Pulchritude and fortitude

Handbrake Off: The Athletic FC's Arsenal show

The Athletic

Soccer, Football, Sports

4.6 • 650 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Join Ian Stone, Adrian Clarke and James McNicholas for a look back on Arsenal's win over West Ham.

This week: big up Nketiah, big up Holding, and big up securing top six.

With a team that was largely mad up of squad players, Arsenal were able to make their way past a strong West Ham team at the London Stadium on Sunday afternoon. We look at the players who shone, who got in Declan Rice's face, and whether they'll all be staying at the club come next season.

Plus a discussion on Arsenal's potential new anthem

RUNNING ORDER

PART 1 - Cult heroes : 01:00

PART 2 - West Ham 1-2 Arsenal : 10:00

PART 3 - North London forever… : 30.00

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0:00.0	The Athletic.
0:02.0	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.
0:22.7	I'm Ian Stone, and today we're going to be looking back over, as Michel Artetta called it,
0:26.9	the ugly win against West Ham at the London Stadium.
0:30.2	To do that, we have two beautiful guests.
0:32.6	I'm luxuriating in your pulcritude as we speak.
0:36.6	It's Adrian Clark and James James McNicholas. Morning.
0:40.3	Good morning.
0:41.3	Good morning. That's put me in a good mood. Yeah.
0:43.3	To be honest, I didn't understand it, but I'll take it.
0:46.3	No, I pretended I did.
0:48.3	Pulchitude is beauty, great beauty.
0:51.3	I, you know, I don't know where I picked it up, but anyway,
0:55.1	apparently I was listening sometimes at school.
0:57.6	Anyway, as we know, Rob Holdings scored his first goal in the Premier League
1:01.7	and the first in league competition since 2016.
1:05.2	Doesn't that feel like a long time ago when he scored for Bolton against M.K. Don's in the championship.
1:09.3	All it took, as Aaron Ramsdale
1:10.9	said in the interview after the game, was six years and a new hairline. And by the way,
1:15.6	I thought Holding looked slightly pained and said, come on, mate. That was very funny.
1:19.7	Anyway, here at Handbrake Off, we think that Rob Holding is rapidly becoming a cult hero.
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