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Handbrake Off: The Athletic FC's Arsenal show
The Athletic
4.6 • 731 Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Amy Lawrence, Art de Roché and Adrian Clarke join Ian Stone to discuss on Arsenal’s 1-0 win against Burnley on Monday night.
The panel reflect on the scenes at the end of the game as the fans celebrated the team, the evolution of Arteta’s relationship with the fans, Saka’s perfect delivery for the goal, the atmosphere in Emirates Stadium, Arsenal's excellence in defending as a unit to see out 1-0 wins, Rice’s inspiring presence all season, Havertz’s incredible leap to score and whether he was lucky not to be sent off.
Plus, they respond to listener messages, discuss the title race and reflect on the journey that takes Arsenal to potentially one game away from the League title.
If you like the panel’s song choices, check out the ‘Now that’s what I call Handbrake’ playlist on both Spotify and Apple Music and listen to them all there:
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/playlist/now-thats-what-i-call-handbrake/pl.u-d2b00jZuDxWk6P
Producer: Robby Williams
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FC |
| 0:03.3 | The only way to score is of course to play |
| 0:10.0 | with a handbreak-off. |
| 0:14.6 | Hello, I'm Ian Stone. |
| 0:15.8 | This is Hand-Break-Off, |
| 0:16.7 | the Arsenal podcast brought to by The Athletic. |
| 0:19.3 | We're going to be talking about Arsenal's. |
| 0:22.9 | Casual, relaxed 1-0 win against Burnley. |
| 0:26.7 | Last night at the Emirates, |
| 0:29.1 | I'm joined by Adrian Clark, Art de Roche, and Amy Lawrence. |
| 0:32.2 | Good morning. |
| 0:32.8 | Good morning. |
| 0:34.9 | Morning. |
| 0:35.4 | We are saying that a lot of this might be irrelevant in about 12 hours time. |
| 0:39.8 | We're not irrelevant as such because, you know, we'll see what happens. |
| 0:44.6 | And Amy did just suggest that we record a pod at 1 o'clock on, you know, Monday night. |
| 0:51.7 | Sorry, Tuesday night, Wednesday morning, if Bournemouth get a result. |
| 0:57.3 | So we'll come back to you on that. |
| 1:00.4 | It was nice yesterday and the end, to see the players and their families after the game. |
| 1:04.3 | I thought, I did sit there thinking, Amy, I wonder what this all would have been like if we'd blown it and we got one all, sure, it would have been a bit flared. Did you really think that at the time? Because I thought that. Were you really thinking that? Yeah. Well, you know, I mean, I'm a comedian. We tend to, we tend to head towards the bleak on a regular basis. And by the way, so do you. But yeah, of course I think that. Yeah, course, did you not think that? |
| 1:29.0 | Well, the players were going around and, you know, everyone was clapping and happy. I wasn't sitting |
| 1:33.6 | at that particular moment thinking, oh my God, this could have been like death. Right. Well, I've got it |
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