A stroll on the south coast as Havertz off the mark
Handbrake Off: The Athletic FC's Arsenal show
The Athletic
4.6 • 734 Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Amy Lawrence and Adrian Clarke join Ian Stone, to talk about Arsenal's thrashing of Bournemouth at the Vitality. It was a perfect away day that included Havertz scoring his first goal for the club.
Plus, a discussion around the latest VAR controversy, opening day disappointment for Arsenal in the WSL, and looking ahead to Lens.
Produced by Jay Beale.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.7 | No problem. |
| 0:07.4 | Kai Havats announced himself as an Arsenal player. |
| 0:11.4 | The only way to score is, of course, to play with a handbreak-off. |
| 0:18.8 | Hello, I'm Ian Stone. This is Hand-B, the Arsenal podcast brought to you by The Athletic. |
| 0:23.7 | A mixed weekend. I think for Arsenal Football Club on Saturday afternoon, the men's team |
| 0:27.3 | cruised to victory on the South Coast, putting four past Bournemouth at the vitality. |
| 0:32.2 | Kai Haver scored. And then yesterday, Arsenal women lost their opening game of the season to Liverpool in front of over 50,000 at the Emirates. |
| 0:40.3 | We'll chat about all that as well as taking a quick look forward to Lange's away in the Champions League. |
| 0:46.2 | Amy Lawrence and Adrian Clar are with me, morning. |
| 0:48.6 | Hello. |
| 0:49.7 | Hello. |
| 0:50.6 | Now, before we get going with the Arsenal, there was, I think it's safe to say, a gigantic VAL howler at the weekend, as Liverpool had a perfectly good goal disallowed for offside against them lot, because of a complete breakdown in communication after the VAR missed some rather important information, which was that the goal hadn't, in fact, been given. So, I thought I'd ask, have you ever messed up because you missed some important information |
| 1:15.5 | or something completely obvious? |
| 1:18.3 | Amy, you're cringing here. |
| 1:20.2 | Well, I've got so many to choose from. |
| 1:23.4 | Well, choose one. |
| 1:24.8 | Yes, no, I've got one very obvious one that relates to the situation of the weekend. |
| 1:31.1 | Do you listen, you'll have to forgive me a bit of context, but if you come back 25 years ago to 1998, |
| 1:37.4 | the scenario is this, Arsenal have just won the double. |
| 1:40.9 | As a young reporter, it has been an amazing few weeks to follow that, both professionally |
| 1:46.2 | and as a fan. And let's just say, I might have indulged in a bit of excessive celebration. |
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