Martinelli's instant impact, Edu unlocked, and let's get seven strikers!

Handbrake Off: The Athletic FC's Arsenal show

The Athletic

Soccer, Football, Sports

4.6 • 650 Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Join Ian Stone, Amy Lawrence and James McNicholas for a look back on Arsenal's 2-0 victory over Newcastle

This week: who's a streaky striker, who have been the best impact subs, and who could be joining the Arsenal ranks in the future?

Plus we preview United v Arsenal, talk to James about Edu, and have a song to end

RUNNING ORDER

PART 1 - Impact subs (01.00)

PART 2a - Arsenal 2-0 Newcastle (06.00)

PART 2b - United v Arsenal preview (25.00)

PART 3 - Edu Exclusive (36.00)

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0:00.0	The Athletic.
0:09.6	The only way to score is, of course, to play with a handbreak-off.
0:18.1	Hello and welcome to Handbreak-off, the Arsenal podcast, brought to you by The Athletic.
0:22.6	I'm Ian Stone, joined by the first team today, Amy Lawrence and James McNicholas.
0:28.1	Good morning, guys.
0:29.7	Morning, Ian.
0:30.9	Morning.
0:32.5	Home win, clean sheet.
0:35.1	Probably a little bit happier than last week, although I don't think it was too
0:37.9	unhappy. We just understood that we were coming up against the team who were next level,
0:42.1	whereas on Saturday we came up against team who will very soon be, I think, at another level
0:49.1	to us. I mean they're going to be in the championship. I don't mean they're going to spend
0:52.5	a billion pounds of being the Champions League,
0:55.7	but that's a possibility as well.
0:58.5	We will, of course, discuss the win over Newcastle.
1:02.4	But I think the nicest moment, and we can discuss this, of course,
1:08.3	was Gabby Martinelli coming on and scoring after just 93 seconds.
1:15.5	James came up with this question, this idea. Who are the best Arsenal impact subs over the years?
1:23.5	We were just chatting about this before we started. Amy went and got what looked like an enormous encyclopedia of Arsenal.
1:27.3	I mean, that's essentially what it is. And you found some information. Did you know, Amy?
1:33.9	Well, I just wanted to refresh my memory to see if this person was actually a sub. And indeed he was. So, dear listener, come back in time, if you will, to the heady days of May 1989.
1:40.7	Famous, a little bit later on in the month for what was to come, but this was a bit before.
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