Nice kick about with the boys aged 15 years and 181 days

Handbrake Off: The Athletic FC's Arsenal show

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Soccer, Football, Sports

4.6 • 650 Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Joining Ian Stone this week is Amy Lawrence and Adrian Clarke after a weekend that saw seven goals, two table toppers, and a Premier League record broken across Arsenal Football Club.

First up we relish a near perfect Arsenal performance after their 3-0 win over the Bees which saw goals for Saliba, Jesus, and Vieira. One member of the team suggests that from minute two they knew this would be a win. We discuss a certain Swiss player who has made himself "undroppable" and question whether the club has been playing him in the wrong place the whole time!

There's a discussion on Ethan Nwaneri who became the Premier League's youngest ever player at 15 years and 181 days. We discuss what happens next with Nwaneri, and reveal what we were up to at the same stage in our lives.

And finally the Women's Super League got underway on Friday night at Meadow Park as Arsenal bested Brighton 4-0. Adrian tells us all about his time there.

RUNNING ORDER

Brentford 0-3 Arsenal - 07.00

Ethan Nwaneri - 28.00

Arsenal 4-0 Brighton - 34.00

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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.
0:16.2	Hello, I'm Ian Stone.
0:17.8	This is Handbreak-off, the Arsenal podcast, brought to you by The Athletic.
0:22.3	I hope you've had a good weekend, and if you're listening to this, why wouldn't you?
0:26.3	Arsenal's men team are top of the table. A child born after we moved to the Emirates made his league debut.
0:32.6	And Arsenal women opened their account with a thumping 4-0 victory.
0:36.9	We'll talk about all those things with our esteemed guests.
0:39.7	Amy Lawrence and Adrian Clark, morning.
0:41.7	Good morning.
0:42.4	Hello.
0:43.1	So as I just mentioned, Ethan Waniari became the youngest player ever to play in the Premier League at the weekend,
0:47.8	as he was brought on for the last few minutes of our victory over Brentford, age 15 years and 181 days. Feeling old, guys.
0:58.5	Cool, see, that is less than 15 and a half. So I was just wondering, what were you up to
1:05.6	age 15 years and 181 days? Amy, what were you doing? I'd say I was probably mostly being quite
1:14.3	melancholy and morose in my bedroom listening to bloomy music. That's most of us, to be
1:21.7	honest with you. But I did, I was belatedly, well, I'm not sure grateful is the right word,
1:28.7	but producer Abby sent us this website where you could calculate exactly, you know,
1:34.0	when the date would be or how old you were,
1:36.4	how many days it needed to be for you to reach 15 and 181 days since your birthday.
1:42.2	But that came after I spent quite a long time sitting there, old-fashioned with sort of, you know, pencil and paper trying to work it all out.
1:51.5	The one thing that I would say is it was a really really interesting period for Arsenal when I was 15 and 181 days.
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