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Handbrake Off: The Athletic FC's Arsenal show
The Athletic
4.6 • 731 Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Amy Lawrence and Adrian Clarke join Ian Stone to discuss Arsenal’s 1-0 win against West Ham on Sunday.
The panel reflect on the VAR drama at the end of the game, the outrage surrounding West Ham’s goal being ruled out, if this was the pivotal moment for Arsenal’s title charge, this match being the hardest obstacle in the run-in, Raya being one of Arsenal’s best ever goalkeepers, the defensive effort from the entire team, Arteta bravely correcting his earlier questionable substitutions, Odegaard’s game changing cameo after a tough season, Trossard coming up clutch once again, Lewis-Skelly continuing his great form and acknowledging Ben White’s contribution to the club since joining.
Plus, they respond to listener messages and discuss how the team will prepare with eight days until the final home game.
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 |
| 0:03.3 | The only way to score is of course to play |
| 0:10.0 | with a handbreak-off. |
| 0:14.7 | Hello, I'm Ian Stone. |
| 0:16.1 | This is Handbreak-off, |
| 0:17.1 | the Arsenal podcast, |
| 0:18.5 | brought to you by The Athletic. |
| 0:21.1 | Today, we'll be chatting about what we saw yesterday, West Ham Neal, Arsenal One. |
| 0:28.8 | To do that, I'm joined by Adrian Clark and Amy Lawrence. |
| 0:32.6 | Good morning. |
| 0:33.6 | Good morning. Good morning. |
| 0:35.1 | Hello. |
| 0:35.8 | Morning. |
| 0:36.4 | Can't wait to talk about it. |
| 0:38.0 | No, but this could have been such a different intro and morning, couldn't it? |
| 0:43.0 | Let's be fair. |
| 0:44.1 | But anyway, it isn't. |
| 0:45.6 | That's another life. |
| 0:47.3 | I mean, God, there is a lot to talk about. |
| 0:49.3 | I want to mention the VAR just because me and Amy had our usual little pre-podcast chat. |
| 0:56.3 | And Amy came up with the idea of asking if you could use VAR in your personal life. |
| 1:04.9 | What would you use it for? |
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