The 'unflusterable' Benjamin White
Handbrake Off: The Athletic FC's Arsenal show
The Athletic
4.6 • 734 Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
With Premier League football returning this weekend, James McNicholas and Art de Roché join Ian Stone to preview Arsenal’s visit to Stamford Bridge.
Now the dust has settled, the panel reflect on the Manchester City game, as well as Arsenal’s injury time comeback in the WSL, which saw Beth Mead return after 11 months.
Plus, we give Ben White his flowers, with rumours he's close to agreeing a new deal at the club.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic. |
| 0:09.6 | The only way to score is, of course, to play with a handbreak-off. |
| 0:18.5 | Hello, I'm Ian Stone. |
| 0:20.1 | This is Handbreak-off, the Arsenal podcast, brought to you by the Athletic Premier League football returns this weekend. Thank God, thank God. I think we've got another month before the next international break. Let's enjoy a bit of proper football for a while. Arsenal head to Stanford Bridge Saturday afternoon to talk about that and other Arsenal-related stuff. |
| 0:40.9 | I'm joined by Art de Roche and James McNicholas. |
| 0:44.1 | Morning. |
| 0:44.8 | Hello, Ian. |
| 0:45.4 | Good morning. |
| 0:46.3 | Morning. |
| 0:47.1 | Before we talk about all the Arsenal news and a team of what have you, |
| 0:52.1 | Mahmard El Neni, very emotional interview. |
| 0:55.0 | Talked about how emotionally was when Arsenal gave him a contract the day after he got |
| 0:59.7 | an injury that ended his season. |
| 1:01.6 | It was a very nice thing that they did. |
| 1:03.7 | But he also talked about the fact that he's launched his new football team, Mohamed El Nanny |
| 1:07.3 | FC, or El Nanny FC. |
| 1:08.9 | We dreams of one day playing in the Premier League. |
| 1:10.9 | He said, of course, it could take 15 years, 20 years, but we have the target where we want to be. |
| 1:15.3 | I love to dream. |
| 1:16.3 | What am I going to lose? |
| 1:17.3 | I'm going to work every day about this. |
| 1:19.6 | So we thought, we'd ask our panellists, what you would call your team and what your dreams are as well. I mean, the thing is you can do this on football manager or FIFA, whatever it's called now. |
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