Hello, Arsenal Women aficionados! Renée’s first home game at the Emirates Stadium as Arsenal’s permanent head coach could not have been more memorable! The 5-0 thrashing of Tottenham Hotspur has been the perfect medicine after the sucker punch received from Mary Fowler and Manchester City in the league cup semifinal, at Meadow Park. The blow […]
‘Forgettable and consequential’ An Arsenal blog from a coach’s perspective Oh boy, that game was rusty and forgettable. Oh boy, that game was memorable and consequential. So many things were true about this game that did not seem possible at the same time. We looked like we made more bad decisions in the first hour […]
Hello, Arsenal Women aficionados! Before we get to business and discuss what happened at the City Football Academy Stadium, allow me to rewind the tape a bit, as some very important things happened on and off the pitch. The FA Cup win against Bristol City saw Katie Reid getting the starting nod over the more […]
‘Arsenal just elevated’ An Arsenal blog from a coach’s perspective Sometimes it’s hard to see the big picture when you’ve just watched an individual game. Even if it’s a 5-1 win over City. Whatever the very large percentage of the footballing world is that do not support Arsenal, they are now talking about Arsenal in […]
Myles Lewis-Skelly should not have been sent off. I’m annoyed, frustrated and angry, but that’s it. You may believe that Oliver has been paid off by City or that he’s a Newcastle fan. You may believe that PGMOL and the FA hate Arsenal and that they have an underground network of lizard people plotting our downfall. […]
Hello, Arsenal Women aficionados! Well, we all knew this would happen, eventually, but I would have preferred for it to happen at another time and – most importantly – at another place. Guro Reiten’s late penalty at Stamford Bridge ended Renée Slegers’ unbeaten start and, most crucially, took any sense of jeopardy away from the […]
‘Losing the point’ An Arsenal blog from the uncorrupt version of Michael Oliver Apathy is possibly the worst emotion. I experienced it today. Apathy for one of my favourite things. Max seemed bothered with me in the second half because I wasn’t paying full attention to the game. He kept giving me the ‘what […]
Hello, Arsenal Women aficionados! What a start for our new permanent coach! We had to wait three whole months to finally land our main target, but it was definitely worth the wait, wasn’t it? The club took its time and Renée Slegers held the fort outstandingly while the recruitment process was conducted, but we finally […]
‘If there were trophies for everything’ An Arsenal blog from a coach’s perspective by Mike McDonald The game was winding down. Max and I were in the Arsenal pub in Knoxville and the tension was palpable. About 30 Arsenal fans likely all thinking the same as me. We cannot drop any points to this Spurs […]
Hello, Arsenal Women aficionados! I hope everyone had a wonderful time during the holiday season, and that everyone is ready and pumped for the second half of the season. Not much happened since we last spoke, except for three promising youngsters being handed their first professional contracts. Renée Slegers is still our interim head coach; […]
