{"podcast":{"title":"Handbrake Off: The Athletic FC's Arsenal show","slug":"handbrake-off-the-athletic-fc-s-arsenal-show-21798","podcast_index_feed_id":21798,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/681887451d28d623139a0fc9","website_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/podcasts/","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/681887451d28d623139a0fc9/show-cover.jpg","author":"The Athletic","episode_count":466,"summary":"The Athletic's Amy Lawrence, Adrian Clarke, James McNicholas (Gunnerblog), Art de Roche and comedian Ian Stone bring you a twice-weekly podcast dedicated to Arsenal Football Club. They'll bring you reaction to all the games, expert insight into the inner-workings of the club, including transfers and contracts, and analysis on the women's team too. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-14T02:17:11.176097+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/handbrake-off-the-athletic-fc-s-arsenal-show-21798"},"episode":{"title":"Now’s the time for a siege mentality","slug":"now-s-the-time-for-a-siege-mentality","published_at":"2026-04-13T05:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/handbrake-off-the-athletic-fc-s-arsenal-show-21798/now-s-the-time-for-a-siege-mentality","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/handbrake-off-the-athletic-fc-s-arsenal-show-21798","url":"https://shows.acast.com/handbrake-off-the-athletic-fcs-arsenal-show/episodes/nows-the-time-for-a-siege-mentality","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/681887451d28d623139a0fc9/e/69dc4feaaf4db69e0dd100e0/media.mp3","summary":"Amy Lawrence and Adrian Clarke join Ian Stone to discuss Arsenal’s 2-1 loss at home to Bournemouth on Saturday. The panel reflect on the disappointing overall performance, the lack of energy, if this result had been coming, the problems in the attack, tactical changes that could be made going forward, the need to be less risk averse and calling for a siege mentality amid the noise around the club. Plus, they look ahead to Sporting CP in the quarter final second leg of the Champions League on Wednesday and respond to some listener messages. 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:  Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6cgJk1eJwQBmiUJlSFZMJN?si=pMHHbBb8S8Ky5LtlKp7pHw&pi=Rra8NSxDRVm58&nd=1&dlsi=62f2d7c1c10045ac Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/playlist/now-thats-what-i-call-handbrake/pl.u-d2b00jZuDxWk6P Producer: Robby Williams Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","meta_description":"Amy Lawrence and Adrian Clarke join Ian Stone to discuss Arsenal’s 2-1 loss at home to Bournemouth on Saturday. The panel reflect on the disappointing ove…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2799,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/handbrake-off-the-athletic-fc-s-arsenal-show-21798/episodes/now-s-the-time-for-a-siege-mentality/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/handbrake-off-the-athletic-fc-s-arsenal-show-21798/now-s-the-time-for-a-siege-mentality.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}