Show the fire not the fear
4/16/202656 min
Amy Lawrence and Art de Roché join Ian Stone to discuss Arsenal’s 0-0 draw at home to Sporting CP in the quarter-final second leg on Wednesday, which saw Arsenal through to the semi-finals.
The panel reflect on the historic achievement of consecutive Champions League semi-finals for the first time in the club’s history, the need to cut through the negative discourse surrounding Arsenal, imploring fans to ignore outside noise, looking at the context surrounding Arsenal’s current circumstances and there’s praise for Zubimendi, Hincapie & Martinelli for their performances.
Plus, they look ahead to Manchester City on Sunday, respond to some listener messages, and we hear from Jack in Canada in this week’s instalment of ‘Up Your Arsenal’.
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 0· Soundbite0:00
[gentle music] The Athletic FC.
Amy Lawrence· Panelist0:03
[upbeat music] The only way to score is, of course, to play, uh, with a handbrake off.
Ian Stone· Host0:12
Hello, I'm Ian Stoney. This is Handbrake Off, the Arsenal podcast, brought to you by The Athletic. We're gonna be talking about last night's [laughs] barnstorming nil-nil draw at home to Sporting CP in the Champions League to see us qualify for the semifinals for the second year running. To do that, I'm joined by Art de Roche and Amy Lawrence. Morning.
Amy Lawrence· Panelist0:38
Hiya.
Art de Roché· Panelist0:38
Good morning.
Ian Stone· Host0:39
Morning. Art, you're in the right seat.
Art de Roché· Panelist0:41
[laughs] [laughs] Indeed. There's only one seat in my bedroom, so.
Ian Stone· Host0:46
[laughs] There's only one seat, yeah. Yeah, you can't, you can't really... If you don't understand that, well, why aren't you spending all day watching Arsenal memes, hmm? [laughs] Yeah, Mikel Arteta told our Art de Roche, sitting there now, to move to another seat, but it, it was taken, right? It was taken in the press conference. Someone had your seat.
Art de Roché· Panelist1:04
Yeah, basically, um, I mean, I usually sit to his right, because for people who don't know, the Arsenal press officer sits to Mikel's right. So I find it easier to catch the press officer's eye to get a question- Oh, nice ... when I'm sitting there. It's very, it's... I don't know if anyone else does that, but that's how my mind works. So I usually sit there, but yeah, someone was in the seat that