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Arsenal's defensive appetite gets Shearer's approval on The Rest Is Football

Nine uploads also bring a Reddit Q&A covering management, penalty mind games and chicken nuggets.

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Is Arsenal's Defence The BEST We've Seen? 👀

Alan Shearer knows what makes a striker's afternoon difficult, and Arsenal's defenders have his attention. "They actually enjoy defending," he says in The Rest Is Football's most watched new upload, praising the quality and physicality of a unit whose substitutes earn his approval too.

"Is Arsenal's Defence The BEST We've Seen? 👀" has reached roughly 188,000 views. The conversation treats defending as an art, with organisation and shared enthusiasm as important as individual ability. Beneath it, viewers discuss the depth beyond the players pictured in the graphic, particularly Saliba and Hincapié, while Konsa's contribution gets its own appreciation.

Arsenal supplied several angles across the nine-upload week. "Would You Rather Konsa Or Saliba? 👀" narrowed the discussion to a selection question, while the longer Carabao Cup episode asked whether attacking reinforcements were needed. Gary Lineker, Shearer and Micah Richards also considered Foden and Cherki's roles at Manchester City and Liverpool's Rio Ngumoha.

Shearer then took questions from Reddit in "Shearer On Getting Sacked, The Tyne-Wear Derby & Could Kane Return?" Management and penalty mind games shared the agenda with wigs and chicken nuggets. That episode is among the channel's busiest videos right now, though the fresh "Shearer Couldn't Be Happier For Kane's New Contract 🤣" is attracting views fastest.

The subscriber count held steady, and daily viewing is below its usual level. Across the whole week, however, The Rest Is Football collected about 1.7 million views, the largest weekly total among these nearby football channels, with Let's Talk FPL and The Athletic FC also drawing substantial audiences.

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What viewers say

Crazy thing is Saliba & Hincapié not even shown in this graphic
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Always rated Konsa so highly, I'm glad he's getting his flowers now
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This is the Great Wall of Arsenal.
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