Hale End sensations sink Brighton
Handbrake Off: The Athletic FC's Arsenal show
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4.6 • 734 Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Amy Lawrence and Art de Roché join Ian Stone to reflect on Arsenal’s 2-0 win against Brighton in the Carabao Cup at the Emirates on Wednesday night.
The panel reflect on Arsenal’s historic October, Hale End’s recent success, developments in youth football as a whole, Max Dowman becoming the youngest ever starter for the club, the first team debut of Andre Harriman-Annous, and we hear from Myles Lewis-Skelly on embracing the challenge of competition in the squad.
Plus, they look ahead to Burnley away on Saturday and we hear from Ken in Tokyo in the latest instalment of ‘Up Your Arsenal’.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FC. |
| 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. This is Hand-break-off, the Arsenal podcast, brought to you by The Athletic. |
| 0:20.6 | We're going to look back on Arsenal's 2-0 win against Brighton in the Carabelle yesterday. And look ahead to the game away at Burnley on Saturday. I'm joined by Amy Lawrence and Art de Roche. Good morning. Good morning. Good afternoon. Hello. Good evening and good night, whichever it is. Whenever you're listening, hello guys, nice to see you. Well, as we know, |
| 0:40.3 | beating Brighton 2-0 last night. Four Hail Enders started for Arsenal, age 19, 18, 17 and 15. |
| 0:47.9 | Mikhail Alteta said after the game, we made two huge debuts for Max and Andre. That feeling of giving the opportunity to |
| 0:55.3 | somebody in fulfilling a dream is unique and I'm very happy that things turned out to be very |
| 0:59.4 | positive. When has someone helped you to fulfill your dream? Surely it's this, isn't it, |
| 1:05.0 | talking to me and Amy? I mean, this has got to be the dream. To be there, it's along those lines. |
| 1:11.0 | Yeah. And actually, James Benj is going to be really dream. To be there, it's along those lines. Yeah. |
| 1:11.3 | And actually, James Benj is going to be really happy days getting another mention. |
| 1:15.7 | He does every week. |
| 1:16.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:16.9 | He does some like financial arrangement with him. |
| 1:19.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:20.3 | So when I was at uni, I was obviously studying sports journalism and Arsenal under 21s were playing quite local to where I was at. |
| 1:29.1 | It was called a Czech trade trophy then. |
| 1:32.3 | And yeah, I just managed to get to a game. |
| 1:35.2 | And afterwards, it was Freddie Jungberg who was in charge. |
| 1:38.9 | So I asked Freddie some questions after the game. |
| 1:42.8 | And James was there. |
| 1:45.7 | And he was working for the Evening Standard at the time but yeah he kind of I guess recognized me again when a year later |
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