Arsenal get ‘Arsenaled' at Brentford
Handbrake Off: The Athletic FC's Arsenal show
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🗓️ 13 February 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Art de Roché and Adrian Clarke join Ian Stone to discuss Arsenal’s 1-1 draw away to Brentford on Thursday night.
The panel reflect on whether the result was a point gained or two points lost, the poor first half display, whether Arsenal are risk-averse, Raya’s concentration after another big save to redeem his mistake, Madueke’s towering header, Saka not looking fit when he came on, the need to rest Timber, the defensive performance overall and wanting to see more from Eze after his substitution at half-time.
Plus, they look ahead to the match against Wigan in the FA Cup on Sunday at the Emirates and we hear from Steve in Cork, Ireland for this week’s instalment of ‘Up Your Arsenal’.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FC. |
| 0:07.1 | The only way to score is, of course, to play with a handbreak-off. |
| 0:14.7 | Hello, I'm Ian Stone. This is Handbreak-off, the Arsenal podcast, brought to you by The Athletic. |
| 0:19.5 | We're talking about Arsenal's 1-1 draw away to Brentford last night and looking ahead to Wigan in the FA Cup on Sunday afternoon. |
| 0:27.7 | To do that, I'm joined by Adrian Clark and Art de Roche. Good morning. Good morning. Hello. |
| 0:32.0 | Morning, guys. Nice to see you. I mean, I think we can agree that last night was a difficult |
| 0:37.1 | and stressful watch. And I think we can agree that last night was a difficult and stressful watch. |
| 0:38.6 | And I think we all felt maybe a tad deflated afterwards. I don't know. Is there any fatigue kicking in? I mean, we're on the fun boat, right? We've got on the fun boat, everybody. Mikhail asked us out. But it's not a lot of fun, I would say. It certainly wasn't last night. No, no. I think it all just depends what's |
| 0:54.7 | happening on the pitch. I mean, when you ask about fatigue, I think a bit of it set in for me |
| 1:00.3 | during December, those games against, again, Brentford and Wolves. And especially kind of like |
| 1:06.9 | what we were talking about after the Chelsea game, like especially when you're working a game |
| 1:11.6 | and what you're doing depends on what happens on the pitch and you're waiting for something |
| 1:17.0 | to happen and nothing is really happening. It becomes a bit of a drag. I'm hoping that the fun |
| 1:22.8 | can return with the FA Cup and then some momentum can build from there. But yeah, last night was another stressful one, really. |
| 1:31.8 | Yeah, yeah, choppy waters, Adrian. |
| 1:34.4 | I think we've hit some slightly choppy waters, have we? |
| 1:36.9 | Nothing too bad, a few little swells. |
| 1:39.4 | But, you know, there's a feeling among us Arsenal fans to keep the funboat analogy going |
| 1:43.9 | that we could be engulfed by a gigantic cheating tidal wave, right? |
| 1:49.3 | To try and mix the analogies. |
| 1:51.4 | What I would say is that isn't it good to have feelings? |
| 1:55.8 | Because everything matters. |
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