Boring, boring Arsenal
Handbrake Off: The Athletic FC's Arsenal show
The Athletic
4.6 • 731 Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Amy Lawrence and James McNicholas join Ian Stone to discuss Arsenal’s 1-0 win away to Brighton on Wednesday.
The panel reflect on the outside noise surrounding Arsenal, having perspective in relation to the difficult seasons of the past, Gabriel’s immense performance, the midfield duo desperately in need of rest, missing Merino and Odegaard, Saka scoring on his 300th appearance the club, Hincapie getting better with each game, not seeking external validation and the away fans celebrating after news of Man City’s draw came through.
Plus, they look ahead to the match away to Mansfield in the FA Cup on Saturday, respond to some listener messages and we hear from Daniel in Kent in this week’s instalment of Up Your Arsenal.
If you like the panel’s song choices, check out the ‘Now that’s what I call Handbrake’ playlist on Spotify and listen to them all here:
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FC |
| 0:03.3 | The only way to score is of course to play |
| 0:10.0 | with a handbreak-off. |
| 0:14.5 | Hello I'm Ian Stone, this is Handbrake-Off. |
| 0:17.2 | The Arsenal podcast brought to you by The Athletic. |
| 0:21.2 | Today, we'll be talking about Arsenal's. F-off. One-0 win. of the Arsenal podcast brought to you by the Athletic today. |
| 0:23.0 | We'll be talking about Arsenal's. |
| 0:23.9 | Fuck off. |
| 0:25.0 | One-nil win. |
| 0:26.5 | Away to Brighton last night. |
| 0:28.8 | Maybe have a chat about Mansfield as well. |
| 0:32.1 | I'm joined by Amy Lawrence and James McNicholas. |
| 0:33.2 | Good morning. |
| 0:34.2 | Good morning, Matt. |
| 0:34.6 | Hello. |
| 0:37.0 | Morning, and what a good morning it is. |
| 0:42.9 | Michael Artecettas press conference yesterday when he was told about Herzl's comments. |
| 0:45.9 | And he went, what a surprise. |
| 0:50.3 | The Pauls, James, the Pauls. |
| 0:52.7 | It was just, it was beautiful, wasn't it? |
| 0:54.7 | But honestly, he was moaning about, I don't know what he was moaning about. I don't care what he's moan about, but it was beautiful, wasn't it? But honestly, he was moaning about. |
| 0:56.5 | I don't know what he was moaning about. |
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