Is this really the end of the world?
Handbrake Off: The Athletic FC's Arsenal show
The Athletic
4.6 • 734 Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Amy Lawrence and Adrian Clarke join Ian Stone to reflect on Arsenal's 3-2 defeat to Manchester United, and ask whether the result really is the end of the world.
The panel discuss the nature of the loss, what it means for the Gunners' title hopes and whether Mikel Arteta and his players can use it as a wake up call.
Plus, the lack of attacking threat, what needs to change and whether the biggest threat to Arsenal’s title challenge is Arsenal.
Produced by Jay Beale.
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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. |
| 0:14.5 | Hello, I'm Ian Stone. |
| 0:15.7 | This is Hand-Break-Off, the Arsenal podcast, brought to you by The Athletic. |
| 0:20.8 | Unfortunately. Unfortunately, |
| 0:21.9 | today we're going to be talking about Arsenal's 3-2 defeat to Manchester Night and I'm |
| 0:27.8 | joined by Amy Lawrence and Adrian Clark. Good morning. Good morning. Morning. Morning. We were |
| 0:32.8 | going to do this last night, Amos, right? This is the plan. The plan was to finish the game |
| 0:37.4 | and then go straight |
| 0:38.7 | over to Amis where she'd laid on drinks and I was hoping Volivance, but apparently not. |
| 0:44.4 | And we were going to talk about all this straight after the game. But then we didn't feel like it, |
| 0:50.7 | to be honest with you. So we waited until this morning, right? We went home and thought about other things for a while. |
| 0:56.2 | Shot off, didn't we? He just shut off. It was like, I've seen enough. Yeah. Do you know, I was home. I have to say the journey home was as quick as I've ever had. It just all worked out. Got the bus, got the train. I was home in 45 minutes. and I was fine until Jay, who was producing |
| 1:10.0 | today phone me. |
| 1:11.0 | How are you? |
| 1:12.9 | At which point I wasn't. |
| 1:14.5 | Amy, |
| 1:14.9 | what? in 45 minutes. And then I was fine until Jay, who was producing, that they phoned me. I said, how are you? I wasn't. Amy, what are you more worried about? Arsenal, the world? Because what happened was? I got home and I started watching the news and I thought, well, maybe a change of vibe or cheer me up. It didn't help, to be honest with you. What are you more worried about at the moment? That's a really good existentialist question. |
| 1:29.8 | It is. |
| 1:30.4 | Yeah, very good. |
| 1:31.1 | It is. |
| 1:31.5 | I am known for being chronically indecisive. |
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