West Ham away at a pivotal moment, here we go again
Handbrake Off: The Athletic FC's Arsenal show
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🗓️ 8 February 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
James McNicholas and Art de Roché join Ian Stone to preview Arsenal's clash with West Ham.
It was this fixture last season that the Gunners threw away a two goal lead, Sunday will be a test of how far they've come since then.
The Hammers have got the better of Arsenal twice already this season, can Declan Rice enact revenge in his old stomping ground?
Plus, Takehiro Tomiyasu returns from the Asia Cup, and Jurrien Timber is added to the Champions League squad.
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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. |
| 0:16.6 | Hello, I'm Ian Stone. |
| 0:18.2 | This is Handbrake of the Arsenal podcast brought to you by The Athletic. |
| 0:23.5 | It's Thursday. We're going to look ahead to West Ham on Sunday. I'm joined by James McNicholas and Art de Roche. Morning. |
| 0:30.5 | Morning, Ian. |
| 0:31.5 | Morning. Before we start, right, we had a little chat on Monday about the celebration police. |
| 0:38.4 | James, I know you've got quite strong views about this and we'll get to them. |
| 0:43.7 | Oh, anything to add to the celebration police chat we had the other day? |
| 0:49.6 | I mean, the general vibe, just if you didn't hear it, was just leave us alone. |
| 0:55.4 | Life is shit enough, right, without you stopping us celebrating when we win football matches, particularly big football matches. |
| 1:03.7 | That was the generally held view. |
| 1:05.7 | Anything to add to that? |
| 1:07.0 | Not too much other than the fact that this has actually been going on for a couple years now. It's getting a bit boring. |
| 1:13.5 | But is it us? Is it us that they're going on about? Because I saw a little montage of Roberto Deserbie running on the pitch and celebrating with the Brighton fans. And obviously we've seen Juergen Klopp doing it. We've seen Marino knee sliding down a touch line years ago. |
| 1:30.6 | It just feels like we're getting it a bit more. |
| 1:33.2 | Yeah, it does feel that way. But being totally honest, I'm starting to tune out of that whole |
| 1:35.3 | discussion anyway. |
| 1:38.2 | So, yeah, I'm not too concerned |
| 1:41.2 | about it anymore just because I don't think it |
| 1:43.3 | matters that much. |
| 1:45.2 | I, do you know what? |
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