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Handbrake Off: The Athletic FC's Arsenal show

The Athletic

Soccer, Football, Sports

4.6 • 650 Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

The opening week of the season could have gone, well, a lot better. But misery loves company so Ian Stone, Art de Roché and James McNicholas are here to provide that for you.

This week, which defender has the turning circle of a ship in a harbour? Who's just staring into nothingness? And why was Torreira at a theme park?

RUNNING ORDER

PART 1 - Oblivion (01.30)

PART 2 - Brentford 2-0 Arsenal (05.00)

PART 3 - Transfers (26.00)

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0:00.0	The Athletic
0:02.0	The only way to score is of course to play with a handbreak-off.
0:14.0	Hello and welcome to the Athletics Arsenal podcast Handbreak Off.
0:22.0	Although after Friday's match, it's a little bit of handbrake on, isn't it?
0:25.4	In fact, it's Handbrake on Car won't start.
0:27.4	You're holding everyone up at the traffic lights and you might have to get the timing belt change,
0:30.8	which as we know is an expensive business.
0:33.5	I'm Ian Stone and this week I'm joined by Art de Roche and James McNicholas.
0:38.3	Good morning, chaps.
0:40.3	Morning, Ian.
0:41.2	Morning, Ian.
0:42.1	Morning, Ian.
0:43.0	Morning, uh, morning.
0:44.2	Let's not ask how we are.
0:45.5	We'll get to that in a very short while.
0:48.5	I should, uh, listener, give you a reminder that before we get going,
0:52.7	uh, you can get yourself an athletic subscription for a third off the full price by heading to the athletic.com forward slash arsenal pod. That's the athletic.com forward slash arsenal pod.
1:06.6	I wanted to ask an opening question. Lucas Terreira was spotted at a theme park at the weekend, although I'm not quite sure if he's tall enough to get on some of the rides.
1:17.6	But the team were laboring away against Brentford at the same time, so we were wondering what roller coaster ride would you require Arsenal to right now after League 1?
1:26.6	James, is it a roller coaster ride?
1:29.2	I mean, so far it's only been down, right? Yeah. In 1998, my family went for a day out to
1:36.0	Alton Towers and there was a brand new open ride there called Oblivion. And basically the whole ride, I don't know if anyone's been on it, but you basically, it's one drop is the whole ride i don't know if anyone's been on it but you basically
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