How costly will Eze’s injury be?
Handbrake Off: The Athletic FC's Arsenal show
The Athletic
4.6 • 734 Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Art de Roché and Adrian Clarke join Ian Stone to discuss all things Arsenal and dip into the customary mailbag for the final international break of the season.
The panel reflect on Arsenal’s 3-1 win in the UWCL quarter-final first leg, Eze’s calf injury keeping him out for a month, solutions to help Saka find his best form, Odegaard’s expected return from injury and Ben White’s call up to the England Squad.
Plus, they answer some listener questions and we hear from Abhinav in India in this week’s instalment of ‘Up Your Arsenal’.
If you like the panel’s song choices, check out the ‘Now that’s what I call Handbrake’ playlist on both Spotify and Apple Music and listen to them all there:
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/playlist/now-thats-what-i-call-handbrake/pl.u-d2b00jZuDxWk6P
Producer: Robby Williams
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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. |
| 0:14.7 | Hello, I'm Ian Stowe. This is Hand-Break-Off, the Arsenal podcast. |
| 0:17.6 | Brought to you by The Athletic. It's the final international break of the season. |
| 0:21.3 | So we'll be chatting Arsenal news and we'll do a mini mailbag answering some of the |
| 0:24.8 | questions you've sent in. |
| 0:26.2 | I'm joined by Art de Roche and Adrian Clark. |
| 0:28.6 | Good morning. |
| 0:30.0 | Morning. |
| 0:30.8 | Morning. |
| 0:31.3 | Oh, it's got slightly sort of blurry camera. |
| 0:34.4 | This does happen to you quite regularly. |
| 0:36.3 | What is going on? |
| 0:37.3 | I honestly have no idea how to fix it. |
| 0:39.6 | Okay. Sorry. Isn't it just a clean? Isn't that just, you know? No, no. It's the focus. It's the focus. It goes out of |
| 0:47.1 | focus. Oh, this is like the Arsenal, isn't it? Really. It's like the Arsenal on Sunday. Were you there, |
| 0:52.5 | by the way? Yeah, I was me, James, Amy and Adrian were all there. Well, I know, yes. We spoke to Adrian and Amy. You all got a spot, did you? Yeah. In fact, everyone essentially got a free ticket except for me, is what you'll say. We lunched together, didn't we? It was very pleasant. That was the good part of the day. |
| 1:26.9 | Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right. It was a good part of the day. By the way, I think we can agree that William Saliba had a good game. You know, there weren't many good performances, but he had very specific job. You just stopped that brute Erling Harland, and he did that, didn't he? His name is Brute, isn't it, actually? isn't it only |
| 1:27.2 | Brune |
| 1:27.6 | but anyway |
| 1:28.2 | it was |
| 1:28.6 | his |
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