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Handbrake Off: The Athletic FC's Arsenal show

The Athletic

Soccer, Football, Sports

4.6 • 650 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Adrian Clarke and French football specialist Tom Williams join Ian Stone to preview Arsenal's Champions League semi-final against PSG.

Arsenal ran out convincing winners when these teams met back in October, but the French side have evolved drastically since that night. The panel discuss how both teams have changed, where each will look to hurt each other, and predict the XI's Mikel Arteta and Luis Enrique will go for.

Plus Art de Roché drops by to talk about Arsenal's sensational comeback in the Women's Champions League, winning 4-1 in Lyon to book a place in the final.

Produced by Jay Beale.

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0:00.0	The Athletic FC Podcast Network.
0:07.0	The only way to score is, of course, to play with a handbreak off.
0:14.7	Hello, I'm Ian Stone. This is Handbrake of the Arsenal podcast, brought to you by The Athletic.
0:20.1	Today, we're talking about Tuesday night as Arsenal welcome PSG in the first leg of our Champions League.
0:26.4	Send me final to preview the game.
0:28.4	I'm joined by Adrian Clark and a special guest, a football journalist and French football specialist Tom Williams.
0:34.7	Morning.
0:35.6	Morning, chaps.
0:36.7	Morning, everybody.
0:40.0	Morning. Who's this stranger in the room, Stoney? It's Tom. Tom. Tom knows about French football and is a special guest football journalist. Hello, Tom. Thanks for
0:45.0	joining us. Hi, it. My pleasure to be here. Just so you all know, I'm almost within a stone's throw of the
0:51.4	Emirates Stadium. Really? As we record, record because i'm a finsbury park resident so despite
0:56.5	not being a gooner i'm at least you know i'm gooner adjacent let's let's put it like that i come in peace
1:03.3	i can confirm this don't because i have actually seen tom yeah on a jog around the outside of Emirates Stadium.
1:11.5	I've seen him, seen him there.
1:13.6	Right.
1:13.9	So, yeah, he's definitely local.
1:16.0	He might live miles away and just jog a long way.
1:18.0	This is true.
1:19.0	Have you thought that?
1:19.9	Okay, anyway.
1:21.1	This is true.
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