Focus on Newcastle & the battle for second

Handbrake Off: The Athletic FC's Arsenal show

The Athletic

Soccer, Football, Sports

4.6 • 650 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Arsenal play their penultimate game of the season against Newcastle on Sunday in a bid to secure second place this season.

Art de Roché and James McNicholas join Ian Stone to look ahead to the match. They discuss the injury concerns going into the game, the lack of midfield options and a potential start up front for Gabriel Martinelli.

Plus Arsenal’s open training session this week and potential upcoming transfers.

Producer: Robby Williams

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0:00.0	The Athletic FC Podcast Network.
0:07.1	The only way to score is, of course, to play with a handbreak-off.
0:15.0	Hello, I'm Ian Stone.
0:16.5	This is Hand-Break-Off, the Arsenal podcast, brought to you by The Athletic.
0:20.7	No midweek match for Arsenal this week.
0:23.3	So we're going to look ahead to Newcastle.
0:26.1	The Wii is Art de Rocha and James McNicholas.
0:28.6	Good morning.
0:29.1	Good morning.
0:29.9	Morning.
0:30.8	Morning.
0:31.5	Now, I'm assuming of your sort of video of Ethan Wanairi and Bakayo Saka,
0:36.3	basically making this phone call to Per Murtasaka.
0:40.1	Have we seen this?
0:41.3	Really, it's quite a sweet little thing.
0:43.9	This was to support the Premier League's Inside Matters campaign, and the Haleyin'
0:48.1	boys chose to check in with their former academy manager.
0:51.6	I was slightly surprised that Per Murtasaka, James, didn't have Bukaiosaka's number
0:57.5	because he went, who's this?
1:00.7	And I thought, don't you know who that is?
1:03.8	It was quite sweet, though, isn't it?
1:05.4	And it's all about mental health and checking any of your pals, right?
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