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Handbrake Off: The Athletic FC's Arsenal show
The Athletic
4.6 • 650 Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2020
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
The Athletic's James McNicholas and Michael Cox join Ian Stone and former Arsenal right back Lee Dixon, to wonder where Arsenal's creativity has gone.
Arsenal's new midfield signing Thomas Partey gets the thumbs up, and the panel also reminisce on which opposing player always gave them a sense of dread.
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| 0:00.0 | The only way to score is, of course, to play with a handbreak-off. |
| 0:17.7 | Hello, I'm Ian Stone. This is The Handbrake Off, the Arsenal podcast for The Athletic. I'm joined this morning by two writers for The Athletic, James from Nicholas and Michael Cox. Hello, guys. |
| 0:28.9 | Hello, hello. Hello, and the ex-Arsnal fallback and proud wearer of the number two shirts, Mr. Lee Dixon. |
| 0:37.3 | Morning. Morning. |
| 0:38.2 | Morning. |
| 0:38.8 | We were just having a discussion about shirts before we started. |
| 0:42.0 | Lee was talking about how he likes players to be wearing the correct shirt. |
| 0:46.8 | And, hey, you wore that number two with distinction, if I may say so, Mr. Dixon. |
| 0:51.1 | Thank you very much. |
| 0:52.1 | It's all right. |
| 0:52.5 | War the 12 a few times as well, but that was later on in my career. |
| 0:56.2 | Yeah, 12 would be different now, wouldn't it? |
| 0:58.8 | I mean, 12 could be on the pitch as opposed to you're the first and only sub. |
| 1:03.6 | Before we get, we are going to talk a little bit about the, the Lester game called |
| 1:09.0 | Help us. |
| 1:09.9 | Before we do, we're going to talk about the fact that |
| 1:13.9 | Jamie Vardy once again scored his, as Teo, our producer said, 11th 100th goal against Arsenal. |
| 1:21.0 | And so we thought we'd ask the question, which player over the years gave you that sense of |
| 1:24.9 | dreading your stomach on game day? lee i'll start with you did you get |
| 1:29.8 | that with any players or did you look forward to the battle i mean i guess it's a bit of both isn't it |
| 1:33.4 | really um i didn't get it with players i was playing against because i was you know i've got no |
| 1:39.5 | choice about that when the team sheet comes in and you've got Ryan Giggs, then you've just got to get on with it. |
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