Arsenal Women Arsecast Episode 142: Points shared in contentious Chelsea clash
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🗓️ 10 November 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Arsenal Women Arsecast, Tim and Jamie rake over the bones of the contentious 1-1 draw with Chelsea on Saturday and consider where it leaves Arsenal's season. There is talk about how Arsenal looked to replace Kim Little, Chelsea springing a slight surprise by starting with a back four, a poor opening 15 minutes before a second half redemption arc and there is conversation over the extraordinary decision to disallow Stina Blackstenius' goal, as well as some close offside calls and a potential red card for Victoria Pelova. In the second half, Tim and Jamie take listener questions from BlueSky and from the Arseblog discord.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Arsenal Women Askcast on AskBlog.com with me, your host, Tim Stillman, looking back on Saturday's breathless, controversial, insert, |
| 0:24.8 | expletive here, 1-1 draw against Chelsea, which felt pretty breathless, certainly by the end, |
| 0:32.9 | by the second half. And there's a lot to get to in this game, both in terms of the football and some |
| 0:39.3 | of the stuff that perhaps wasn't so much about the football or not so much about the football |
| 0:43.6 | players and here to kind of break the game down with us as ever is Jamie Spanger. Jamie, has your |
| 0:50.2 | head successfully returned from Mars yet? I can't confirm if it's officially returned, Tim. Unlike the UK, it is Monday morning right now, so I've had two nights to sleep it off. So I'm feeling less aggrieved. I'm no longer seething as much as I was. I woke up yesterday morning because obviously the game finished at around like 1.30 a.m. Oz time. I woke up on Sunday morning and I was the worst person alive. |
| 1:11.8 | But I've recovered a little bit and yeah, no, let's get into this game. |
| 1:15.8 | Yeah, we're recorded, this will come out on Monday. We're recording it on Sunday evening and |
| 1:19.9 | I have to say, I know we've got some listeners and some friends of mine from the good city of |
| 1:25.3 | Kansas who are Kansas City current fans, and we're |
| 1:29.9 | recording shortly after NWSL playoff, where Kansas City, for those of you don't know, current, |
| 1:36.7 | they finish 21 points clear at the top of the NWSL. They go into the playoffs, and they've just |
| 1:43.4 | lost to eighth place, Gotham, and that's it, |
| 1:46.0 | and it's one leg, and it's a last-minute goal. |
| 1:48.7 | So, yeah, our friends from Kansas, |
| 1:51.9 | sorry, guys, that must really suck. |
| 1:54.2 | But there were some things about this game, Jamie, |
| 1:58.8 | that we're going to discuss, that sucked as well. But we'll get to those. |
| 2:04.2 | As ever, let's start with the starting line up. We knew before the game, well, I say we knew |
| 2:10.0 | before the game. Managers tend to keep stuff quiet around injuries. Actually, Renee didn't |
| 2:16.2 | this time. She was unusually kind of forthright so four of the |
| 2:19.6 | players who missed last weekend back in the squad i was expecting that i do think there are a few of those |
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