Bukayo Saka: The bringer of joy
Handbrake Off: The Athletic FC's Arsenal show
The Athletic
4.6 • 734 Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Art de Roché and Amy Lawrence join Ian Stone to discuss Arsenal’s 3-0 win at home to Fulham on Saturday.
The panel reflect on the fun starting line-up that led to a fun afternoon, the sense that momentum is developing, Fulham being the perfect opponent in the middle of a Champions’s League semi-final, Saka’s joyful display lifting his teammates, Gyokeres’s best performance so far as he was surrounded by more technical players, Lewis-Skelly impressing in midfield after a tough season and paying tribute to Per Mertesacker as he leaves his role as academy manager.
Plus, they discuss which trophy they want more, the Premier League or the Champions League, and look ahead to the the semi-final second leg of the Champions League against Atletico Madrid at Emirates stadium on Tuesday.
If you like the panel’s song choices, check out the ‘Now that’s what I call Handbrake’ playlist on both Spotify and Apple Music and listen to them all there:
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/playlist/now-thats-what-i-call-handbrake/pl.u-d2b00jZuDxWk6P
Producer: Robby Williams
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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 handbrake off |
| 0:11.9 | Hello I'm Ian Stone |
| 0:15.8 | This is Handbrake off the Arsenal podcast |
| 0:18.0 | Brought to you by The Athletic |
| 0:19.6 | We're going to be talking about Arsenal 3-0 win. |
| 0:22.4 | I'm to Fullham on Saturday and look ahead to the small matter of the second leg of the |
| 0:27.5 | Champions League semi-final against Athletico Madrid. |
| 0:31.2 | On Tuesday night, I'm joined by Art de Russia and Amy Lawrence. |
| 0:34.1 | Good afternoon, if we were calling this Sunday night, bye. |
| 0:36.5 | Good evening, actually. |
| 0:54.6 | Hi, hi, yeah. Good evening. Hi. Nice to see you guys. Amy put me on to this, by the way. There's a thing that's happening. Red Action Gooners. Basically, it's a greet the team bus event, essentially. If you want to come and help us welcome the team into our stadium ahead of another huge fixture. It's Hornsey Road, Benwell Road, bare roundabout area in front of the armoury. |
| 1:01.3 | 545 to about 6.30. That's when I'll be coming in. Although I'm assuming if there's thousands |
| 1:05.7 | of people turn up, might take a bit longer to get in. We are asking as many fans as possible |
| 1:10.3 | to show up just because |
| 1:11.8 | it's a special night, right? And I think it's great. I think you're right to make me point it out, |
| 1:17.8 | Amy, not make me, just to suggest that I do and I did. But you know, you're absolutely right |
| 1:22.5 | because this is such a, such a huge game. So assuming you're going, right, and I'm not saying |
| 1:27.4 | you are, but if you were, |
| 1:28.6 | what would you do to show your sort of support? |
| 1:32.3 | You know, you got channeled that little kid who was hugging his dad the other day |
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