Massive and crushing disappointment

Handbrake Off: The Athletic FC's Arsenal show

The Athletic

Soccer, Football, Sports

4.6 • 650 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Join Ian Stone, Amy Lawrence and Adrian Clarke for look back at a miserable night in N17.

This week: we dissect the disappointing night that saw Spurs easily best Arsenal. We debate the big calls on the night, talk through what it means for the rest of the season, and learn about "bread poultice"

RUNNING ORDER

PART 1 - Bread poultice: 01:00

PART 2a - Spurs 3-0 Arsenal : 08 :00

PART 3a - Champions League or Europa League : 29.00

PART 3b - Newcastle preview : 32.00

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0:00.0	The Athletic.
0:09.5	The only way to score is, of course, to play with a handbreak-off.
0:18.1	Hello, I'm Ian Stone, and welcome to Handbreak-off, the Arsenal podcast, brought to you by The Athletic and featuring huge anticipation followed by massive and crushing disappointment.
0:30.6	To help us through the grieving process, I'm joined by Amy Lawrence and Adrian Clark.
0:36.7	Morning, guys.
0:38.8	Morning.
0:39.8	Hey, so great to see you.
0:43.1	Look, just think of us, kids, as some sort of bread poultice, all right?
0:47.4	What we'll do for the next half an hour's will suck the poison out, okay?
0:51.5	I'm not sure people use those things anymore, but people used to, in the old days, people
0:55.4	used to put a bit of meat on a bruise and it would bring it out, essentially.
0:59.5	So that's really what we're doing, the massive bruise of last night's pasting at the old
1:05.3	Armitage Shanks Tollet Bowl Stadium.
1:07.5	Before we get to that, me and Amy have a chat pre-show when I say, why don't we do this for an opening question? And she goes, no, no, no, that's rubbish. We won't do that. We'll do something else. And she makes a suggestion because I was saying biggest disappointments. And she went, really? Is that what you want to do? And I thought, I know, no, but what I'd like to do is not talk about what happened last night.
1:32.0	So Amy came up with a mastermind subject that you would choose if it wasn't Arsenal.
1:36.2	Amy, what would be your mastermind subject that you would choose if it wasn't Arsenal?
1:39.8	The complete comedy works of Ian Stone.
1:40.9	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:42.4	Okay, thank you.
1:43.7	I mean, that's very nice. Niche, I would suggest in Ian Stone's 1998 show, he did a routine. Yeah, yeah, yeah, something like that.
1:52.2	Yeah, all right. Okay, it probably won't be that really. No.
1:55.7	I probably have to go for some sort of 1980s music.
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