Handbrake on, patience running thin, and a Xhaka shaped elephant in the room

Handbrake Off: The Athletic FC's Arsenal show

The Athletic

Soccer, Football, Sports

4.6 • 650 Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Join Ian Stone, Adrian Clarke and James McNicholas for a frank breakdown of Arsenal 2-2 Crystal Palace. Adrian's watched the game back so you don't have to.

This week: was that Vieira's audition for manager, why did we put the handbrake on, and can we turn back time and bring back Santi Cazorla please?

All that plus a discussion on Olivier Giroud, insight into Danny Welbeck's late winner against Leicester and the Arsenal Women play at the Emirates

RUNNING ORDER

PART 1 - Patrick Vieira and late late goals (01.30)

PART 2 - Arsenal 2-2 Crystal Palace (08.00)

PART 3 - Olivier Giroud: nice guy and handsome devil (40.30)

PART 4 - Arsenal v Barcelona at the Emirates (45.30)

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0:00.0	The Athletic.
0:09.6	The only way to score is, of course, to play with a handbreak-off.
0:18.1	Hello and welcome to Handbrake off, the Arsenal podcast podcast brought to you by The Athletic.
0:22.8	I'm Ian Stone, joined this week by Adrian Clark and James McNicholas.
0:27.7	Good morning, chaps.
0:28.9	Morning.
0:30.1	Morning.
0:31.0	Well, that was a bit of a part of old shit, wasn't it, last night, to be honest with you.
0:37.2	Not to put too fine a point on it.
0:39.5	The best bit for me was when Patrick Vieira came out, wasn't it?
0:44.3	That was, it was nice to see him walk out and he was sort of quite different about the whole thing.
0:50.1	But that was sort of the most exciting moment, wasn't it, Adrian?
0:55.0	Do you know what? I missed it because I was on that, so I was doing the last bits of the
0:59.4	pre-match show in the studio. So then I was probably on the walk up towards the press box
1:05.2	when it, when it happened. I've watched it back since. And yeah, it was very nice. He wanted to
1:09.6	play it down clearly, but fair enough. But yeah, it was very nice. He wanted to play it down clearly.
1:11.6	Fair enough.
1:18.7	But yeah, he's, he was always a relatively sort of shy character, particularly in the early days as a player at Ars or as a youngster.
1:22.0	Obviously, he's got this, this strong aura about him.
1:25.0	He's a real, you know, dominant player.
1:27.1	But I don't think he loves that spotlight too much and was probably a little bit uncomfortable.
1:32.9	But he deserved it.
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