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Handbrake Off: The Athletic FC's Arsenal show

Arsenal enjoy Europa exploits & Mik Arteta's Gabis

Handbrake Off: The Athletic FC's Arsenal show

The Athletic

Soccer, Football, Sports

4.6650 Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Ian Stone is joined by the returning James McNicholas for his first Handbrake Off outing of the new season to talk Europa League, Arsenal's Gabis as well as preview Sunday's trip to Elland Road.

Fresh from the Gunners' 1-0 win away to Bodø/Glimt in the Europa League Sambi Lokonga's performance is analysed with a number of squad players given an opportunity in Norway.

Given the impact of Arsenal's Brazilian Gabriel trio, there's also analysis on the impact of the trio before looking ahead to the return to Premier League action against Leeds United.

Produced by Guy Clarke


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0:00.0

The Athletic.

0:03.0

The only way to score is, of course, to play with a handbreak-off.

0:14.0

Hello, I'm Ian Stone, and this is Handbreak-off, the Arsenal podcast, brought to you by The Athletic.

0:24.5

We'll be reacting to the 1-0 Europa League, a way win over Berta glimped, 200 miles inside the Arctic Circle.

0:31.6

We'll also talk about our trio of Gabby's and their effect on the squad, and we'll a look forward to who leads away on Sunday.

0:37.7

Only one guest this week.

0:39.4

But what a guest.

0:40.4

What a guest.

0:41.1

A man who's been away

0:42.5

acting his little socks off

0:44.0

in various historical wigs.

0:45.9

I've seen the pictures.

0:47.6

It's a warm handbrake.

0:49.2

Welcome back to James McNicholas.

0:51.2

Morning, James.

0:52.8

Morning, Ian.

0:53.9

Thanks for having me on. Nice to be back.

0:55.4

Yeah, nice to see you as well. Have we done a podcast since the start of the season together,

1:02.5

by the way? I'm not sure. We haven't talked about much. Not sure we have. So it's probably a bad

1:06.7

omen me being back. It's been going quite well without me. You know what? We'll see what happens on Sunday, won't we? And at that point,

1:14.3

so this may well be James's debut and farewell appearance. Yeah, my final appearance on handbrake off.

1:21.2

Enjoy it.

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