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Handbrake Off: The Athletic FC's Arsenal show

The Athletic

Soccer, Football, Sports

4.6 • 650 Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Join Ian Stone, Amy Lawrence and James McNicholas for a chat about Sunday's postponed North London Derby

This week: with everyone ganging up on Arsenal for calling off Sunday's game, we ask could this be a good thing for the club mentality? We ask who's actually around for Thursday's game against Liverpool? And we take a look back at Lord Nicklas Bendtner's time at Arsenal as the Danish striker turns 34.

RUNNING ORDER

PART 1 - How the NLD really went (01.00)

PART 2 - Postponements (05.30)

PART 3 - Happy birthday Lord Bendtner (28.00)

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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.
0:18.0	Hello and welcome to Handbreak-off, the Arsenal podcast, brought to you by The Athletic.
0:23.1	I'm Ian Stone, joined as always by James McNiclus and Amy Lawrence.
0:27.5	Good morning, guys.
0:28.9	Good morning, Ian.
0:29.7	Morning.
0:30.5	Morning.
0:31.1	No one likes us, we don't care.
0:33.4	That's what we're going to talk about today.
0:36.1	No weekend football to discuss.
0:38.2	Plenty still going on. It was, of course, meant to be the North London Derby on Sunday,
0:42.4	but as we all know, Arsenal were ravaged with COVID and injuries and inexplicable loans
0:47.6	and had no players left apart from Gunasaurus and Mikhail Arteta.
0:53.7	If the game had gone ahead on Sunday, we were going to ask,
0:58.0	how do you think it would have gone?
1:00.4	I have my own theories about this.
1:02.4	James, I'll come to you first.
1:04.3	Well, actually, I think Arsenal probably would have won anyway.
1:08.7	It's getting Arsenal.
1:10.1	And I think in some ways that would have been the funniest outcome.
1:14.0	If Arsenal had been made to play and Tottenham had crowed about it and thought,
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