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Handbrake Off: The Athletic FC's Arsenal show

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🗓️ 2 January 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Ian Stone, Amy Lawrence, and James McNicholas are back for 2022 and their hope-ometers are on the rise.

This week we discuss the fantastic performance against Man City, despite losing there were so many positives to take from the game - especially Partey, Tomiyasu, and Ramsdale's huge passes.

We discuss Amy's interview with Granit Xhaka and whether it might change perceptions of him. And as it's January we discuss what business Arsenal need to do and what they might do.

RUNNING ORDER

PART 1 - Positivity pals (01.00)

PART 2 - Arsenal 1-2 Man City (08.30)

PART 3a - Xhaka interview (31.00)

PART 3b - January deals (45.00)

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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.
0:17.7	Hello, I'm Ian Stone. This is Handbrake of the Arsenal podcast, brought to you by the Athletic Happy New Year.
0:24.3	And notwithstanding yesterday's result, I hope you've enjoyed the last few weeks, having a bit of time off and watching the Arsenal.
0:30.1	I'm joined this morning by Amy Lawrence and James MacNicholas.
0:34.6	Morning.
0:35.4	Happy New Year in?
0:36.6	Happy New Year, guys. Yeah. Well, we'll obviously talk
0:40.9	quite a lot about the momentous game at the Emirates yesterday, Arsenal One Man City, too. But one of the
0:45.3	more pleasing things about what happened was the genuine feeling of positivity. It's a new year.
0:52.0	And so I wondered after some big away wins and a fantastic performance at the Emirates.
0:56.2	Where is everyone on the Hope Ometer?
0:59.3	Well, quite different, I think, after the game against Man City in a way.
1:05.2	I think that having, it's been so long since you've watched an Arsenal team play against one of the
1:13.1	really, really top sides and take it to them in that way and, and exert not just a sort of
1:20.2	desire to express themselves and play well, but really smart organisation. I feel the focus
1:25.7	the way that everybody played. And sometimes when you're
1:28.5	having to face a team whose perceptions are that they would win and that they're better than you
1:33.3	in most metrics, you think, ah, it needs every player to be on their A game. It needs every player
1:42.2	to be giving, you know, 100% plus, if possible. And it felt
1:47.7	like that. And it felt like, I don't know, I just think there was a unity of purpose, of effort,
1:55.2	a collective kind of feeling within that group where they just didn't look remotely fearful. Think about how many
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