Untold Arsenal: Supporting the club, the manager and the team
"I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art." A Wenger
by Andrew Crawshaw Group A Austria 1 v Norway 0 – Manuella Zinsberger in the Austrian goal with another clean sheet. So far the only goal she has let in was the beautiful lob from her Arsenal teammate Beth Mead in the opening game. The only goal of this game coming towards the end of …
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The two mountains Arsenal have to climb by Andrew Crawshaw The Women’s European Championship gets underway this evening at a sold out Old Trafford with England playing Austria. All matches in the competition are being screened by the BBC with tonight’s coverage of the opening ceremony and match beginning at 7pm on BBC1. The studio …
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Arsenal Women 2021-22 Season review – Part 1 Arsenal Women 2021-22 Season Review: Part 2 WSL Match by Match highs and lows Arsenal Women 2021/2 Review, Part 3 – 21 Players to keep; 9 players to let go by Andrew Crawshaw In my Player reviews, I identified four contenders for Player of the Season, Leah …
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by Andrew Crawshaw Arsenal Women 2021-22 Season review – Part 1 Arsenal Women 2021-22 Season Review: Part 2 WSL Match by Match highs and lows No Plays Comments Apps Goals All games Keep or Pass 1 GK Manuella Zinsberger Undisputed No 1 goalkeeper, has performed excellently 13 clean sheets in the WSL 33 K 18 …
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Arsenal Women 2021-22 Season review – Part 1 by Andrew Crawshaw In this article, I have used red to show the matches I consider to be season highlights and blue for the lows. Our League Season started with a daunting series of games with home ties against Chelsea and Manchester City in the first three …
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by Andrew Crawshaw First here is a brief summary of the 2020/21 season to give us a baseline against which to measure our 2021/22 season The 2020-21 season finished with Arsenal in third place, one point better than Manchester United who were fourth and nine points behind Chelsea who were champions Club P W …
by Andrew Crawshaw With only one week left in the season nothing is yet decided at the top of the table. The champions will either be Chelsea or Arsenal and the final Champions League place will be either Manchester City or United. Birmingham City are odds on to be relegated but it is not yet …
by Andrew Crawshaw Arsenal resume their quest for European glory this evening with a game against the German league leaders Wolfsburg, at the Emirates with a 20:00 kickoff. I understand that the match is moved to the Emirates due to the requirement for VAR to be in place and this not being achievable at the …
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by Andrew Crawshaw Arsenal Women v Birmingham Match Highlights On Sunday Lunchtime Arsenal Women played the reverse fixture against the only team to have beaten them this season. No not Chelsea or Man City who were busy elsewhere but bottom of the table Birmingham. The early 12:00 kickoff was in order to show the match …
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by Andrew Crawshaw Unlike February when we only played 3 matches, March has a far busier schedule seeing us play in three competitions, the WSL, the 2022 FA Cup and the 2022 Champions League where we are the sole remaining English club. I have added a column to indicate where we are playing our home …
By Andrew Crawshaw February was something of a transitional month for Arsenal Women. New players bedding in, those away at the Asian tournament returning (but not necessarily ready to play immediately) and then a two week international break for European players. It was a month where we only played three games, two draws in the …
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by Andrew Crawshaw My daughter was at the Bolton v Lincoln City game recently and I managed to find a stream of it and watch the last 10 minutes of the first half and the whole of the second half. Bolton emerged 3 – 1 winners with all goals scored in the second half. Nothing …
by Andrew Crawshaw After our draw last weekend against Manchester United we remain top of the WSL. Chelsea are second, two points behind us but with a game in hand. This game is therefore the epitome of a “six pointer” Here is the current table P W D L F A GD Pts 1 Arsenal …
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by Andrew Crawshaw On Wednesday evening 19 January, Covid permitting, our Women’s team enter the Continental Tyres Cup at the quarter final stage. Due to our involvement in the Champions League group stage we were exempt from the earlier group stage of the competition. Our opponents are Manchester United so I expect this to be …
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by Andrew Crawshaw This coming Sunday 09 January sees the resumption on the Women’s Super League, where We are, as yet undefeated. Here is the current table Pos Team P W D L F A GD Pts 1 Arsenal 9 8 1 0 30 3 27 25 2 Chelsea 9 7 0 2 27 6 …
by Andrew Crawshaw Whilst I was at the Emirates on Saturday watching our men’s team at last play some football and score more than one goal Chelsea Women had a lunchtime game against Reading. In the fourth minute they had a defensive lapse and Deanne Rose raced through to score past Zećira Mušović who was …
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by Andrew Crawshaw Firstly sorry this report wasn’t ready last night. A 7pm kick-off should have left me plenty of time to get back to South London and write it but a track problem interrupted my journey home and I didn’t get in till well after 11 by which time I was too knackered. The …
Read More “Women’s Champions League round of 16 Arsenal v Barcelona – Match Review”
By Andrew Crawshaw Our match against Barcelona is being played tomorrow evening at the Emirates with a 19:00 kickoff. It will also be shown live on the DAZN streaming website and probably also by arsenal.com so you should be able to watch it wherever you are in the world. Barcelona are, without doubt, the best …
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by Jon Preston A word of introduction – These are the thoughts of my Son, Jon who accompanied me (Andrew Crawshaw) to the game. As FA Cup finals go, today’s was unusual. Carried over from last season, I found myself at Wembley in December to watch Arsenal against Chelsea, a traditionalist’s tie if ever there …
By Andrew Crawshaw The 50th playing of the final of the Women’s FA Cup was held at Wembley this Afternoon in front if a crowd of marginally over 50,000. I was there along with Jon, my son and his daughter Josette. It was Jon’s first Arsenal Women’s game although we sit together at the Emirates …
Read More “2021 FA Women’s Cup Final – Arsenal v Chelsea Sunday 5 December – Part 3- Match Report”
by Andrew Crawshaw 2021 FA Women’s Cup Final – Arsenal v Chelsea Sunday 5 December – Part 1 History The match is at Wembley and kicks off at 14:00 UK Time. If you can’t be there in person it is also being broadcast live in the UK on BBC1 and BTSport 1 and local carriers …
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by Andrew Crawshaw This will be the 50th Women’s FA Cup Final, but why only the 50th? It will also mark the centenary of a disgraceful act by the FA which by itself should preclude that body having any authority over the game we all support. On 5 December 1921 the English Football Association (FA) …
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by Andrew Crawshaw The first thing I want to say is that at least this game will not have match officials from the PGMO. I expect this game to be refereed in a competent fashion without the bizarre decisions we say in the WSL match on Saturday. Here is the current league table in our …
Read More “Arsenal WFC v HB Köge Champions League – Wednesday Match Preview”
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 …
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by Andrew Crawshaw The Women’s FA Cup reaches its 50th anniversary this year. It was first won in 1971 by Southampton who beat Scottish side Stewertom 4 – 1 in a game played at the Crystal Palace National Sports Arena (a 12 minute walk from my front door). Southampton went on to dominate the early …
Read More “Today: Arsenal Women v Brighton, FA Cup semi final. Live on BBC2 and worldwide”
