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Handbrake Off: The Athletic FC's Arsenal show

The Athletic

Soccer, Football, Sports

4.6 • 650 Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Amy Lawrence, James Mcnicholas and Ian Stone are looking ahead to (but not looking forward to) Arsenal’s crucial Europa League tie. The team reminisce about tense European cup ties of old, ponder the Auba issue, assess Arteta’s man management and shudder at what Arsenal’s plan C, D or E options might be this summer. Eduardo gets his turn out of the Random Arse Generator

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0:00.0	The Athletic
0:02.0	The only way to score is of course to play with a handbreak-off.
0:18.6	Hello, I'm Ian Stone and this is Handbreak-, the Arsenal podcast brought to you by The Athletic.
0:24.5	No messing about today.
0:25.9	We're going to get right into it with the main Arsenal writers from The Athletic, Amy Lawrence and James McNicholus.
0:31.3	Good afternoon.
0:32.4	Hi, Ian.
0:32.8	Hello, hello.
0:33.6	Hello, hello.
0:34.8	This is, I think you'd agree, a huge week for the Arsenal Thursday could make or break our season.
0:41.9	And after that ridiculous late Equaliser last week, we have to go to Prague and either win or get a high scoring draw.
0:47.8	It's going to be tense. So before we start, we thought we'd ask the panel about tense European second legs. Amy, give us a tense
0:57.6	European second leg. You know what? I realised, because I think it was my fault that we proposed
1:02.9	this opening question. And then thinking about it, virtually every European second leg
1:08.5	comes with a fair degree of ridiculous stress.
1:12.2	I think it's only when there was your four-neiled down to AC Milan for the first leg,
1:16.6	but even then still managed to make that kind of close enough.
1:19.8	But I'm going to pick two that stick out particularly for inducing a sort of level of anxiety that is on the real
1:29.9	extreme side, one of which was a cup in 1995 when Arsenal played Oggs Air in the quarterfinals,
1:38.2	yeah. And a memorable trip, I went with some friends, we got lost. It was one of the, it was a, it was a standoff between me and my friend who, I can't remember which one was driving, which one was like co-pilot about whether or not we stop and ask a local for directions. And I was in favour of stopping and asking. And they were in favour of just continuing and hoping to stumble upon bloody stadium.
2:03.6	So we were tense before we even started.
2:06.1	Arsenal had drawn 1-1, the home lake at Highbury.
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