2022-23 Women’s Champions League – Arsenal v Ajax, the preview

by Andrew Crawshaw We kick off our Champions League journey on Tuesday Evening at Borehamwood with the first leg of a home and away tie against Ajax.  The game starts at 19:30.  The UEFA website has no information of any live stream coverage, neither does arsenal.com (they do say that they will have audio available) so …

2022/23 WSL Arsenal v Brighton – the match report

by Andrew Crawshaw Arsenal finally got the WSL Season up and running with a home tie against Brighton at a sold out Borehamwood on Friday evening. Match Highlights are below and are also available through arsenal.com or the FAPlayer (which also has a full match video).  Here are the highlights. https://youtu.be/g3v2Q-irM6k Our starting 11 – This …

Why the bond between fans in the stadium and the players is stronger

By Tony Attwood Why is the media so certain Arsenal will fail in 2022/23? There is a piece in the Guardian today which says, “The bond the match-going contingent shares with his players feels stronger than with any Arsenal team for many a year.” Maybe that’s so, although it seems rather a simplistic and possibly …