It's not done
Handbrake Off: The Athletic FC's Arsenal show
The Athletic
4.6 • 731 Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Amy Lawrence and Adrian Clarke join Ian Stone to discuss Arsenal’s 2-1 loss away to Manchester City on Sunday.
The panel reflect on the positive performance despite the loss, feeling encouraged for the run-in, the improved balance of the starting eleven, the impact of missing the first choice starters on the right hand side, the lack of consistency in attack this season, the decision to take off Eze, recognising what Arsenal are up against in Manchester City and this team doing a lot right despite having fallen short in the last few title races.
Plus, they pay tribute to Alex Manninger and respond to some listener messages.
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 |
| 0:11.9 | Hello I'm Ian Stone |
| 0:16.0 | This is Handbreak Off, the Arsenal podcast |
| 0:18.8 | Brought to you by The Athletic |
| 0:20.6 | Yeah, we're going to be talking about losing 2-1 away and Manchester City is Handbrake off, the Arsenal podcast, brought to you by The Athletic. |
| 0:25.4 | Yeah, we're going to be talking about losing two, one away and Manchester City yesterday. |
| 0:27.4 | I'm joined by Adrian Clark and Amy Lawrence. |
| 0:28.3 | Good morning. |
| 0:28.8 | Morning. |
| 0:29.4 | Good morning. |
| 0:30.5 | Good morning. |
| 0:34.7 | Me and Amy already had a half-hour chat this morning. |
| 0:36.7 | We're just going to continue that on here. |
| 0:40.4 | Yeah, Debtler Rice at the end was seen saying to martin herdegaard is not done he looked properly pissed off at the end right and i'm |
| 0:45.1 | pleased about that what did you guys say at the full-time whistle adrian what did you say something |
| 0:49.7 | similar i think yeah like just trying to recollect it, but yeah, my reaction, I was on commentary |
| 0:56.7 | duty with Dan Roebuck. And I think I might have almost said those exact words. It's not done, |
| 1:01.9 | you know. That was better. I think that was along the lines of sort of my rap. That was much better. |
| 1:08.3 | It could have gone either way. I think that line was uttered. Sort of a |
| 1:12.5 | flip of the coin game. So yeah, it looks very, very similar. That was my feeling. I was obviously |
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