Carry on Handbrake
Handbrake Off: The Athletic FC's Arsenal show
The Athletic
4.6 • 731 Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Amy Lawrence and Art de Roché join Ian Stone to look ahead to Chelsea at Emirates Stadium on Sunday.
The panel discuss how they’re feeling as fans as crunch time approaches, how the team navigate the next three league games before the international break, building on the momentum from the Spurs win, embracing the enjoyment of their offensive play, striking the right attacking balance in the upcoming games, Gyokeres looking happier and Arteta’s task of maintaining belief and confidence while the stakes are so high.
Plus, we hear from Molly from San Francisco in 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. |
| 0:15.9 | This is Handbreak-Off, the Arsenal podcast, brought to you by The Athletic. |
| 0:19.4 | Today we're going to be looking ahead |
| 0:20.8 | to Arsenal's game at home to Chelsea at the weekend as well as other bits and pieces. |
| 0:26.2 | I'm joined by Amy Lawrence and Art de Roche. Good morning. Morning. Good morning. |
| 0:29.9 | Now I know you've both seen the video of Alex Hwobey on the Fulham Team Bus and bus doesn't really convey that's not like a |
| 0:41.0 | bus that I've ever been on that it's really I mean it's a coach but it's not like a coach |
| 0:45.2 | I've ever been on. Oh that's the nicest coach I've ever seen I mean it just looked |
| 0:49.2 | absolutely gorgeous in there didn't it? Yeah one of those double-deckers it looked like |
| 0:53.2 | was it do you think it might have been? |
| 0:55.4 | Well, yeah, because initially at the start of the video, they were looking for Smith Road and they were like, he's downstairs, he's downstairs. So, yeah, it looked like one of those really fancy ones. And then, of course, they got the plane. So. They got the plane? what have they got a plane as well? |
| 1:09.0 | Yeah, they got a plane as well. |
| 1:10.2 | So, yeah, decent, decent travel for those. |
| 1:13.7 | Good luck to him. |
| 1:14.8 | Good. They got the plane? What have they got a plane as well? Yeah, they got a plane as well. So, yeah, decent, decent travel for those. Good luck to them. Good luck to them. You know what? They're young men doing very, very well, and they deserve it. And particularly, the ex-Arsnal ones, who were taking the best out of Ron Cessignon when they're watching Arsenal play Spurs. |
| 1:32.0 | And Emil Smith Row, God love him, was doing the Yocchorus celebration. |
| 1:34.1 | And they were talking about Eza and how good he is. |
| 1:36.4 | Ryan Sessonion did not appreciate any of it. |
| 1:40.6 | Have you properly celebrated someone who used to play for us going for another team? |
| 1:44.2 | Also, if you can have one of our ex-players back who's still playing, who would you have? I guess this won't be surprising to many people listening, but I think |
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