Europa League seen off & Arsenal ready for battle at the Bridge

Handbrake Off: The Athletic FC's Arsenal show

The Athletic

Soccer, Football, Sports

4.6 • 650 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Ian Stone is joined by The Athletic's James McNicholas and Adrian Clarke ahead of Arsenal's Premier League visit to Chelsea.

Fresh from topping the group in the Europa League, courtesy of a 1-0 win over FC Zurich, the panel also analyse Kieran Tierney's performance, injury to Takehiro Tomiyasu and what that could mean for the Scot's chances of starting at Stamford Bridge.

Plus with Josh Kroenke in attendance at Emirates, what plans are Arsenal looking to set out ahead of the World Cup break and upcoming January transfer window?

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0:00.0	The Athletic.
0:05.7	The only way to score is, of course, to play with a handbreak-off.
0:19.1	Hello, I'm Ian Stone. This is Handbreak- of the Arsenal podcast brought to you by The Athletic.
0:24.7	We'll be discussing last night slightly more nervy than it perhaps should have been 1-0 victory over FC Zurich,
0:30.7	as well as Sunday's upcoming Big Six Clash with Chelsea at Stanford Bridge.
0:35.5	We're joined by two TikTok pundits and analysts.
0:38.5	James McNicholas and Adrian Clark.
0:40.1	Morning.
0:40.8	Hello, good morning.
0:42.2	Morning.
0:42.9	Before we get going, we did get through the Europa League group stages, which, let's be
0:47.8	fair, I think it's agreed.
0:49.5	It's something painful that you just have to do.
0:52.3	So I thought I'd ask, what else that is not fun?
0:55.6	Do you have to just grit your teeth and get through?
0:57.9	I have seen it likened to a trip to the dentist for root canal work.
1:01.4	I asked this morning and said it was like a trip to the proctologist.
1:04.2	If you don't know, look it up.
1:06.8	Any others?
1:08.4	Adrian, what's something painful that you just have to get through?
1:11.3	Well, the thing that came to mind, it took me back, actually.
1:14.9	So I did A-levels when I was at Arsenal in my spare time, so I was a footballer,
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