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Handbrake Off: The Athletic FC's Arsenal show
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4.6 • 734 Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
James McNicholas and Adrian Clarke join Ian Stone to look ahead to the match against Burnley on Monday.
The panel discuss Ben White’s injury, whether Jurrien Timber will make be fit in time for Champions League final, anticipation for the final home game of the season, the potential difficulties Burnley may pose and the title race going into the final week of the season.
Plus, they respond to listener messages, pay tribute to Beth Mead as she played her final game at Emirates Stadium for Arsenal Women and we hear from Michael in San Francisco in this week’s instalment of ‘Up Your Arsenal’.
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
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FC |
| 0:03.3 | The only way to score is of course to play |
| 0:10.0 | with a handbreak-off. |
| 0:14.6 | Hello, I'm Ian Stone. This is Handbrake-Off, |
| 0:16.6 | the Arsenal podcast brought to by The Athletic. |
| 0:19.7 | We're going to look ahead to the game against Burnley on Monday night. |
| 0:23.1 | Answer some of your questions that you've sent into us and a few other bits and pieces. |
| 0:27.6 | I'm joined by James McNicholas and Adrian Clark. |
| 0:29.7 | Good morning. |
| 0:30.4 | Morning. |
| 0:30.9 | Morning, guys. |
| 0:31.8 | Morning. |
| 0:32.4 | We come down yet from West Ham? |
| 0:34.4 | It took me an hour or two to my heartbeat to lower. I had the same, but my heart was racing after that. Yeah. I don't have an Apple watch, but if I did, I'd have been interested in what was going on, to be honest with it. It's funny, right? I have seen a few clips. I haven't watched as much as I thought I would. |
| 0:54.5 | I was just relieved to get it out the way and I just thought I'd think about something else for a few days. |
| 0:59.0 | But there was a video of two guys in a restaurant, right, Muslim guys, and they're watching, they're watching the VAR. |
| 1:07.0 | And when Chris Kavanaugh says, the foul by the West End Defenders, |
| 1:11.0 | they're both going to prayer mode, right? |
| 1:14.1 | So, and I mean, personally, I think the prayer should come before the VAR decision, is my feeling. |
| 1:20.5 | But do you know what? If it works, it works. |
| 1:23.7 | If either of you turn to religion in a moment, I mean, I'm not a religious person. |
| 1:27.4 | I don't know if either of you are, to be honest. Do you, James, have you ever prayed to a higher power for a winning goal or a VAR? Not yet, not yet. And we've still got a few weeks in the season now. Exactly. There's still time. I did notice Pep dropped in Shala in his press conference the other day. |
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