchester City leaves us staring at 11 defeats for the season, and our 8th in a row against the runaway league leaders. We discuss the team selection, slow start, and whether the scoreline looks better on paper than in reality. We then give the 1-1 draw with Benfica the once over before ending with the customary mailbag and return of Tweet of the Week.Twitter and Instagram: @tbbpodEmail: bruisedbananapod@gmail.comPlease take the time to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts, Google or wherever you get your pods. It means a great deal to the show and makes it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!

A 4-2 win over Leeds gets the pulses racing and the nerves jangling. We discuss the ups and downs of the game, and herald the return of our hat-trick-scoring talisman. Then it's onwards to Benfica as we deep dive into the history of the Portuguese powerhouse ahead of our Europa League double header. The mailbag draws us to a close with some Valentine's Day love stories (rated PG).Twitter and Instagram: @tbbpodEmail: bruisedbananapod@gmail.comPlease take the time to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts, Google or wherever you get your pods. It means a great deal to the show and makes it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!

It's just that sweet Midlands misery, that makes me cry, cry, cry, cry. Successive defeats away at Wolves and Aston Villa leave us wishing we were lucky. Alas, VAR is all around us, and so the ill-feeling grows. We discuss the joy vacuum that is VAR, the jobsworth ref apologist that is Peter Walton, and – of course – the lacklustre, weathered footballing entity that is Arsenal FC. Join us.Twitter and Instagram: @tbbpodEmail: bruisedbananapod@gmail.comPlease take the time to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts, Google or wherever you get your pods. It means a great deal to the show and makes it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!

A stalemate at home to Man Utd keeps us ticking along in the league. We discuss the nervy 0-0, honing in on the much-improved-yet-still-lacking Nicolas Pépé. There's also time to hail our excellent midweek win at St Mary's and welcome loan signing Martin Ødegaard with anagrams and pronunciations galore, before Dan's digital sack brings us to a close.Twitter and Instagram: @tbbpodEmail: bruisedbananapod@gmail.comPlease take the time to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts, Google or wherever you get your pods. It means a great deal to the show and makes it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!

We're out of the cup but no matter because we've signed Sir Mathew of Ryan from the mighty Brighton & Hove Albion in the loan of the century except it really does matter because we love that bloody competition and it's ours and now we no longer get to participate in our own competition which quite frankly isn't on at all.Twitter and Instagram: @tbbpodEmail: bruisedbananapod@gmail.comPlease take the time to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts, Google or wherever you get your pods. It means a great deal to the show and makes it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!

Three wins from three, eight goals scored, one against. Wow. We discuss the recent unexpected upturn in fortunes and once again pay tribute to our diamond lights, Kieran and Bukayo. Oh, the weather outside is frightful, but those lads are so delightful. And since we've no place to go, let's score goals, let's score goals, let's score goals. Happy New Year!Twitter and Instagram: @tbbpodEmail: bruisedbananapod@gmail.comPlease take the time to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts, Google or wherever you get your pods. It means a great deal to the show and makes it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!

“Ohhh Granit Xhaka! You might've scored a worldy but you're still a c…” But you're not, Bukayo. Nor you, Emile. And definitely not you, Gabriel. You represent hope, and joy, and all things fresh, sparkly and great. Recent pain and misery is pushed firmly to one side as we fully embrace the win over Chelsea. The succulent 3 goals, points, and wunderkinds. Good old Arsenal. Now just stay good.Twitter and Instagram: @tbbpodEmail: bruisedbananapod@gmail.comPlease take the time to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts, Google or wherever you get your pods. It means a great deal to the show and makes it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!

We discuss yet another loss. Tom goes to the tip. Alex rants about Walcott. Dan reads the listener comments. Christmas is cancelled. Now it's time to cancel Mikel Arteta and his awful Arsenal team. We've been there and back again. The state that we are in. Twitter and Instagram: @tbbpodEmail: bruisedbananapod@gmail.comPlease take the time to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts, Google or wherever you get your pods. It means a great deal to the show and makes it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!

Four episodes ago we wrote a silly Des'Ree gag for this bit which culminated in ‘...this style of football really is unsustainable and cannot be allowed to continue any further'. Well, continue it has. After the car wreck that was the 1 nil home defeat to Burnley, we wonder if Arteta's reign may be coming to an end. Where did it all go so desperately, horribly wrong? Would even Roy Hodgson be a better bet at this stage, perhaps with Des'Ree as assistant gaffer? The answer is of course a resounding yes. Life, oh life, oh godforsaken life. Twitter and Instagram: @tbbpodEmail: bruisedbananapod@gmail.comPlease take the time to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts, Google or wherever you get your pods. It means a great deal to the show and makes it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!

Do you really want to hurt me? Do you really want to make me cry? The Evil Man has beaten the Culture Club. Again. We ponder over what this means for ‘Project Non-Negotiables' as we come to terms with yet another toothless league display. Oi Arsenal, go and brush your teeth. Except you don't have any. Sigh. Twitter and Instagram: @tbbpodEmail: bruisedbananapod@gmail.comPlease take the time to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts, Google or wherever you get your pods. It means a great deal to the show and makes it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!

Stop the football, we want to get off. Yet another lacklustre Premier League display leaves Dan and Tom questioning why we even bother, as Arsenal succumb to a 2-1 defeat at home to Wolves. We pay tribute to the passing of a genuine football legend, and wonder when exactly our sport will get wise to the dangers of head injuries. With Alex away for the week we, very briefly, touch on the win against Molde before seeking crumbs of comfort in your beautiful correspondence. Right now, it's all we've got.Twitter and Instagram: @tbbpodEmail: bruisedbananapod@gmail.comPlease take the time to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts, Google or wherever you get your pods. It means a great deal to the show and makes it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!

Remember goals? A host of opportunities? A string of chances to bulge the net? Seeing said net bulge, presumably after someone's rifled one home, or maybe finished with aplomb? Goals are nice. Maybe we'll do one again someday. So, yeah. Leeds. And then Molde. And then mailbag. Good episode, this. Long. Filled to the brim with words, like any self-respecting podcast should be. Enjoy. We'll score again soon. Promise. Twitter and Instagram: @tbbpodEmail: bruisedbananapod@gmail.comPlease take the time to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts, Google or wherever you get your pods. It means a great deal to the show and makes it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!

You gotta be good, you gotta be bold, you gotta be wiser. You gotta be hard, you gotta be tough, you gotta be stronger. You gotta be cool, you gotta be calm, you gotta generally just play better. All I know, all I know, this style of football really is unsustainable and cannot be allowed to continue any further. Twitter and Instagram: @tbbpodEmail: bruisedbananapod@gmail.comPlease take the time to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts, Google or wherever you get your pods. It means a great deal to the show and makes it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!

Sir Matt Busby, Sir Alex Ferguson, Sir Bryan Robson, Sir Eric Cantona, Sir Rio of Ferdinand, Ed Woodward, Harry Maguire, Odion Ighalo, the Glazers, Bebé – we have beaten them all, we have beaten them all! Ole Gunnar Solskjær can you hear me? Ole Gunnar Solskjær... your boys took a hell of a beating! [one for our Norwegian fans, there]Twitter and Instagram: @tbbpodEmail: bruisedbananapod@gmail.comPlease take the time to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts, Google or wherever you get your pods. It means a great deal to the show and makes it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!

The squibs get damper as we succumb to our second straight 1 nil loss in the league. We look at what went wrong against Leicester before considering what (just about) went right against Rapid, ending with a preview of Dundalk at home and a thorough dismantling of their club crest. Look away now, martlet fans. Twitter and Instagram: @tbbpodEmail: bruisedbananapod@gmail.comPlease take the time to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts, Google or wherever you get your pods. It means a great deal to the show and makes it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!

We return from the international break to more than familiar territory: a demoralising defeat away to a ‘big six' club. The dampest of damp squibs takes the spotlight this week, as we wonder whether the narrow margin of the loss to Man City represents progress in itself. With the Europa League back on the horizon, we check in our first opponents Rapid Vienna, before ending with questions about Aubameyang, Willian, and what we got up to during the interlull (ans: lots of telly).Twitter and Instagram: @tbbpodEmail: bruisedbananapod@gmail.comPlease take the time to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts, Google or wherever you get your pods. It means a great deal to the show and makes it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!

Chris Wilder's gilet is crap and nowhere near as good as Mikel Arteta's glorious and also extremely classy puffer jacket of dreams, and for that reason alone we should've been awarded the three points. Luckily for us, we managed to score 2 goals and Sheffield United only scored 1, rendering that particular argument completely and utterly superfluous. We review our win against the Blades, as well as transfer inactivity, the greatest penalty taker of all-time, and – once again – Mesut the invisible millstone. Enjoy. Twitter and Instagram: @tbbpodEmail: bruisedbananapod@gmail.comPlease take the time to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts, Google or wherever you get your pods. It means a great deal to the show and makes it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!

Well, at least that's Anfield out of the way for the season – oh wait, we're literally playing there again on Thursday – oh wait, that's only the league cup – oh wait, but they beat us in that on pens last year – oh wait, but we've already beaten them on pens this year – oh wait, and they gave us a massive big shield for doing so and oh wait, it's such a great shield and it's ours and oh wait, no one can take that away from us, do you understand, NO ONE. Good, thanks. Twitter and Instagram: @tbbpodEmail: bruisedbananapod@gmail.comPlease take the time to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts, Google or wherever you get your pods. It means a great deal to the show and makes it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!

Two wins from our first two games of the season with a trip to Anfield on the horizon – now, where have we seen that before? We cover the jammy three points against West Ham and wonder if it was simply a bad day at the office or cause for greater concern. We also hear about Tom's father-son tour of the Emirates before finishing up with questions aplenty in Dan's digital sack. Twitter and Instagram: @tbbpodEmail: bruisedbananapod@gmail.comPlease take the time to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts, Google or wherever you get your pods. It means a great deal to the show and makes it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!

We woke up today with this feeling. That better things are coming our way. And if the sunshine has a meaning. It's telling us not to let things get in our way. When the rainy days are dying, gotta keep on, keep on trying, all the bees and birds are flying (ahh ahh ahh). Never let go, gotta hold on and, non-stop 'til the break of dawn and, keep movin' don't stop rockin' (ahh ahh ahh)... Laca-zette, Ga-briel, Pierre-Emerick-Aubame-yang. I know it's too much, but it's okay. We'll keep on winning games anyway. Enjoy the pod

A new season. New hopes. New dreams. New expectations. How will the new boys fare? How will the old boys, er, fare? How many shiny trophies will we haul into our already heaving cabinet of trinkets and cups and shields? Will it be all of them? Yes, it most likely will be all of them. Join us as we run through the incomings and outgoings (so far), assign player anagrams, predict the line-up for Fulham away, and provide details of the Bruised Banana fantasy league.Twitter and Instagram: @tbbpodEmail: bruisedbananapod@gmail.comPlease take the time to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts, Google or wherever you get your pods. It means a great deal to the show and makes it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!

Yep, it's that season review episode. With the jubilation of Wembley punctured within days of the trophy fumble, we saw fit to pull out our finest of fine-tooth combs and examine the heck out of the 2019/20 campaign, month by freakin' month. There's also plenty of time to dispense our now customary annual awards in this most tempestuous of seasons. Take a deep breath and hold onto your hats. We're going in.Twitter and Instagram: @tbbpodEmail: bruisedbananapod@gmail.comPlease take the time to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts, Google or wherever you get your pods. It means a great deal to the show and makes it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!

Mik Arteta's magic, he wears a magic hat, and when he saw Mes-douzi, he said: “I'm not having that, sod off you pair of gits, I've got to guide Granit, direct David, administer Ainsley, enable Emi, and permit Pierre, and oh look, we've won the FA Cup, blimey I've only been here 5 minutes, how good is that, imagine what I'll be capable of with a bit of money and a bit more time. Just imagine. (He actually said all that, crazy right?)Twitter and Instagram: @tbbpodEmail: bruisedbananapod@gmail.comPlease take the time to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts, Google or wherever you get your pods. It means a great deal to the show and makes it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!

And breathe. A mere 350 days after it began, Arsenal's league season closes out with an unconvincing win over Watford and 8th place in the table. We run through the highlights and lowlights from our last two matches, and look ahead to the Wembley showpiece with Chelsea, which essentially boils down to hoping for the absolute bloody best on the day and anything but a repeat of Baku. And hope.Twitter and Instagram: @tbbpodEmail: bruisedbananapod@gmail.comPlease take the time to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts, Google or wherever you get your pods. It means a great deal to the show and makes it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!

#061: Humble and hungry‘How to rebound from a derby defeat', by Mikel Arteta. Step one: beat the champions. Step two: beat the cup holders without conceding a goal. Step three: chill. In this most unusual of campaigns, we once again find ourselves in familiar territory: the FA Cup Final, for the 21st time. We bask in the glory of our most impressive performance of the season, and give thanks to the gaffer. Cheers Mik! Twitter and Instagram: @tbbpodEmail: bruisedbananapod@gmail.comPlease take the time to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts, Google or wherever you get your pods. It means a great deal to the show and makes it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!

We discuss the hugely disappointing defeat to Spurs, distracting ourselves from the Sead and Shkodran horror show by picturing Martin Tyler as an old cow in a field. Dan's sack includes questions on Laca, Auba, and VAR. Come for the hopelessness, stay for the despair.Twitter and Instagram: @tbbpodEmail: bruisedbananapod@gmail.comPlease take the time to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts, Google or wherever you get your pods. It means a great deal to the show and makes it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!

A drizzly draw against Leicester is the focus of discussion this week, a dull affair in which nothing of any note took place. And that's just the game! We cover the controversial moments on the night before jumping back to Molineux and the fine win over Wolves. There's also time to look ahead to Sunday at Spurs in what promises to be an eerie NLD.Twitter and Instagram: @tbbpodEmail: bruisedbananapod@gmail.comPlease take the time to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts, Google or wherever you get your pods. It means a great deal to the show and makes it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!

Our first home game after the restart results in a romp over basement boys Norwich. We reflect on a win that takes us into 7th place and Aubameyang into the record books. There's also time to revel in Saka's new contract deal, our smash-and-grab cup win at Bramall Lane, and the underwhelming goalscoring exploits of our mind. It's better than it sounds.Twitter and Instagram: @tbbpodEmail: bruisedbananapod@gmail.comPlease take the time to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts, Google or wherever you get your pods. It means a great deal to the show and makes it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!

Our 3rd consecutive away game yields our 3rd away win of the season, 3 precious PL points, and – most vitally of all – 3,000 Bellerín-brand beeches and birches. We run through the sweltering Southampton game, getting rather hot and sweaty in the process. Tree-mendous.Twitter and Instagram: @tbbpodEmail: bruisedbananapod@gmail.comPlease take the time to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts, Google or wherever you get your pods. It means a great deal to the show and makes it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!

A football team is like a beautiful woman. When you do not tell her, she forgets she is beautiful. As Brighton complete a first ever league double over the Gunners, one thing becomes painfully clear: no one will be sliding into this team's DMs anytime soon. Except maybe Mari's, he's a looker.Twitter and Instagram: @tbbpodEmail: bruisedbananapod@gmail.comPlease take the time to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts, Google or wherever you get your pods. It means a great deal to the show and makes it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!

Football is back but not as we know it except it is though isn't it because Arsenal are back and every bit as calamitous as they were 100 days ago and oh god David Luiz and oh god we have to endure this garbage for 9 more games oh and then there's the cup and oh god Mesut Özil didn't make a 20 man squad and why couldn't it have just stayed away and left us in peace but no it could not do that. Football is back. And it's shite.Twitter and Instagram: @tbbpodEmail: bruisedbananapod@gmail.comPlease take the time to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts, Google or wherever you get your pods. It means a great deal to the show and makes it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!

In the last of our retrospective episodes before the 19/20 season restarts, we look at the life and times of one Nicolas Anelka at Arsenal. A bargain buy who became a mammoth sale, we look at the goals, games and grumps that defined Anelka's time at the club, and ponder over what might've been.Twitter and Instagram: @tbbpodEmail: bruisedbananapod@gmail.comPlease take the time to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts, Google or wherever you get your pods. It means a great deal to the show and makes it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!

We time travel back to November 1996 to review a classic Arsenal match of yesteryear: Arsène Wenger's first North London Derby. Driving rain, a crackling atmosphere, and ad hoardings for Kellogg's Strike, this was a derby for the ages, and one that helped set the tone for the future fortunes of each club. We cover all the key moments from the match and revel in a wonderful night under the Highbury floodlights.Use the code BANANA15 to get 15% off your purchase at cultkits.comMATCH HIGHLIGHTS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMCZgAtMkgcTwitter and Instagram: @tbbpodEmail: bruisedbananapod@gmail.comPlease take the time to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts, Google or wherever you get your pods. It means a great deal to the show and makes it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!

With the 2019/20 season on hold, we decided to go back 30 years to 1989/90, a time where shorts were short, hair was long (at least at the back), and Arsenal were about to defend the title. We cover everything from the magnificent Jim Rosenthal-narrated official VHS highlights package, from best goal to best haircut. So sit back, relax and immerse yourself in the wonderful world of 1989/90, the spam in the title-winning sandwich. ARSENAL 1989/90 VHS SEASON HIGHLIGHTS: https://youtu.be/mxwE1rBc4lITwitter and Instagram: @tbbpodEmail: bruisedbananapod@gmail.com