Christmas Special

Handbrake Off: The Athletic FC's Arsenal show

The Athletic

Soccer, Football, Sports

4.6 • 650 Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Arsenal legend Lee Dixon joins the Athletic's Arsenal writers Amy Lawrence, James McNicholas and comedian Ian Stone for a festive edition of Handbrake Off

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0:00.0	The only way to score is of course to play with a handbreak-off.
0:16.8	Hello, I'm Ian Stone and welcome to the new episode of Hand-break-off.
0:20.8	Our new weekly Arsenal podcast brought to you by The Athletic.
0:25.0	As always, I'm in the studio with two of the Athletics writers covering all things Arsenal every week, Amy Lawrence and also James McNicholas, and Lee Dixon is down the line full of Christmas cheer.
0:36.6	Hello, Lee.
0:38.0	Ho, ho, ho. Beautiful. See, that's exactly line full of Christmas cheer. Hello, Lee. Ho, ho, ho.
0:39.2	Beautiful. See, that's exactly the sort of Christmas cheer we're looking for.
0:42.7	Hello, James and Amy.
0:43.9	Hello, Merry Christmas.
0:44.8	Hello, Merry Christmas.
0:46.2	James St. Nicholas, we should call you today, by the way.
0:48.8	Thank you very much.
0:49.1	Thank you very much.
0:49.1	And now, by way of admission, we are actually recording this a fair time before Christmas.
0:55.1	As I look out the window, it's a beautiful summer's day.
0:57.2	We're all going off to a barbecue straight after we finish this.
0:59.9	We've actually recorded all the Christmas specials until 2035, at which point, no doubt,
1:04.8	Arsson, will be on their 35th manager since Arsson Venga.
1:08.8	Now, on Christmas day itself, no doubt Lee is cycling off his Christmas dinner.
1:12.5	Amy, as she has young kids, is no doubt playing her fourth board game of the day
1:16.1	and wondering whether two in the afternoon is too early to open her second bottle of wine.
1:19.9	And James is at a Buddhist retreat trying to locate his chakra.
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