Eze magic makes the difference
Handbrake Off: The Athletic FC's Arsenal show
The Athletic
4.6 • 734 Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Amy Lawrence and Adrian Clarke join Ian Stone to reflect on Arsenal’s 1-0 victory against Crystal Palace at the Emirates on Sunday.
The panel reflect on Arsenal becoming statistical favourites to win the league, the faith that they have in the team’s formidable defence, the media narratives around Arsenal’s set piece prowess, Jurrien Timber’s excellent performance and Eberechi Eze’s moment of magic with a fantastic acrobatic goal against his former club to open his Premier League account.
Plus, they discuss Max Dowman’s contract signing, continue the discourse around the Emirates crowd leaving games early and look ahead to Brighton in the Carabao Cup.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FC |
| 0:03.3 | The only way to score is of course to play |
| 0:10.0 | with a handbreak-off |
| 0:11.9 | Hello I'm Ian Stone |
| 0:16.2 | This is Handbreak-off, the Arsenal podcast |
| 0:18.0 | Brought to you by The Athletic |
| 0:20.7 | We'll be looking back on the 1-0 win at home to Palace on Sunday. |
| 0:24.7 | And also look ahead to Brighton, the Caravow Cup, Wednesday night. |
| 0:28.2 | I'm joined by Amy Lawrence. |
| 0:30.1 | And welcome back to Adrian Clark. |
| 0:32.1 | Morning. |
| 0:32.8 | Good morning. |
| 0:33.5 | Hi-ya. |
| 0:34.0 | Morning. |
| 0:34.8 | Adrian, you've been on a holiday last week. |
| 1:11.1 | Rested. You're having a laugh, mate, yeah. I mean, yeah, my voice is gone. I'm a little bit broke. I'd live life to the max. It was good. We went to Dubai. I've got two young children, so there's no relaxing. I'm the dad who's in the pool all holiday, basically,. But yeah, no, it was great fun, great fun. But yeah, I feel pretty broken, to be honest. I feel like, need a holiday is what you're saying. After your holiday, yeah, I get that. And because we were wondering about how sort of diligent a fan are you on holiday. I mean, I'm assuming you watch the games. |
| 1:12.6 | Where do you watch it? |
| 1:28.3 | I was going to say, do you get a bar. They do have bars in Dubai. Of course they do. Where do you watch it? Yeah, well, it's a really good point, actually, because the time difference doesn't help. So my viewpoint is, I'm happy to miss it. I'm on holiday. I'm not going to work everything around it but I will watch it |
| 1:29.6 | with a bit of downtime so what I did I'm happy to miss it. I'm on holiday. I'm not going to work everything around it. |
| 1:28.5 | But I will watch it with a bit of downtime. |
| 1:30.8 | So what I did, the Fulham game, I got up super early. |
| 1:35.4 | I got my towel down out by the pool. |
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