North London Derby preview, a shifting Swiss midfielder, and an all time Arsenal Women 5-a-side
Handbrake Off: The Athletic FC's Arsenal show
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🗓️ 23 September 2022
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Ian Stone is joined this week by Art De Roche and Tim Stillman to talk all things Arsenal Women ahead of this weekend's (hopefully) record breaking North London Derby.
We begin by asking everyone for their All Time Arsenal Women 5-a-side teams, who makes yours?
We get the big lowdown ahead of the North London Derby at the Emirates, who should we watch out for, how's it going to sound, and where does it go from here?
We shine a spotlight on another Swiss midfielder who's been shifted from number 6 to number 8 in the Arsenal midfield, Lia Walti. And we talk about women's team training with the Academy boys.
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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. |
| 0:17.4 | Hello, I'm Ian Stone. |
| 0:18.9 | This is Handbreak-off, the Arsenal podcast, brought to you by The Athletic. We're recording this on Friday morning, the day before the North London Derby at the Emirates. |
| 0:28.5 | Arsenal Women will take on Tottenham women in front of at least. It says here in the script, 45,000. But in fact, it's over 50,000 now, I believe, which will be a record crowd for a domestic |
| 0:40.8 | women's game in this country to talk about it. And the midweek draw with Iax and one or two |
| 0:45.1 | other bits and pieces. Art de Roche is here and Tim Stillman is here. Morning, chaps. Good morning. Good |
| 0:51.0 | morning. Good morning. Morning all. Nice to see. Look, what we thought we'd do is we'd come up with an all-time Arsenal women's five-aside team that each of you have got to come up with. I'm sure you thought long and hard about this. Tim, I'm going to come to you first. We also want you to name a manager as well. So, yeah, so the manager, I think, is |
| 1:14.6 | relatively easy. It has to be Vic Aker's, the Don of Arsenal women. I think that kind of goes |
| 1:20.9 | without saying, although Laura Harvey would be in with a shell. So my team, and I want to stress that |
| 1:26.4 | I've constructed this with five aside in mind. |
| 1:29.2 | So my 11 aside team might look slightly different, but I think a great five aside team. |
| 1:33.5 | Emma burning goal, definitely. |
| 1:36.0 | She actually, she was spotted by Arsenal playing Gaelic football as well. |
| 1:40.9 | So a bit of multidisciplinary there. |
| 1:42.9 | She's actually quite a good footballer as well. |
| 1:45.1 | My defender, Leah Williamson, again, in terms of five-a-side, really good small spaces defender, |
| 1:51.7 | brilliant passing out from the back, can dribble as well, dream five-a-side defender. |
| 1:57.1 | My midfielder's are Kim Little, again, dream five-a-side player because she's brilliant when |
| 2:04.8 | she's getting crowded out. She's great in small spaces, possibly the best dribbler in women's |
| 2:09.7 | football, I think. So definitely Kim in midfield. Alongside her in midfield, I'm going to have Jane Ludlow, the club's record goal |
| 2:19.8 | scorer from midfield. And Jane was an attacking midfielder, hence the fact she's the club's |
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