Were Arsenal brave enough against Liverpool?
Handbrake Off: The Athletic FC's Arsenal show
The Athletic
4.6 • 734 Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Adrian Clarke and Art de Roché join Ian Stone to discuss Arsenal’s 0-0 draw at home to Liverpool on Thursday night.
The panel reflect on whether Arsenal lacked bravery in a disappointing performance, losing control in midfield in the second half, Gyokeres’ ineffective showing, the atmosphere in the ground, the lack of urgency to win the game, the Martinelli incident during stoppage time and the media response to it.
Plus, they look ahead to Arsenal’s match against Portsmouth in the FA Cup on Sunday, we hear from Stephen in Belfast for another instalment of ‘Up Your Arsenal’ and David Ornstein gives us the details on Bukayo Saka’s new 5 year contract.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FC |
| 0:03.3 | The only way to score is of course to play with a handbreak-off. |
| 0:14.8 | Hello I'm Ian Stone. |
| 0:16.0 | This is Handbrake-Off, the Arsenal podcast brought to you by The Athletic. |
| 0:19.8 | We'll be looking back on Arsenal's |
| 0:22.1 | nought-nought-nought drab draw with Liverpool last night and look ahead to Portsmouth in the |
| 0:26.5 | FA Cup on Sunday. To do that, I'm joined by Adrian Clark and Art de Roche. Good morning. Good morning. |
| 0:31.5 | Morning. Hello. Hello. I'm interrupting this podcast to bring you news from the future. |
| 0:40.0 | This is about five hours after we finished recording the podcast. |
| 0:43.5 | When we saw the news, the absolutely splendid and outstanding news, |
| 0:48.0 | that Bukai Asaka has agreed a new and improved five-year contract at the Arsenal. |
| 0:53.1 | Here's David Ornstein with the details. |
| 0:56.4 | Well, for many years, Arsenal were infamous for struggling to renew the contracts of their |
| 1:00.9 | most important players. But in more recent times, that has changed, with one after the next |
| 1:06.5 | committing their futures to the Emirates Stadium. Somebody who has always done that is Bukaiosaka. |
| 1:12.6 | But his current terms were due to expire in the summer of 2027. So you could say it's into |
| 1:20.0 | squeaky bum time with 18 months to go. However, he has been in talks with the club over |
| 1:26.4 | fresh terms, |
| 1:27.6 | and those talks were always expected to reach a positive conclusion |
| 1:32.0 | because Saka has only ever wanted to be at Arsenal. |
| 1:36.1 | And on the Athletic, we revealed exclusively that an agreement has now been reached |
| 1:41.3 | for Saka to sign a new and improved contract until the summer of |
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