4.6 • 650 Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2021
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Arsenal legend Rocky Rocastle is the focus of this week's podcast, on the anniversary of his untimely passing.
Friend and former team-mate Kevin Campbell joins Ian Stone, Nick Callow and The Athletic's Amy Lawrence to reflect on the man as much as the player.
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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. |
0:18.4 | Hello, I'm Ian Stone. This is Handbreak-off, the Arsenal podcast, brought to you by The Athletic. |
0:24.5 | So here we are in the middle of what feels like the longest international break in history. |
0:28.9 | But never mind, we've got a great pod lined up for you today. |
0:32.4 | Our guests this week are the right of the athletic, Amy Lawrence, and someone who got to run out a few weeks ago and did such |
0:37.8 | a splendid job we're having him back. It's Nick Callow. Hello, everyone. Hello. Hi, Stadley. |
0:44.1 | Amy. Nice to see you. Now, I say see you. We're all in separate rooms, but you know what I mean. |
0:49.2 | Now it's a slightly different pod this week, not just because of the international break, |
0:54.0 | but also because |
0:55.0 | Amy Lawrence has written a really beautiful piece, remembering the legend, that is David |
1:00.5 | Rocky Rowe Castle, on the anniversary of his death at the criminally young age of 33. |
1:06.0 | In about 10 minutes' time, we'll be joined by the one and only Kevin Campbell to chat about Rocky. In the meantime, |
1:13.2 | we wanted to ask Amy and Nick about their memories of Rocky and maybe their memorable goals. |
1:19.4 | Amy, I'll start with you. A memorable Rocky goal? |
1:23.6 | I'm going to not choose the one that I know Nick's going to choose, so I'll leave him to his moment of glory. |
1:29.3 | I was going to choose it as well, by the way, but OK, Nick can have that one. |
1:33.0 | What are you going to choose, Amy? |
1:34.2 | I'm a bit torn. |
1:36.6 | There's three that I feel very important. |
1:41.4 | One is the phenomenal chip over Peter Schmeichael, Old Trafford. |
1:48.3 | And it's such a wonderful goal because of the way he just shrugs off two of the greatest midfielders of that age. |
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