Rice masterful in Bayern demolition
Handbrake Off: The Athletic FC's Arsenal show
The Athletic
4.6 • 734 Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Art de Roché and James McNicholas join Ian Stone to discuss a statement 3-1 victory against Bayern Munich at Emirates Stadium on Wednesday night.
The panel reflect on another fantastic team display, impactful contributions from the bench, Mikel Merino making the false 9 role his own, Eze’s growing influence, Declan Rice’s masterful display and how Martin Zubimendi has helped him reach new levels this season.
Plus, they look ahead to Chelsea away at Stamford Bridge on Sunday and we hear from Charles in Switzerland in the latest instalment of ‘Up Your Arsenal’.
Producer: Robby Williams
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FC. |
| 0:07.1 | The only way to score is, of course, to play with a handbreak-off. |
| 0:14.8 | Hello, I'm Ian Stone, and this is Handbrake-Off, the Arsenal podcast, brought to you by The Athletic. |
| 0:21.0 | This morning we're going to talk about Arsenal 3. |
| 0:24.4 | Byron Munich 1. |
| 0:26.0 | Joining me to do that, Art de Roche and James McNicholas. |
| 0:30.5 | Good morning. |
| 0:31.6 | Good morning. |
| 0:32.4 | Good morning. |
| 0:36.0 | I don't know where to start, really. I mean, I'll tell you what we'll do, right? Before we start talking about the game, well, let's talk about the newly elected mayor of New York City, Zora and Mamdani. Also, huge Arsenal fan, got a video message from me and right, and Hector Bellerin. I mean, right, he does that to people, didn't he? I mean, he's got that |
| 0:55.3 | sort of energy. It's funny because a friend of mine who is a New Yorker voted from Mamm Darnie, |
| 1:01.7 | not interested in football at all except through me. She's sort of vicariously watching Arsenal. |
| 1:08.0 | And she sent me a message and said saying, our worlds have collided. |
| 1:13.8 | And I said, yeah, no, I understand exactly what you mean. |
| 1:18.5 | But I said to her, that's what right he does to everyone when you get a message from him. |
| 1:20.2 | It's just that's the feeling you get. |
| 1:21.0 | Yeah, definitely. |
| 1:27.1 | There's been a few times where I've been lucky enough to cross parts in person with him. And when you get kind of that, I guess, |
| 1:30.9 | affirmation from him is a very, very unique feeling, I'd say. So yeah, I can only imagine how |
| 1:37.5 | he was feeling at that moment. James, I mean, you're happy to ignore messages from Zora and |
| 1:42.5 | man darnly, aren't you to be fair? |
| 1:44.4 | Yeah. |
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