Reminiscing of Rosicky, Smith Rowe’s future, Palace preview
Handbrake Off: The Athletic FC's Arsenal show
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🗓️ 18 January 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
James McNicholas and Adrian Clarke join Ian Stone to preview the visit of Crystal Palace.
The panel assess the squad after a winter break in Dubai, and discuss whether Emile Smith Rowe has a future at the club.
Plus, a reflection on Tomáš Rosický’s Arsenal career, as James was recently in Prague to interview him.
Produced by Jay Beale.
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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. |
| 0:16.8 | Hello, I'm Ian Stone. |
| 0:18.2 | This is Handbreak-off, the Arsenal podcast, brought to you by The Athletic, the Arsenal return to Premier League action this weekend, facing Crystal Palace on Saturday lunchtime. |
| 0:28.2 | Today we'll be looking ahead to what feels like a bit of a make or break few games in the league, assessing the squad after their trip to Dubai and talking about a very special ex-Arsonal player. |
| 0:38.3 | To do so, I'm joined by Adrian Clark and James McNicholas. Morning. |
| 0:41.7 | Morning, Ian. |
| 0:42.4 | Good morning. |
| 0:43.1 | Nice to see you guys. |
| 0:45.1 | I'm assuming you saw the boss out for dinner in Dubai being fed steak by Salt Bay. |
| 0:51.6 | I'm assuming we saw that horrific, awful crime against humanity picture. |
| 0:59.7 | I saw the steel and I heard it being discussed on the radio. |
| 1:04.7 | So I got the picture in my head and yeah, it wasn't his finest moment. |
| 1:09.5 | It's a man feeding another man meat. |
| 1:12.5 | I mean, that's what it is. |
| 1:14.2 | Genuinely, uh, awful. |
| 1:16.0 | It's him, isn't it? |
| 1:16.8 | It's Salt Bay. |
| 1:18.0 | So we, I mean, some people are saying it was a sackable offense. |
| 1:20.9 | I think that's going a little bit too far. |
| 1:23.1 | But I think if he does it again, we're going to have, somebody's going to have to have a word. Anyway, we got us thinking, what's your food heaven? |
| 1:29.6 | And more to point, food hell as well. |
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