They didn't think like squirrels

Handbrake Off: The Athletic FC's Arsenal show

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🗓️ 18 April 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Join Ian Stone, Art De Roche and James McNicholas for a look back at Arsenal men's defeat to Southampton and Arsenal women's defeat to Chelsea in the FA Cup - it wasn't a good weekend.

This week: is the issue attack or midfield? James and Art differ? How much blame should be portioned to Mikel Arteta? And what's worse the Europa Conference League or no Europe at all?

All that plus an in depth look at what went wrong for both senior clubs at the weekend and further reflections on Unai Emery.

RUNNING ORDER

PART 1 - Conference League or no Europe?: 01:00

PART 2a - Southampton Men 1-0 Arsenal Men: 05:00

PART 2b - Unai Emery - wrong manager at the wrong time?: 21.00

PART 3a - Arsenal Women 0-2 Chelsea Women: 30.00

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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.
0:18.3	Hello, I'm Ian Stone. This is Handbrake of the Arsenal podcast, brought to you by The Athletic.
0:24.7	Now, the last few weeks have been rather deflating when it comes to the Arsenal, but as I look at my window, it's a beautiful Easter Monday morning.
0:31.4	We'll try and find some rays of sunshine for you people.
0:34.7	Now, as we're talking about the 1-ill defeat for the men's team at Stanton
0:37.8	and the two-neill cup semi-final defeat for the women against Chelsea. I'm not sure where
0:41.7	they'll come from but it is what it is. I'm joined by Art de Roche and James McNicholas. Morning.
0:49.7	Morning, Ian. How you doing? Morning. Morning. We were trying to think of an Easter
0:53.5	themed opening question, you know,
0:55.0	something to do with eggs or bunnies and bouncing back or perhaps some sort of resurrection type idea for the Arsenal.
1:02.3	But frankly, it's proved beyond our capabilities.
1:05.0	As we're in this position with the men's team,
1:07.4	would you prefer the Europa Conference League or no Europe at all?
1:12.6	Ah, you, when you heard what this question was, you did sort of grimace in a way, so I'm going to come to you first.
1:19.6	I was hoping he wouldn't come to me first.
1:21.6	Oh well, here you go.
1:22.6	I don't know, I are. Those are two terrible options.
1:26.6	They are.
1:36.1	And, oh, I don't, I, I, I, I, I, I just can't, I just can't see positives from another season without Europe.
1:37.2	So I'll have to say conference league, but.
1:39.3	You're saying a Europa Conference League, okay.
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