Arsenal hoover up all the football joy with Leeds win, coping strategies and The Ben White Philosophy

Handbrake Off: The Athletic FC's Arsenal show

The Athletic

Soccer, Football, Sports

4.6 • 650 Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Following on from another big win at the weekend, this time over Leeds, and the chaos ensuing at other clubs, we wonder whether we've actually got all the football joy that's available. Here with their optimism, trepidation and level headed analysis it's Ian Stone, Amy Lawrence, and Adrian Clarke.

This week we discuss handing down the Arsenal fandom across the generations, the potential names for Arsenal babies, and whether we're all enjoying this season enough.

There's some actual football too as we try to assess why it is that Arsenal are so good after half time, the impact of Gabriel Jesus and the gift of Granit.

Plus we talk coping strategies and the huge victory by Arsenal Women on Sunday

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0:00.0	The Athletic.
0:02.7	The only way to score is, of course, to play with a handbreak-off.
0:17.3	Hello, I'm Ian Stone.
0:18.7	This is Handbreak-off, the Arsenal podcast brought to you by The Athletic.
0:22.9	We'll be talking the win over leads.
0:25.0	Art will be sending us a voice note about the women's splendid combat victory over Man City.
0:29.5	And we'll get into coping mechanisms to the business end of the season when you're going after one of the big prizes.
0:35.7	I'm joined by Amy Lawrence and Adrian Clark. Good
0:38.8	morning. Hiya. Good morning. Hello. Now before we start, on the back of Mikhail Artetta, saying that he had very wild dreams.
0:47.0	We were wondering what I guess wilder's dreams might be, but I hadn't realized they had to be football related.
0:52.8	So we're not going there, okay?
0:55.9	Let's also be fair.
0:57.4	We all know what our world as football dreams are at the moment.
1:00.3	Can I just tell you very quickly,
1:02.9	for years after I left Arsenal,
1:05.2	I did have very vivid dreams that I made one more appearance.
1:12.7	And it was freaky.
1:18.7	Like, it was so real in terms of, like, the players and being in the dressing room.
1:20.7	And it was one of those.
1:25.0	I used to wake up and it used to be the same one over and over.
1:28.0	And I used to, it was, to, no, I don't know.
1:29.7	It was more about the build-up to the game,
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