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Handbrake Off: The Athletic FC's Arsenal show
The Athletic
4.6 • 731 Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Arsenal are Premier League champions.
Amy Lawrence, Adrian Clarke and Art de Roche join Ian Stone to reflect on the club's first title in 22 years.
The panel reflect on how they’re feeling the morning after, the celebrations outside the stadium, the communal experience of the fans celebrating together all over the world, avoiding final day anxiety, similarities to the 1989 title celebrations, paying tribute to Mikel Arteta for what he’s done for the club in his first managerial club, the player celebrations and showing they have the bottle to get over the line.
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 Stone. |
| 0:16.4 | This is Handbrake-Off, the Arsenal podcast, brought to you by the Athletic. |
| 0:21.0 | Now, I know we did a pod yesterday, but circumstances have somewhat changed because this |
| 0:29.5 | morning, as you absolutely will know, we will be celebrating Arsenal's first Premier |
| 0:34.8 | League title in 22 years. |
| 0:37.1 | Yay! With the game to spare, with the game to spare, I'm joined by Adrian Clark, Art de Roche. I'm sorry, I don't know why that came out like that. I'm joined by Adrian Clarke, Ardorogne, and Amy Lawrence. Good morning. Never in doubt. Good morning. Good morning. Right. Before we start, how many hours |
| 0:56.0 | sleep you had? Zero. None. Amy? Um, a bit more than usual, actually, because I slept for, I don't know, |
| 1:03.6 | feels like six months, so, you know. A few. I was at peace. Yeah, that's right. All relaxed. Finally, |
| 1:10.0 | you can sleep after 22 years. Adrian, how about you? How many hours? Tricker, go. Yeah, that's right. All relaxed. Finally, you can sleep after 22 years. Adrian, how about you? He let trick-a-tricker go. Yeah, finally trick-a-tricker was dumped in the bin. No need for that anymore. Four hours or so I found it pretty difficult. But it was, yeah, we had to savour last night, right? I think so, yeah. What a special feeling. |
| 1:28.5 | I had a comfortable nine. |
| 1:29.1 | It's great. Honestly, I woke up this morning. I didn't even know until this morning. It's lovely. Really? Oh, brilliant. Went to bed just before the end. City. I thought, oh, they're never to be going to win. Anyway, they drew last night and that means that our star |
| 1:46.5 | large champions for a first time |
| 1:47.7 | since 2004. Just by the way, I was looking, 2004, a pint of beer in the UK cost |
| 1:56.4 | £2.33, just to let you know, when Arsenal last won the title. |
| 2:02.9 | I think it's a bit more than that now, isn't it? I believe. |
| 2:06.2 | A bit more interested in the price of champagne, truthfully. |
| 2:09.2 | That is, well, they didn't list that. In the articles I read, Amy, it was only beer. |
| 2:15.7 | All right, a bottle of water then. How about that? A little bottle of water in a plastic bottle. |
| 2:21.2 | That's right. Well, I imagine it was cheaper. |
| 2:23.6 | Detlin Rice said after the city game, it's not done, right? It's not done. And that almost was one of the pivotal moments. |
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