Man Utd reaction, “Super-Coaches” and Ray Kennedy

Handbrake Off: The Athletic FC's Arsenal show

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Soccer, Football, Sports

4.6 • 650 Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Join Ian Stone, Amy Lawrence, Art de Roché and a cameo from James McNicholas as we reflect on Arsenal’s disappointing 3-2 defeat to Manchester United.

In this episode: why do Arsenal seem to bottle just as they’re about to make a step forward? Is this just part of the growing pains of a young side, and a young manager, or are the senior players not pulling their weight?

Plus we discuss James’ article on “super-coaches”, does it matter that Arsenal don’t have one?

We pay tribute to a star of the 1971 Double winning side Ray Kennedy after his passing, and have a song to end.

RUNNING ORDER

PART 1a - Bizarrest goal you’ve ever seen (01.00)

PART 1b - Man Utd 3-2 Arsenal (7.30)

PART 1c - James McNicholas post-match from Old Trafford (21.44)

PART 2a - “Super-Coaches” (28.04)

PART 2b - tribute to Ray Kennedy (36.31)

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0:00.0	The Athletic
0:02.7	The only way to score is, of course, to play with a handbreak-off.
0:15.6	Hello and welcome to Hand Break Off, the Arsenal podcast, brought to you by The Athletic I'm Ian Stone,
0:21.6	joined today by Amy Lawrence and Art de Roche.
0:24.8	Hello, guys.
0:26.1	Morning.
0:27.0	Morning.
0:27.9	Morning.
0:28.6	Morning.
0:29.2	Morning.
0:29.2	Yes, that's the spirit.
0:30.7	I think we can call this one the contractual obligation podcast.
0:35.7	We sort of feel like we have to maybe go through the game last night. By the way,
0:41.0	you will also hear the voice of James McNicholas, who was at Old Trafford. He did a little post-match recording,
0:48.0	which will play to you at some point. Yeah, a little bit soul-destroying, really, a little bit upsetting. We sort of felt like
0:56.3	they were there for the taking, especially after we went one nil up with one of the
1:02.0	strangest goals I think any of us have ever seen. So we thought we'd ask the question,
1:06.5	what are the other quite odd goals you've seen over the years?
1:11.5	We have opened this out, not just Arsenal goals, but Amy, we'll start with you.
1:16.0	Yeah, I mean, I guess the one that springs most readily to mind is the controversial goal against Sheffield United in the FA Cup that led to the very unusual.
1:26.8	I'm not sure I can ever remember a similar
1:28.6	situation as this, where the game finished and everybody decided it wasn't cool, so they
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