{"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":"The horseshoe of doom","slug":"the-horseshoe-of-doom","published_at":"2026-03-12T15:14:49+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/handbrake-off-the-athletic-fc-s-arsenal-show-21798/the-horseshoe-of-doom","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/the-horseshoe-of-doom","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/681887451d28d623139a0fc9/e/69b2d869bffd975a45bd0ba0/media.mp3","summary":"Amy Lawrence and Adrian Clarke join Ian Stone to discuss Arsenal’s 1-1 draw away to Leverkusen in the Champions League on Wednesday. The panel reflect on the players potentially being inhibited to improvise, concerns that the attack hasn’t clicked as yet, the fatigue of English teams in general, not moving the ball quick enough, some players looking jaded, getting 'Arsenaled’ by conceding to a set piece, Saka having an off night and what the other results of this round might mean for for Arsenal going forward.  Plus, they look ahead to the match against Everton at the Emirates on Saturday, respond to some listener messages and we hear from John in Penzance, Cornwall 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:  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 1-1 draw away to Leverkusen in the Champions League on Wednesday. The panel reflect on…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2458,"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/the-horseshoe-of-doom/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/the-horseshoe-of-doom.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}