Dara Ó Briain: 8 equals 2, sweeter victories, and home at the Emirates

Handbrake Off: The Athletic FC's Arsenal show

The Athletic

Soccer, Football, Sports

4.6 • 650 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Comedian Dara Ó Briain joins Amy Lawrence and Ian Stone to discuss all things Arsenal.

Enjoy a trip down memory lane to when the panel first fell in love with the club, to reflections on this season, to how Granit Xhaka will be remembered, and finally to how the Emirates has been transformed this season.

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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.
0:18.2	Hello, I'm Ian Stone. This is Handbreak-off, the Arsenal podcast, brought to you by The Athletic.
0:23.6	I hope you're all feeling a bit more balanced after the brutal weekend we had.
0:28.6	Perhaps city's demolition of Real Madrid last night might have offered a little bit more perspective on how far we've come this season.
0:36.0	We'll talk about the season and progress and we'll say goodbye to one of the more divisive figures at the club.
0:42.4	We're joined by Amy Lawrence and we have a very special guest, very talented comedian and of course a man of
0:47.7	impeccable taste as he's a big Arsenal fan.
0:50.1	Dara O'Brien, hello.
0:51.9	Hello, how are we all?
0:53.1	Hey, Dara. Welcome aboard. Yeah, great. Thanks, Dara O'Brien, hello. Hello, how are we all? Hey, Dara. Welcome aboard.
0:54.7	Yeah, great. Thanks, Dara.
0:56.1	It's great to be the short straw guy who got this one.
0:59.1	Couldn't have come on last week.
1:01.6	No.
1:02.1	That's true.
1:03.0	You could have picked any week to come on.
1:05.6	We could have got you on after Bournemouth, after May or any week.
1:09.1	And here we are, Brighton.
1:10.5	How are you feeling?
1:11.7	Yeah, not the best like that was.
1:14.3	Because I had such hopes.
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