Hello Arsenal Women aficionados!The traditional Arsenal Women Journal might well be on holidays mode but that’s no reason to rest.Has the new season already started? The Champions League draw suggests so.As we finished third in the league, we have to go through two qualification rounds if we want to make it to the group stage […]
Hello Arsenal Women aficionados! The traditional Arsenal Women Journal might well be on holidays mode but that’s no reason to rest. Last week I was stating the obvious when I said that the Arsenal would have a very busy summer ahead of them, but what was less obvious was how quickly they would start bringing […]
Hello Arsenal Women aficionados!The traditional Arsenal Women Journal might well be on holidays mode but that’s no reason to rest. The Arsenal Women team has a big summer ahead after coming dramatically close to the Champions League final and falling behind Chelsea and Manchester United in the league: Rafaelle has left to join the Orlando […]
The Arsenal Women’s season is all but over. The away defeat at Chelsea and the Manchester derby going to the Red Devils meant that we will finish the season in third – unless something unprecedented happens on the final day. It would take a very heavy defeat at home to Aston Villa and a big […]
The game against Everton had a déjà-vu element to it: four-nil at the break and a nasty injury to one of our players. I purposely held back this episode of the journal as I wanted to have some clarity about the extent of Lia Wälti’s injury and I was relieved to hear that the player […]
Champions League, here we come! The narrow home win against Leicester, followed by the empathic four-nil thumping of a valiant Brighton team and coupled with the unexpected Manchester City loss against Liverpool, propelled us to the third place, the last one that gives access to the European’s top competition. Once again, I want to hail […]
I needed time to process the result from Monday night at the Emirates Stadium, because the emotions were too many and too high.As I was sitting on the balcony at a friend’s house in Sevilla, my heart skipped a beat when Wolfsburg scored the final goal and crushed our dreams. All I felt was emptiness. […]
They might miss key players across the field; they might concede two goals in the opening 30 minutes; they might face Germany’s top side, away from home yet they won’t back down. The resilience shown by this group of players is simply sensational. Nothing is done yet in terms of reaching the Champions League final, […]
This Arsenal team has got something about it, hasn’t? From one-nil down to three-one up in the Conti Cup final against Chelsea. From one-nil down to two-nil up in the Champions League against Bayern Munich. From one-nil down to two-nil up in the league against Manchester City. Three big games against three big clubs, at […]
What a month, right? From winning the Conti Cup against Chelsea to qualifying for the Champions League semifinals for the first time in ten years! We March on, don’t we?No, I won’t apologize for the silly pun. Last night’s win against Bayern Munich was intoxicating and you will have to pay the price for it, […]
