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By Andrew Crawshaw The start of the WSL season, like all other sports events, was disrupted last weekend by the death of our late Queen. As far as I am aware, Arsenal was the only team invited to Buckingham Palace for tea by the Queen and it was rumoured that she always took …
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By Tony Attwood We’ve not been able to cover this season of the women’s game in the way that we have done in the past, and indeed there have been times when we’ve wondered if the WSL wasn’t teetering on the brink as we’ve not been the only ones who have had trouble getting information. …
by Andrew Crawshaw Week 4 saw the following games Tottenham H v Manchester United Chelsea v Manchester City Reading v Birmingham City Bristol City v Aston Villa Everton v West Ham United Brighton and Hove v Arsenal The Saturday game saw Tottenham take on Manchester United, who if they won would go to the top …
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By Christophe.Jost Why is there still no football on TV on saturday afternoons? How Arsenal made themselves the least carded club in the League Since it was launched, the European Super League has taken a lot of bad rap. Or rather has been brutally attacked by all football authorities and the media acting as …
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By Bulldog Drummond I guess most of us thought we would thankfully never have to watch anti-football again once Wimbledon were relegated from the Premiership in 2000. But here it was, in all its horrors. The return of anti-football, and in of all places the Women’s Super League. Those with memories of football in the …
Read More “Behold: Arsenal meet the Wimbledon of the Women’s game in 1-1 draw”
by Andrew Crawshaw Our Women flew to Denmark yesterday prior to the third of their six Champions League games. They play the Danish Champions Köge both this Wednesday and also at Borehamwood next Wednesday, 17 November. Köge is a small town about 45 minutes south of Copenhagen and their team became the Danish Champions for …
Read More “Arsenal Women v HB Köge – Champions League preview; it’s live on Arsenal.com”
by Andrew Crawshaw The matches within the four groups that form the last 16 of the Women’s Champions League commence this week The clubs involved are:- Group A Group B Group C Group D Chelsea Breidablik Kopavogur Arsenal Bayern Munich Juventus PSG FC Barselona BK Häcken FF Servette FC Chēnois Real Madrid HB Køge Olympic …
Read More “TONIGHT: Arsenal Women in the Champions League. Group Stage preview”
By Tony Attwood The top two divisions in Spanish football, which together are known as “La Liga” have sold 10% of themselves to the private equity and credit company CVC Capital Partners. The arrangement means that “La Liga” will get €2.7bn (which is currently about £2.3bn) and this is thought to be the first time …
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The Arsenal History Society is now publishing a video of an Arsenal match for this day in history, each day. To access the current video, or ones from earlier days please click here. _________________________________________________________________________ By Andrew Crawshaw The WSL starts this Weekend, a week before the Men’s PL. This season, as last year, there are 12 …
By Tony Attwood Vivianne Miedema scored six and provided four assists (itself an all time league record) as Arsenal beat Bristol City 11-1 this past weekend – having been 9-0 up within the hour. It was the biggest victory in the Women’s Super League’s history. The previous record score was recorded by Liverpool – currently …
Arsenal Women’s Nobbs wins October Women’s PFA Bristol Street Motors Fans’ Player of the Month Award Arsenal Women FC’s Jordan Nobbs has been voted the October Women’s PFA Bristol Street Motors Fans’ Player of the Month by football fans across the country. In a tightly-contested vote, run by fan engagement experts Snack Media, the England …
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A review of the women’s league season, by Andrew Crawshaw A season with some success but more a season of ‘might have beens’. The final week of the season saw two games with wins over Sunderland 2 – 0 and Bristol by 6 – 1. Unfortunately Manchester City also won their final two games and we …
Read More “Arsenal Women – Part one of our season end appraisal: the League”
At the end of this season, it finishes. It is all over. No more. I speak of course of the FA Tesco Women’s Premier League of 12 clubs. The winner of the league will be the final winner, because that’s it. What happens between May 2010 and March 2011 I am not sure – there …
Read More “The manager’s resigned, the league is ending. Where next for Arsenal?”
What every football club (and most certainly Arsenal) is aiming for. The apparent decline of Tottenham and the question of care for players elsewhere By Tony Attwood Today’s game in the FA Women’s super league, once again sees Arsenal stadium sold out – the last home match for Arsenal’s women’s team created the …
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By Tony Attwood I’m sorry to say I don’t have a preview of the match at the moment to publish, but Arsenal Ladies are playing Manchester United today at 5.30pm at Arsenal Stadium. It is on Sky TV. Apparently, 10,000 tickets have been sold so far for the game, although Arsenal’s website says, “Over …
By Tony Attwood It’s a bit of a treat on TV at the moment. Last night we had on Arsenal TV a wonderful victory over Chelsea in the under 23 league, leaving the table looking like this Team P W D L F A GD PTS 1 Manchester City U23 18 11 3 4 43 …
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By Tony Attwood If you are a regular reader you will know that whereas when crowds were present, the home teams in the Premier League were likely to win games more often than the away team. Since games have been played without crowds present the reverse has been true. The explanation for this (as I’ve …
Read More “Are football journalists biased, lazy or just ignorant?”
By Tony Attwood If you are a regular reader you will know that whereas when crowds were present, the home teams in the Premier League were likely to win games more often than the away team. Since games have been played without crowds present the reverse has been true. The explanation for this (as I’ve …
by Bulldog Drummond The new season of the Women’s Super League opens today with champions Arsenal playing West Ham. The game is live on BT Sport. Last season’s table was a joy to behold not just because we were at the top with a seven point margin over the megamoney Man City, but also because …
by Andrew Crawshaw This match was played on Thursday evening 7 February at Borehamwood against newly formed Championship side Manchester United. Whilst a newly formed team, Manchester United are genuinely of WSL quality, although they play in the second tier of the women’s game it is only a matter of when they will gain promotion …
Read More “Continental Tyres Cup semi-final – the match report”
by Andrew Crawshaw Arsenal played their second WSL League match of the season on Wednesday Evening against Yeovil Town at Dorchester Town FC in front of a decent crowd of 1101. Our trip to Yeovil last season was frustrating with the Yeovil keeper in outstanding form to deny our strikers again and again… and again. …
Read More “A review of Yeovil v Arsenal Women and preview of Arsenal v West Ham on Sunday”
by Andrew Crawshaw The Continental Tyres Cup is the Women’s equivalent of the League Cup. It is a competition that has seen a change in makeup this season moving from a straight knockout to four mini-leagues with the top two in each moving to a knockout phase. The teams in the top two tiers of …
by Andrew Crawshaw Arsenal Ladies were due to commence their Spring Series on Sunday afternoon with a game against Notts County Ladies. This game was cancelled due to Notts County Ladies being disbanded. The announcement was made late on the Friday before the game. The Official Statement from the owner of Notts County Ladies included …
Arsenal Ladies v Notts County Ladies Continental Tyres Cup Final Sunday 01 November 2015 The Match Report by Andrew Crawshaw The Continental Tyres Cup has been in existence for five years and is essentially the replacement for the Ladies League Cup. The competition is in two phases, the first being a group phase comprising all …
Jordan Nobbs scored two as Arsenal Ladies beat Notts County Ladies 3-0 to win their fourth Continental Cup title in five years. Notts County Laura Bassett was sent off before half time, but Arsenal were already in the lead by then. It was the first Arsenal ladies trophy for Pedro Martinez Losa. Arsenal Ladies have now …
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