Stop being stupid
Handbrake Off: The Athletic FC's Arsenal show
The Athletic
4.6 • 731 Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Art de Roché and Adrian Clarke join Ian Stone to discuss Arsenal’s 2-1 defeat to Southampton in the FA Cup quarter-final on Saturday.
The panel reflect on how they’re feeling about the result, how well Southampton played, Dowman’s excellent performance, needing to improve managing the momentum swings in matches, some of the squad players not being at the standard required, Odegaard’s promising return from injury and their optimism for the run-in despite this result.
Plus, they respond to some listener messages and look ahead to the quarter-final first leg against Sporting CP in the Champions League on Tuesday.
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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. |
| 0:16.2 | This is Hand-Break-Off, the Arsenal podcast, brought to you by The Athletic. |
| 0:19.6 | We're talking about Arsenal. |
| 0:22.6 | Two-one defeat to Southampton in the FAIC Cup the weekend and also looking ahead to tomorrow night's |
| 0:27.6 | quarter-final first leg in Lisbon, Champions League baby. To do that, I'm joined by Ardorosha and Adrian |
| 0:33.3 | Clark morning. Good morning. Good morning, morning. Loving the positivity there Stoney. You're starting on a plus. Yeah. Well, I'll get to that. Obviously, it takes a little bit of time to reset, doesn't it? But look, I tell you what, right, did you see the young Arsenal fan crying being consoled by his dad? I mean, we've all been there. You cried at football, Adrian. You cried. You must cried a few times. So you're not really a cry, are you? No. Well, in life, |
| 0:58.2 | mate. dad. I mean, we've all been there. You cried at football, Adrian. You cried. You must have cried a few times. So you're not really a cry, are you? No. In life, maybe sometimes. But, like, |
| 0:59.7 | no, not really about football. Maybe that, maybe I should. I don't know. Yeah, I can't remember. I |
| 1:06.1 | mean, when I've lost big games, I've sort of sat there slumped on the turf, feeling very fed up and |
| 1:12.4 | disappointed. I don't know if it's ever brought me to tears, if I'm perfectly honest. |
| 1:17.4 | Anything I can sort of relate to it is my little boy, Ted, he's a very determined little kid |
| 1:24.1 | and he wants to win everything and he's really really pumped for it and and and |
| 1:28.3 | occasionally as a seven eight year old when he doesn't win he'll cry and i come down quite hard |
| 1:33.6 | on him i've got to be honest as a parent i'm like come on no you don't do that all right it's only a game |
| 1:39.4 | you know you've got to take it on the chin you know you win enough times if you lose you've got to |
| 1:43.8 | learn how to lose and and just take your. So I'm quite hard line on that. Oh, you wouldn't want to go foot with Adrian, would you? Blimey. No, to be fair, when I'm playing football, I'm quite, I don't know, a bad loser, I'd say. Yeah. Yeah. Like, I don't take losing that well when I'm playing. |
| 2:02.9 | But with Arsenal, I mean, I mentioned it last week, |
| 2:06.1 | the only time I remember crying was the Champions League final. |
| 2:09.0 | And I think that kind of sorted me out. |
| 2:11.1 | Like, I don't remember crying after Chelsea in 2007 or Birmingham even in 2011. |
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