Young hearts run free as Dowman lights up FA Cup
Handbrake Off: The Athletic FC's Arsenal show
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4.6 • 734 Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Amy Lawrence and Art de Roché join Ian Stone to discuss Arsenal’s 2-1 win away to Mansfield in the FA Cup on Saturday.
The panel reflect on Max Dowman’s eye catching display and whether he can be a serious option from the bench, Marli Salmon’s confidence despite his mistake, Jaden Dixon making his debut, some players not making the most of their opportunity, Mansfield’s good spirits to make the tie a fun occasion and how Arsenal manage the next block of games up until the international break.
Plus, they look ahead to the match away to Bayer Leverkusen in the Champions League on Wednesday and respond to some listener messages.
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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. |
| 0:14.7 | Hello, I'm Ian Stone. |
| 0:16.0 | This is Handbrake-Off, the Arsenal podcast, brought to you by The Athletic. |
| 0:22.3 | We'll have a little chat about the game against Mansfield Town in the FA Cup on Saturday and look ahead to buy a Levaikuzon in the Champions League |
| 0:28.0 | on Wednesday evening. I'm joined by Amy Lawrence and Art de Roche morning. Hiya. Good morning. Hello, |
| 0:33.6 | hello. Amy, just before we came on here, you were talking about a young guy, Reese Oates, who plays for Mansfield, who's an Arsenal fan. |
| 0:40.7 | I mean, how is it? Could you play against Arsenal, Amy? I mean, obviously, there's a whole lot of logistics involved in all this. |
| 0:47.2 | Yeah, this is quite a stretch for me to kind of take my brain to that place where I might be in the position that Riesot's found himself |
| 0:54.3 | in fairness. But I did think it was a lovely moment, you know, for someone. And in fact, I know |
| 0:59.1 | quite a few young aspiring players who are at academies where they might, you know, have to |
| 1:06.2 | put on a shirt that isn't their favourite or maybe play against the club that they support. |
| 1:13.1 | We used to have lots of conversations in the house about like, you know, in that fantasy |
| 1:17.1 | world, what would you do if Tottenham wanted to sign you, you know, would you go? |
| 1:21.5 | Would you play in that kit? |
| 1:24.2 | Would you? |
| 1:25.8 | What were the answers? |
| 1:27.1 | What were the answers? What were the answers? |
| 1:27.9 | Oh, I thought I'd just love that at you lot. |
| 1:30.9 | Oh, okay. |
| 1:31.7 | I mean, you're still playing. |
| 1:33.8 | Would you play for Spurs? |
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