Why Arsenal need Eze’s individualism
Handbrake Off: The Athletic FC's Arsenal show
The Athletic
4.6 • 734 Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Amy Lawrence and Adrian Clarke join Ian Stone to discuss Arsenal’s 1-0 win at home to Newcastle on Saturday.
The panel reflect on the anxiety of the game, another cautious performance, Havertz’s importance to how the team play underlined by his injury, the difficulties of getting the right balance in attack this season, an honest conversation about Gyokeres, Eze’s importance in delivering big moments and trying to make sense of the persistent injury problems at the club.
Plus, they respond to listener messages, congratulate Arsenal Women on their victory in the UWCL semi-final first leg and look ahead to a crucial ten days starting with the semi-final first leg against Atletico Madrid in the Champions League on Wednesday.
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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, |
| 0:16.8 | the Arsenal podcast, brought to you by The Athletic. |
| 0:20.1 | We're going to be talking about Arsenal's |
| 0:22.1 | breezy one-neal win against Newcastle on Saturday. And we're going to look ahead to a pretty big |
| 0:28.5 | week for the Arsenal, starting in Madrid on Wednesday night in the Champions League. I'm joined by |
| 0:33.9 | Amy Lawrence and Adrian Clark. Good morning. Hello. Hi, yeah. Good morning. |
| 0:57.8 | Saw you both at the weekend at the game. We had a little photo taken that Amy's going to put out later on of the three of us, looking very relaxed after the game. It was fun. It's a fun afternoon, wasn't it? It was, well, we'll get to it. Well, we'll get to it. Did both of you see Anne Hathaway on the red carpet for Devil Wears Prada 2 with an Arsenal shirt, |
| 1:02.4 | draped sort of alluringly, I would say, across her shoulder? |
| 1:07.1 | I mean, football gear is it right for the red carpet? |
| 1:29.0 | Have you got, do you want something sort of a little bit small, like a little badge? What are you having, Amy, on the red carpet if you're wearing an arsenal, some arsenal related, you know, gear? I'm not sure I'd quite pull off the draped over the shoulder kit look, but, you know, she managed it effortlessly. You can't do the doe-eyed sort of Anne Hathaway sort of vibe? |
| 1:31.5 | No, no, you know what I'm saying it, and I know you can't. |
| 1:32.8 | What would you wear? |
| 1:34.2 | What would you have on you? |
| 1:40.1 | I don't know, a little cannon-eering or something. |
| 1:43.0 | Yeah, something a little, you know, subtle. |
| 1:45.1 | Yeah, subtle. But I like the fact that. Just subtle, subtle. Yes, subtle. |
| 1:47.3 | But I like the fact that she didn't go subtle. |
| 1:49.0 | Adrian, you'd be full kit, wanker. |
| 1:53.0 | Full kit, mate. |
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