Arsenal Women Arsecast 127: Mailbag and Finding the First South Asian Lioness
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🗓️ 18 June 2025
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Arsenal Women Arsecast, in part 1 Tim and Jamie take some of your questions on the future of the midfield, how Arsenal tackle five competitions next season and how seriously they’ll take the FIFA Women’s Champions Cup, transfers (obviously) and Tim and Jamie chat about links with Taylor Hinds and the negotiation with Chloe Kelly.
In part 2, Tim talks to broadcaster Marva Kreel about the new Copa 90 documentary ‘Finding the First South Asian Lioness’, which Marva presents. They talk about the making of the documentary, Marva’s own experiences playing football when she was younger, some of the subjects they didn’t have time to go into in the documentary around South Asian representation and whether there is hope for things to change for the next generation.
You can (and should) watch the documentary here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy944wVYxUw
Tim also spoke to Aman Dosanj, Arsenal’s first and (so far) only South Asian player in January 2024 for episode 75, which you can listen to here: https://arseblog.news/2024/01/arsenal-women-arsecast-episode-75-exclusive-aman-dosanj-interview/
Tim also spoke to Miriam Walker Khan and Nirali Sisodia about South Asian girls participation and some of the barriers for episode 76, which you can listen to here: https://arseblog.news/2024/01/arsenal-women-arsecast-episode-75-exclusive-aman-dosanj-interview/
Tim spoke to Natasha Henry, Annemarie Batson and Pippa Monique about a lack of ethnic diversity in women’s football coverage for episode 19, which you can listen to here: https://arseblog.news/2020/12/the-arsenal-women-arsecast-episode-19-skin-in-the-game/
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Arsenal Women Askcast on AskBlog.com with me, your host, Tim Stillman. |
| 0:18.7 | Two part episode today, we're going to do in the second part, |
| 0:23.0 | you're going to hear me having a chat with Marva Creel. |
| 0:26.5 | Marva has just fronted a documentary on Coppa 90 |
| 0:29.7 | called Finding the First South Asian Lioness, |
| 0:32.4 | which is a documentary that kind of looks into representation |
| 0:37.2 | or lack thereof of South Asian |
| 0:39.5 | girls and women in football and why we haven't seen a South Asian lioness so far. |
| 0:46.1 | And it's a really, really good documentary. |
| 0:47.8 | And we're going to chat to Marva about that in the second half. |
| 0:50.9 | But in the first half, we're going to do a little bit of a mailbag. |
| 0:53.9 | Might have a little bit of Chloe Shelley, Kelly, Chet at the top. |
| 1:00.2 | And here to do that as ever as our co-host, Jamie Spanger. |
| 1:03.0 | Jamie, how are you doing? |
| 1:04.8 | Tim, I'm good, I'm good. |
| 1:06.1 | Honestly, it's been a little bit of a while now since club football's fizzled out. |
| 1:10.3 | International football doesn't do it for me the way it does. |
| 1:12.3 | I'm hoping the Euros kind of changes that around. |
| 1:14.4 | So I'm excited to be talking about Arsenal. |
| 1:16.3 | I'm excited to hear your chat with Marva as well because she's incredible. |
| 1:19.5 | So that will be amazing. |
| 1:21.0 | The work she does is incredible. |
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