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by Andrew Crawshaw The Continental Tyres Cup is to Ladies Football what the Carabao Cup is to the Men. It is the League Cup competition and is open to the 23 teams in the top two divisions of Women’s football. The teams are split, approximately geographically into three groups of six and one of five …
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by Andrew Crawshaw The Match was the last of the 10 WSL matches for the first game week. Here is a quick round up of the other nine :- Manchester City started on Saturday afternoon with a derby against newly promoted Manchester United. This was played at the main Etihad stadium before a WSL record …
Read More “Arsenal Women v West Ham – Sunday 8 September The Untold Match Report”
by Andrew Crawshaw So far Arsenal have confirmed the departure of 10 players following the expiry of their contracts. Whilst many are well known, I have added my thoughts on the youngsters who you might not be as familiar with. Vontae Daley-Campbell a highly thought of Right Back and a mainstay of our U18 team …
By Andrew Crawshaw The Women’s World Cup gets underway this coming Friday (7th June) when hosts France take on South Korea in the Parc des Princes stadium in Paris. The semi finals and final will be held at the Parc Olympique Lyonnaise in Lyon. There are 24 countries taking part in six groups of four. …
by Andrew Crawshaw After our agonising third place finish last season, one point behind Manchester City, hopes were high at the start of this season that second place and Champions League qualification would be an achievable objective this time round. We had recruited well in summer with Pauline Peyraud-Magnin, Tabea Kemme, Lia Walti, Viktoria Schnaderbeck …
Read More “Arsenal Women WSL Champions – how the season unfolded”
by Andrew Crawshaw I know I am late with this review, I can only apologise and claim extenuating circumstances. The Women’s Super League Season finished on Saturday, a day before the Men’s Premier League and whilst it didn’t have quite the same drama, as Arenal had won the League with a game to spare, it …
Read More “Arsenal v Manchester City (Women) match review of the end of season game”
by Andrew Crawshaw A quick preview this week as I still don’t have the usual time available (Cancer is a bitch). Here courtesy of Premierleague.com are the Week 33 matches and officials Friday, 5 April 20:00 Southampton v Liverpool Referee: Paul Tierney Assistants: Stuart Burt, Darren Cann Fourth official: Graham Scott Saturday, 6 April (all matches 15:00 …
By Andrew Crawshaw There are two games this weekend in the WSL, both involving clubs with games in hand. We are away to Liverpool in a game that will be televised on BT Sport on Sunday at 12:30 UK time, so there is a fair chance of finding it on a stream for those of …
By Andrew Crawshaw I saw an article this morning referencing the latest CIES Observatory weekly report which according to the headline was listing the most fouled teams in Europe. On checking the source document it was, of course, not actually doing that at all but the difference between the numbers of fouls committed by a …
Read More “Arsenal Squad Values – Changes since the start of the season”
by Andrew Crawshaw Whilst the most that our Men’s team can achieve is third place in the Premier League, our Women and U18s are in with a real shot of winning their leagues, sadly our U23s are not going to retain the title they won last year. Arsenal Women Current League table :- Team P …
by Andrew Crawshaw As you all know our match on Sunday against United was our last this season against the other ‘top six’ clubs. All of the others have two matches to play against each other. Here is the current mini-league table P W D L +/- Pts Man City 8 6 1 1 12 …
Read More “The top 6 head to head and the run in to the PL title”
by Andrew Crawshaw Here, Courtesy of premierleague.com are this weekend’s matches and officials. NB kickoff times 15:00 unless stated. Saturday 2 March 12:30 Tottenham Hotspur v Arsenal Referee: Anthony Taylor Assistants: Gary Beswick, Adam Nunn Fourth official: Jonathan Moss AFC Bournemouth v Man City Referee: Kevin Friend Assistants: Matthew Wilkes, Adrian Holmes Fourth official: David Coote Brighton v Huddersfield …
Read More “Matchweek 29 – the games, officials, and the ref who never books a Spurs player”
by Andrew Crawshaw In the weekend games that between United and Liverpool stands out in terms of the number of fouls called – 15 against United and 17 against Liverpool – one every 3 minutes overall. Three United players were substituted with muscular injuries. One United player got a yellow card whilst three Liverpool players …
Read More “Matchweek 28 – All the game, Officials and the return of rotational fouling”
by Andrew Crawshaw In the last round of matches the following stands out Watford were called for 21 fouls in their game against Everton but only had two yellow cards awarded against them. Here is a table showing who committed the fouls and when. Andre Gray should consider himself lucky not to have picked up …
Read More “Matchweek 27 – all the games and officials, and some predictions.”
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 Here, courtesy of premierleague.com, are this weekends fixtures and appointed match officials. Please note that kickoff times are 15:00 (UK time) unless otherwise noted :- Saturday 9 February 12:30 Fulham v Man Utd Referee: Paul Tierney Assistants: Eddie Smart, Mick McDonough Fourth official: Graham Scott Crystal Palace v West Ham Referee: Craig Pawson Assistants: Lee Betts, Ian Hussin Fourth official: …
Read More “Matchweek 26 – The games and officials; phantom fouls and time under caution”
by Andrew Crawshaw By a quirk from the fixture Gods, this week has our Women with two cup ties. Sunday had us in the fourth round of the FA Cup and Thursday Evening has us in the semi-final of the League Cup. Sunday 03 Feb – Crawley Wasps v Arsenal This was one of those …
by Andrew Crawshaw Here is the current League table courtesy of fulltime-league.thefa.com POS P W D L GD PTS 1 Reading FC Women Academy 15 11 1 3 30 35 * 2 Liverpool FC Women Academy 11 9 1 1 31 28 3 Chelsea FC Women Academy 13 9 0 4 11 27 4 Arsenal …
Read More “The Arsenal Junior Teams – January Update Part 3 – The Women’s Development Squad”
by Andrew Crawshaw Here, courtesy of premierleague.com are the full details of this weekend’s fixtures. nb kickoff times 15:00 unless noted otherwise:- Saturday 2 February 12:30 Tottenham Hotspur v Newcastle Referee: Andre Marriner Assistants: Simon Long, Sian Massey-Ellis Fourth official: Lee Probert Brighton v Watford Referee: Simon Hooper Assistants: Daniel Cook, Darren Eaton Fourth official: Roger East Burnley v Southampton Referee: Anthony Taylor …
by Andrew Crawshaw This article continues from the under 18s update. After a strong start to the season, injuries, red cards and players being called up for first team duties had a massive impact on Freddie Ljungberg’s youngsters. A win and two draws in October were followed by a dreadful November and December which saw …
Read More “The Junior Teams January Review – Part 2; the U23s”
by Andrew Crawshaw Below is a table showing matches undertaken by each referee for the ‘top 6’ clubs (I have also included Everton as they have had the most referees this season) Total games Percent featuring top 6 Top 6 games Arsenal Chelsea Liverpool Man C Man U Spurs Everton Anthony Taylor 20 65% 13 …
Read More “The curious case of the uneven effect of referee activity in the PL.”
by Andrew Crawshaw Here, courtesy of premierleague.com, are the matches for this mid-week round which is Matchweek 24. Kickoff times are 19:45 unless noted otherwise. Predictions for some of the games will appear on the Predictions websites. The Arsenal v Cardiff predictions are already online. Tuesday 29 January Arsenal v Cardiff City Referee: Mike Dean Assistants: Darren Cann, …
by Andrew Crawshaw Here, courtesy of the FA website are the matches and officials for the 16 matches in the FA Cup Fourth Round:- Friday 25 January Bristol City v Bolton Wanderers 7.45pm, Friday 25 January Referee: Stuart Attwell Assistant Referees: Richard West & Lee Venamore Fourth Official: Craig Hicks Arsenal v Manchester United 7.55pm, …
Read More “The FA Cup Fourth Round – All the Games and Match Officials including VAR”
by Andrew Crawshaw Our U18s are currently managed by Ken Gillard. The U18s are currently second in their league, the U18 Premier League South having played 13 of their 22 games. We are 2 points behind Spurs and 3 ahead of Chelsea. Aston Villa are fourth by a big margin so it looks to be …
Read More “The Arsenal Junior Teams January Update – Part 1 the U18s”
by Andrew Crawshaw Here courtesy of premierleague.com are this weekend’s matches. Please note kickoff times are 15:00 unless stated otherwise:- Saturday 19 January 12:30 Wolves v Leicester Referee: Chris Kavanagh Assistants: Daniel Cook, Sian Massey-Ellis Fourth official: Roger East AFC Bournemouth v West Ham Referee: Simon Hooper Assistants: Adrian Holmes, Derek Eaton Fourth official: Kevin Friend Liverpool v Crystal Palace Referee: Jonathan Moss …
