Looking ahead to Southampton and a busy summer

Handbrake Off: The Athletic FC's Arsenal show

The Athletic

Soccer, Football, Sports

4.6 • 650 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Arsenal play their final game of the season against Southampton on Sunday with 2nd place all but secured. Art de Roché and Adrian Clarke join Ian Stone to look ahead to the match.

They discuss Hale End prospect Max Dowman’s performance for England U17s, the individual moment’s of brilliance we’ve experienced this season and the need for more next campaign.

Plus Arsenal's potential transfers this summer and praising the players who look set to leave.

Produced by Robby Williams.

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0:00.0	The Athletic FC Podcast Network.
0:07.0	The only way to score is, of course, to play with a handbreak-off.
0:14.4	Hello, I'm Ian Stone.
0:15.9	This is Handbrake-Off, the Arsenal podcast, brought to you by The Athletic.
0:22.9	No midweek match for the Arsenal.
0:26.5	One more game to play this season. We're going to look at here to our final game,
0:31.5	though, against Southampton for the weekend. I'm joined by Art de Rocheon, Adrian Clark. Morning.
0:37.0	Hello. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Good morning. Good afternoon. You're absolutely right.
0:55.5	We're recording this just past midday. See, Robbie, right, our producer, is opener. We're going to talk about, did anyone, any of you watch the Europa League Final last night? I don't care. I don't care. We know them lot won, but I don't care. And I'm also, by the way, reveling in the fact that May and I had finished 16th or possibly 14th, but it doesn't really matter.
1:00.1	And they haven't got European football next season. And they've still got Harry McGuire,
1:04.1	and they've still got Christian Erickson on the bench. And so there's a lot to be happy about.
1:10.2	But apparently it was a terrible game, right?
1:13.3	Adrian, terrible game.
1:14.8	Oh, it was awful, yeah.
1:15.7	It was a sort of a fitting final between two really bang average teams and the scruffiest cult you'll ever see in your life.
1:24.2	I won't ever see it.
1:25.2	I won't ever see it.
1:26.5	No, you won't ever see it.
1:26.8	Unless it's sort of playing somewhere where I happen to walk in and see it.
1:30.5	And I go, oh, right, that's what happened.
1:32.5	Yeah, it happened.
1:34.1	Like, yeah, it's annoying because obviously Spurs fans are gloating and whatnot.
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