The Fab Four, Gabi’s snuggly blanket, and memories of Madrid magic

Handbrake Off: The Athletic FC's Arsenal show

The Athletic

Soccer, Football, Sports

4.6 • 650 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Join Ian Stone, Amy Lawrence, and Adrian Clarke for a look back on Arsenal's win over Brentford from the weekend.

This week we crown the Fab Four, we discuss our captaincy choices, and we look at a shift in system. All that plus a trip down memory lane to the Bernabeu when Arsenal became the first english side to beat Real Madrid in their own backyard.

RUNNING ORDER

PART 1 - The new Fab Four (01.00)

PART 2 - Arsenal 2-1 Brentford (06.00)

PART 3 - Real Madrid 0-1 Arsenal (31.30)

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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.
0:18.3	Hello, I'm Ian Stone, and this is Handbreak-off, the Arsenal podcast brought to you by The Athletic.
0:24.9	We'll be talking about the hard fought but ultimately successful win over Brentford and some of the tactical tweaks that helped it happen.
0:31.5	We'll also be talking about the young kids leading the charge to get us back into Europe and we'll be marking the anniversary of one of the greatest wins in the club's history.
0:39.7	To do that, we're going to need some guests with some expert insight, and we've got two of them, Amy Lawrence and Adrian Clark.
0:46.7	Good morning.
0:47.8	Good morning.
0:48.9	Morning. I was going to make some, I almost did a little joke there you know we're going to need some guests with some insight but all we could get I was going to do that but I thought you know what there's
0:57.7	no need for that we're not messing people about you come on go on give us the joke we can
1:01.4	no no that was the joke I was going to get some guests with some tactical insight but I couldn't
1:05.2	find any so here's Amy Lawrence and Adrian Clark much better right, we'll cut that first bit out.
1:12.0	Anyway, Amy, you wrote a piece entitled Arsenal's Fab Four on the website,
1:20.1	who we're talking about, Martin Olegard, Bacayasaka, Mille, Mills Smith, Row and Gabby Martinelli.
1:27.5	We got Wolves on Thursday, assuming they're all fit, we thought it was an opening question.
1:34.6	Who are you not picking out of the four?
1:37.9	Amy, I'll start with you.
1:39.8	And by the way, the answer is not.
1:42.2	We're having all four of them and Lacazette is on the bench, all right?
1:45.3	We're not doing that.
1:47.5	Ah, shucks.
1:51.2	But do you know what?
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