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Handbrake Off: The Athletic FC's Arsenal show
The Athletic
4.6 • 734 Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Adrian Clarke and Amy Lawrence join Ian Stone to discuss the Champions League final loss to Paris Saint-Germain on penalties on Saturday.
The panel reflect on the joyous images from the trophy parade on Sunday, the atmosphere in Budapest as fans gathered for the game, Arsenal proving they belong on this elite stage, the brilliance of the team's defending, the need to improve in possession, the room for growth in the squad, the togetherness of the players, the penalty shootout, Marquinhos consoling Gabriel at the final whistle and there's praise Lewis-Skelly, Gabriel and others who stood out on the night.
Plus, the panel respond to listener messages and reflect on the season as a whole.
If you like the panel’s song choices, check out the ‘Now that’s what I call Handbrake’ playlist on both Spotify and Apple Music and listen to them all there:
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/playlist/now-thats-what-i-call-handbrake/pl.u-d2b00jZuDxWk6P
Producer: Robby Williams
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FC. |
| 0:07.1 | The only way to score is, of course, to play with a handbreak-off. |
| 0:14.7 | Hello, I'm Ian Stone. This is Hand-break-off, the Arsenal podcast, brought to you by The Athletic. |
| 0:19.6 | Yeah, we're going to talk about the Champions League final, losing on penalties to PSG, and we're going to have a little chat about the season as a whole and that amazing parade yesterday that I don't think any of us went to. Anyway, Amy Lawrence and Adrian Clark are here. Good morning. Morning. Hello. Did we get to it? Amy, I know you didn't. Adrian, do you get to it? I didn't. No. |
| 0:39.4 | No. No, I just, I did. |
| 0:41.5 | I had stuff on. |
| 0:43.8 | But the pictures were amazing. |
| 0:46.3 | I mean, it did look. It was amazing. |
| 0:48.3 | It did look pretty awesome. |
| 0:49.7 | Well, here's a question then, right. |
| 0:51.9 | Obviously, we've all seen various pictures of ben white eating a burger |
| 0:57.3 | that was chucked up to him on the bus or throwing martin herdegaard's apparently 1,200 pound sunglasses |
| 1:05.5 | into yeah that's what it said i mean i know 1200 quid and while i. And while I felt for Martin Herdegard, I thought, |
| 1:11.8 | you can afford another pair of 1,200 pounds sunglasses, and I'm not sure you should be blind them anyway. And what, what do they do? I'd want lasers or something to come out of them for $1,200 quid. But he obviously is Mr. Party Animal. I mean, if, Adrian, if you needed someone to organise a party, right, or to help |
| 1:29.7 | organise a party, you can't have Ben White. Who would be his assistant, right? Who would be the |
| 1:34.6 | assistant? |
| 1:35.6 | I don't know. This is like, this one's landed on me. Yeah, you can't trust Ben White to organise it, I would have thought, based on... |
| 1:46.0 | He'd have ideas, wouldn't he? |
| 1:47.3 | You'd have a lot of ideas, you know? |
| 1:49.7 | But you'd have to go, Ben, I'm not sure that's practical, really. |
| 1:53.9 | Do you think we can get an elephant down Islington Town Hall? |
| 1:56.6 | I'm not sure we can, Ben, to be honest with it. |
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