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Handbrake Off: The Athletic FC's Arsenal show

The Athletic

Soccer, Football, Sports

4.6 • 650 Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

The Athletic's Amy Lawrence and James McNicholas join Ian Stone discuss the pruning of Arsenal's squad, the value of patience, and an excellent 44 minutes against Wolverhampton Wanderers.

A diminutive Russian is thrown into the Random Arse Generator, and the panel ask which Arsenal player did you judge too soon?

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0:00.0	The Athletic.
0:10.0	The only way to score is, of course, to play with a handbreak-off.
0:20.0	Hello, I'm Ian Stone.
0:21.5	This is Handbreak Off, the Arsenal podcast brought to you by The Athletic.
0:25.4	I'm joined, as always, by the rock solid, nothing gets past then pairing of Amy Lawrence and James McNicholas.
0:32.4	Hello, guys.
0:33.3	Hello.
0:34.1	Hi, Ian.
0:34.7	Hi.
0:34.8	That's very kind.
0:36.0	Hello.
0:36.3	Yeah, I know.
0:37.4	Now we have to work out which one's Rob Holding and which one's
0:39.7	David Louise today. No, we don't have to go their way. We don't. Now, I should say there are only
0:46.7	three of us on the team sheet this evening, this afternoon, but let's face it, it's only six
0:51.3	less than Arsenal ended with last night.
0:58.0	Yes, we're recording this the morning after the crazy events at Molineux,
1:02.1	where we went from cruising to bruising in about 15 seconds.
1:04.3	We'll talk about some of the stranger aspects of the game.
1:09.1	But before we do, we had a lot of discussions this week about where the club is headed and our feelings about how it's going
1:11.0	and they all came down to having to be patient. So we thought we'd loosely base this week's
1:15.7	pod around the subjects of patience. Now before we get into the main discussion, we have seen
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