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two firm favourites in the Arsenal manager’s own lexicon: the adverb footballistically (‘footballistically, he’s ready for the first team’), and the adjective handbrakeish (‘I felt we were a little handbrakish today’).
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Anything over this (especially early in a race) can quickly burn through vital sugar stores and (according to the psychobiological model of fatigue) provide ‘scary’ feedback to the brain about your current effort, saying it’s not sustainable and you need to ‘pull the hand-brake’ or stop.