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Handbrake Off: The Athletic FC's Arsenal show

The Athletic

Soccer, Football, Sports

4.6 • 650 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Join James McNicholas, Adrian Clarke, and Art de Roche for this week's Handbrake Off - and it's a joyous one

This week: we dish out the love for Gabriel Martinelli as we look back on victory at Elland Road. The team discuss who should be captain and we hand out our Handbrake Off-scars too.

RUNNING ORDER

PART 1 - Breakthrough games (01.00)

PART 2a - Leeds 1-4 Arsenal (07.30)

PART 2b - Who should be captain? (32.00)

PART 3 - Handbrake Off-scars (38.00)

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0:00.0	The Athletic.
0:09.5	The only way to score is, of course, to play with a handbreak-off.
0:18.3	Hello and welcome to Handbrake-Off, the Arsenal podcast brought to you by The Athletic.
0:24.7	Yes, it's me, James McNicholas.
0:27.3	I've been promoted to the big chair this week.
0:29.4	There's no Ian, no Amy.
0:31.5	I'm kind of a caretaker manager, if you will, sort of Stuart Houston filling in on the sidelines.
0:36.8	But fortunately,
0:38.9	I have got the A team with me. I've got Adrian Clark and Art DeRosche. How are you doing,
0:45.5	guys? You're right? Hello, James. Good to see me. Hey, James. Good to see you. Good to see you.
0:51.6	And good for you to see my messy office through the webcam. But fortunately, the listeners won't ever see you. Good to see you and good for you to see my messy office through the webcam,
0:56.2	but fortunately the listeners won't ever see that. I think we're all a little bit pleasantly surprised
1:01.6	that Saturday's game actually went ahead. It was one of the few at the weekend and it was the
1:06.7	match of the day on BBC, the one and only match of the day. And we're going to talk about the game
1:13.0	in more depth soon, but one of the major stories coming out of it was the performance of Gabriel
1:17.3	Martinelli. It was outstanding. And his brace, it had the feel of one of those breakthrough
1:22.4	performances where a player really announces himself to the league. So for our opening question today,
1:29.1	we're going to ask,
1:30.2	what are some other performances
1:31.8	where players announce themselves on the Arsenal stage?
1:35.9	And Art, I'll come to you first.
1:37.6	I think people who follow me on Twitter
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