Max Dowman: Game changer
Handbrake Off: The Athletic FC's Arsenal show
The Athletic
4.6 • 734 Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Amy Lawrence and Adrian Clarke join Ian Stone to discuss Arsenal’s 2-0 win against Everton at Emirates stadium on Saturday.
The panel reflect on Max Dowman’s magic moment, whether it could be pivotal in the title race, what it means to the Dowman family, his performance overall, the celebrations around the stadium at the final whistle, their favourite moments from the match, how difficult Everton made the game, Mikel Arteta’s improvement as a manager, the togetherness of the squad, and there’s a shoutout for ex-Arsenal defender Konstantinos Mavropanos.
Plus, they look ahead to the match against Bayer Leverkusen on Tuesday and respond to some listener messages.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FC |
| 0:03.3 | The only way to score is of course to play with a handbreak-off. |
| 0:14.6 | Hello, I'm Ian Stone. |
| 0:16.0 | This is Handbreak-Off, the Arsenal podcast, brought to you by The Athletic. |
| 0:20.3 | We're going to chat about Arsenal 2, Everton, Neil, at the Emirates, last night, |
| 0:25.8 | because we're recalling this on Sunday. |
| 0:28.0 | And we're going to look ahead to Bio Levecuse and the second leg of the Champions League on Tuesday. |
| 0:32.8 | By the way, I should say there might be a number of times when we say things wrong this evening, |
| 0:38.1 | because we've all essentially been drunk on excitement for the last 24 hours or whatever it is. Anyway, I'm joined |
| 0:44.2 | by Amy Lawrence and Adrian Clark. Good evening. Even in. Hello. Hello. Before we get into |
| 0:50.7 | the Max Downman show, which we are going to do, what was your favorite moment aside from Max Downman, all right? |
| 0:56.9 | One each. I'm going to go to you first, Adrian, because Amy would do all of them. But just at you first, what was your favorite moment aside from? |
| 1:04.5 | Amy can talk us through a celebration for the goal by Yokoros. We'll get to that lately. That was definitely up there. But in terms of what I saw |
| 1:12.4 | on the pitch, I think it was Califuri, that unbelievable block. He's kind of doing a press up, |
| 1:19.3 | isn't he? He's on the floor. Ryan spilled it, and is it right when Neil gets it, and he's doing |
| 1:24.9 | a press up. And he somehow has that instinct to stick that sort of leg up |
| 1:30.7 | at the right time to make what I think is one of the best blocks I've seen for years. I just thought |
| 1:36.6 | it was unbelievable. And that kind of sums up how determining this team is not to concede goals and |
| 1:43.4 | you know, it's one of the big reasons why |
| 1:45.9 | we're nine points clear at the moment so yeah califuri's moment kind of might get a little bit |
| 1:50.4 | forgotten by some but i i won't forget it no no i think that's a very very good call david moore |
| 1:55.6 | actually said the same thing about our defending yesterday and why and part of the reason that we are |
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