A dark place

Handbrake Off: The Athletic FC's Arsenal show

The Athletic

Soccer, Football, Sports

4.6 • 650 Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Amy Lawrence and James McNicholas join Ian Stone to discuss the latest calamitous result from the weekend as Arsenal were thrashed 5-0 by Manchester City. And on the 10 year anniversary of the 8-2, just to rub salt into the wound even further.

But all hope is not yet lost, there's still one member of the team who believes that a top six finish is possible, that there's reason for hope come the NLD, but one thing we can all agree on is the need for some gallows humour at this time.

RUNNING ORDER

PART 1 - 8-2 choose you (01.30)

PART 2 - Man City 5-0 Arsenal (05.00)

PART 3a - Transfers (35.00)

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0:00.0	The Athletic.
0:09.5	The only way to score is, of course, to play with a handbreak-off.
0:18.5	Hello, I'm Ian Stone. This is Handbreak-off, the Arsenal podcast, brought to you by The Athletic, joined by James McNicholas and Amy Lawrence.
0:28.5	Good morning, guys.
0:29.6	Morning.
0:30.1	Hi.
0:30.8	Morning, yeah.
0:31.9	All right, I mean, listen, listener.
0:34.1	Morning with you, that was.
0:35.8	Yeah, I know, I know.
0:39.8	It is a good morning, right? We're still here and, you know, the sun still shines, water tastes sweet or whatever you say, but
0:45.4	we're going to talk about. I can't see any bloody sunshine. I'm just going to wait. Yeah,
0:50.8	cloudy. You know, glass half full. Well, done, Stoney.
0:55.9	Well, you have to be at this point.
0:58.1	We are, by the way, listen.
0:59.3	We'll try and keep it light.
1:00.8	But the truth is, we're in a bit of a dark place.
1:03.9	Well, we will.
1:04.4	Try to keep it light.
1:05.3	We will, but we're in a bit of a dark place. We know we are. We know how bad the game was on Saturday.
1:11.9	28th of August is not a day that will go down in the annals of Arsenal history, except in a dark way.
1:18.1	The last time, 10 years ago, 28th of August, was the date of the 8-2.
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