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@gunnerblog
Arsenal really need to shift their mentality next season. Stop being grateful just to be taking part and realise you’re a good side that should be winning every game you play. Need to develop that ruthless winning mentality like City have.
Spain comfortably the best team in tournament and making it to the final. England going deep despite playing badly, what a 2023 Women’s World Cup tribute act this is.
One of the greatest things about Arsenal’s trajectory under Arteta is that it’s made other clubs buy into a sunken cost fallacy with their subpar managers
You’d think that, rather than cosplaying as Barstool Sports, a respected outlet like The Athletic would mention in its headline that the US side was made up of retired players and that the youngest US outfield player was 38.
A Wrexham team featuring former, current and guest players beat a U.S. Women side 12-0 at The Soccer Tournament.
Lee Trundle, who played for
#WxmAFC
between 2001 and 2003, scored four times.
Well done to everyone in the qts for nooticing that the 5th tier of English women’s football (which is the equivalent of the 8th tier of men’s football in terms of regionalisation) isn’t quite up to the standard of professional men’s football. Nothing gets past these guys!
There were more than 3,000 in attendance when
@FulhamFCWomen
last played at the Cottage.
@georgiaheasman
was on the scoresheet against her former side AFC Wimbledon. 🎯
All for the sentiment but those are rookie boos unfortunately, makes you appreciate the fact that football fans have mastered the art of booing like no one else
Just Stop Oil's activist Phoebe Plummer says the London Marathon is safe but won't say whether football events will be.
"We have a government who is actively planning the deaths of hundreds of millions of people."
@JustStop_Oil
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@olivermiocic
Sit in silence all game, boo the team off after a good performance, and the state of the club on the pitch is the best it’s been in almost 2 decades, entitled wankers don’t know how good they have it right now.
Have the people in the quote tweets ever actually watched men’s football? This is a long held Spanish tradition in the round of 16 of major tournaments.
When I first started watching women’s football Viv was basically playing a different sport to everyone else. Unplayable gets overused but that was the only way to describe Viv at her peak.
To win the WSL Arsenal need to:
Win at Chelsea
Win at City
Win every game against the rest of the league
Hope that Chelsea drop points somewhere
Hope that City drop points somewhere
1% chance, 99% faith
This very much one of many problems with these artificial cities in the gulf but why the fuck would you build a new city from scratch and cater entirely to car users?
@AdamCrafton_
Getting upset over poetry being incorporated into football commentary is a classic case of: ‘British people will moan about literally anything’
Forget about the fact that we sold out the Emirates for a sec, going to a women’s game where people marched to the to the ground with a smoke bomb, then being involved in some absolute limbs for both goals (plus the offside one) - was something that seemed so far off in the past.
Arsenal’s outgoing transfer business in the last 4 summers has shown how huge the value of the academy is. £120m pure profit raised for Willock, Balgoun, ESR and Eddie; all of whom were pretty much surplus to requirements at the time of their departure.
FIFA is a registered charity and FA’s are nonprofit organisations, not businesses, so the revenues the respective competitions generate is irrelevant (hence why equal pay is only demanded at int’l level). These are all things that you are demonstrably unaware of
@Tgarratt10
.
@AdamSalter4
The Cedric handball, Bruno missing a pen, the Xhaka screamer, Nuno scoring a goal. It had everything. Tbf that was at the stage of the season where we were running on empty due to injuries. Our December to March run was the blueprint for the success we had the following season.
His name is Thomas Partey.
For all those who refuse to call his name and still refer to “
#5
” but still love to see him play, you ain’t fooling anyone with your selective outrage.
players knew instantly how bad that tackle was and Everton medical team assisting Lia. straight up deserved red card and shameful piece of play - can we have ONE game?!
Beyond saving Arteta’s job at the end of 2020, I’ll always associate Smith Rowe with the excitement we all felt going back to stadiums in 2021 and refreshing the songbook with his chant
@Stillberto
Reading vs Bradford FA Cup quarter final in 2015, a topless and overweight pitch invader ran onto the pitch, attempted to do backflips in front of the Bradford fans; nearly broke his neck, stadium announcer/dj started playing circus music on the PA system.
@ellis_platten
I mean, it’s not like our last internal appointment produced the best long term run of results in our history or anything. England fans don’t know ball.
Look I know they are ostensibly a brand, albeit one rooted in a community institution, but right now I feel so connected with this club thanks the people I’m lucky enough to spend time with in the pubs, the stands, on the concourses or interact with online.
Really strong performance from Lotte today, progressive on the ball both with her passing and carries and strong defensively too. Daly got very little change out of her.
Started my day watching Lina Hurtig scoring a winning penalty, finished it by watching Fabio Vieira scoring a winning penalty. Never lose your smiles girls and mens.
Not a huge amount of history between England and Switzerland but who could forget Jordan Pickford leathering home a penalty in *checks notes* the 2019 Nations League third-place playoff?
@afcjxmes
Not a criticism of him at all but it’s kinda embarrassing that he has to tweet this because our fans are so obsessed with playing the yooth when we have one of the youngest teams in the league and have at least 4 hale end grads in our first team squad for years now.
Pushing 40k for a dead rubber against a team down towards the bottom of the table is genuinely more impressive than selling out the stadium for the big games. Full time move the Ems feels a lot more viable if none of our league attendances are falling below 30k.
If you were a casual you’d genuinely think Ella Toone was an elite player. Stinks the place out 90% of the time but always pops up with worldies in big games for some reason.
@samuelluckhurst
Arsenal are on course for 69 points (nice) at their current pace. United and Liverpool finished 3rd on 66 points in the last two seasons.
Long read on how Arsenal fans are changing women's football fan culture. Had really interesting and insightful conversations with
@AWFChomeaway
and
@rednwhite_awfc
about the improved atmosphere at AWFC games and woso fan culture in general.
Had the absolute pleasure of coming on the AWFC Arsecast to do some top tier basking after winning the Stina Blackstenius Cup™️.
Cheers to
@Stillmanator
for having me on 👌
After 42,000+ people attended the reverse fixture in Newcastle, tonight offers an illustration of how far behind England French women's football is right now specifically in terms of attendances for the national teams. A real shame, after France hosted 2019's World Cup
#Lionesses
Lino Sousa - Aston Villa
Cozier Duberry - Brighton
Chido Obi - Man United
Reuell Walters - Luton
All lost for free in the last 6 months. Life under Arteta.
If nothing else, the continued singing of 10 German Bombers just shows how stale the fan culture is around the men’s national team. There’s obviously sound people who go to the games but it is mostly seen as a jolly-up for poppy shaggers.
One of the things I really like about women's football is how, generally, the coaches seem to be more willing to go into detail when discussing tactics compared to the men's game. Love details like the last sentence, makes you think about your overall understanding of the game.
@afcjxmes
Would even argue that getting to within 2 pts of the T4 in 20/21 was a successful season considering the goal going into it was simply to get back into the T6 after consecutive 8th finishes. We also hit a 90pt pace from December to mid March before injuries derailed us.
@afcjxmes
It’s funny cos people talked about the title having an asterisk due to covid when in reality, playing the last 10 or so games behind closed doors when the title was wrapped up totally did them in.