{"id":3166,"date":"2026-05-14T08:31:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T08:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/?p=3166"},"modified":"2026-05-14T08:31:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T08:31:53","slug":"the-dispatch-beating-west-ham-and-raising-the-bar-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/?p=3166","title":{"rendered":"The Dispatch: Beating West Ham and Raising the Bar | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Josh is joined this week by Arsenal Social Media Editor Gianluca Freschi, who steps in for Frimmy and there\u2019s plenty to discuss after another huge week in Arsenal\u2019s season.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The pair relive the nerve-shredding 1-0 win over West Ham at London Stadium, with Gian giving his perspective from inside the away end as Leandro Trossard\u2019s late winner sent Arsenal supporters into chaos. From David Raya\u2019s huge saves to the tension surrounding West Ham\u2019s disallowed equaliser, the hosts reflect on an emotionally draining afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Josh also shares insight from inside the dressing room after full-time and discusses one of his favourite pieces of Arsenal social content \u2014 the pitchside celebration footage after Trossard\u2019s goal that put supporters right in the middle of the chaos. There\u2019s also reaction from the match-winner himself, as Trossard reflects on the decisive goal and Arsenal\u2019s mindset heading into the final weeks of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, there\u2019s a preview of episode two of Declan Rice\u2019s Raising the Bar series, featuring a trip to McLaren HQ with Formula One star Lando Norris.<\/p>\n<p>Another huge week. Another huge episode. Make sure you\u2019re subscribed wherever you get your podcasts, and head to YouTube, Arsenal.com or The Arsenal app to watch the full show.<\/p>\n<article data-entity-type=\"block_content\" data-entity-uuid=\"f7a44168-e3bb-4d66-a63c-9b7442c0baea\" data-embed-button=\"javascript_embed\" data-entity-embed-display=\"view_mode:block_content.full\" data-langcode=\"en\" data-entity-embed-display-settings=\"()\" class=\"embedded-entity u-spacing-down--xxl\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/playlist.megaphone.fm?e=COMG3896934235\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Arsenal Football Club Limited. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josh is joined this week by Arsenal Social Media Editor Gianluca Freschi, who steps in for Frimmy and there\u2019s plenty to discuss after another huge week in Arsenal\u2019s season. The &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}