Brentford preview and how should all of this feel?

Handbrake Off: The Athletic FC's Arsenal show

The Athletic

Soccer, Football, Sports

4.6 • 650 Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Ian Stone is joined by Amy Lawrence and Art de Roché to assess how we’re all feeling, and how we should feel, as the expectations ramp up after each game of this unexpected title challenge.

And speaking of emotions, there are warm words for Mikel Arteta’s public support of the players following the Everton defeat.

The panel discuss a tricky looking fixture against a Brentford side who have a great record against the “top six” sides this season.

Plus there's discussion about Reiss Nelson giving back to his local community, what Folarin Balogun’s future holds once his incredible time at Reims is done, and Ian delivers potentially the cleverest joke he’s ever done on the pod…

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0:00.0	The Athletic.
0:09.7	The only way to score is, of course, to play with a handbreak-off.
0:15.3	Hello, I'm Ian Stone.
0:16.7	This is Handbrake-Off, the Arsenal podcast, brought to you by The Athletic.
0:20.8	We're going to be chatting about some of the big Arsenal topics of the week,
0:23.9	as well as looking forward to the weekend's game at home to Brentford.
0:27.0	To do that, we're joined by Art de Roche and Amy Lawrence.
0:30.5	Morning.
0:31.5	Good morning.
0:32.7	Morning, nice to see you guys.
0:34.3	Now, before we get going, there was a huge story that broke this week about the
0:38.8	alleged financial impropriety of Manchester City, 108 breaches of financial fair play rules
0:45.7	over a nine-year period, which starts in 2009 and goes on until 2018, a period in which they
0:52.0	won three league titles, by the way, some with players bought
0:55.1	from us.
0:56.4	What we thought we'd ask, if the charges turn out to be true and Manchester City get
1:00.9	relegated to the National League or something, who should we buy it from them?
1:08.0	I'm going to come to you first because I know that Amy's got the same player.
1:12.9	I'm only allowed one each.
1:14.3	Well, I don't know if this is like a cheat now.
1:16.9	No, not at all.
1:17.8	Not at all.
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