Arsenal Women Arsecast Episode 162: Gunners bow out of the FA Cup
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🗓️ 6 April 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Arsenal Women Arsecast, Tim and Jamie rake over the coals of Sunday's 2-0 FA Cup defeat to Brighton where a rotated and tired looking Gunners side were outmatched by Dario Vidosic's side. Tim and Jamie discuss the level of rotation, what it suggests about squad depth, how Brighton's approach made it difficult for Arsenal, lack of depth in midfield and whether a dropoff in performance is avoidable after a pair of massive Champions League games. In part 2, Tim and Jamie take your questions submitted on Bluesky.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Arsenal Women AskCast on AskBlog.com with me, |
| 0:17.0 | I host Tim Stillman looking back on Sunday afternoon, 2-0 defeat to Brighton-Ho |
| 0:22.0 | Albion at Meadow Parker's Arsenal exit the FA Cup, and that decade-long wait to lift the |
| 0:27.9 | FA Cup goes on for another year. Arsenal Women won clubbing it hard this weekend, and I was at both |
| 0:37.0 | games this weekend, so had better footballing weekends. However, |
| 0:41.3 | we're here as we always are, a little bit of therapy, maybe, last game before the international |
| 0:46.6 | break. And here to break the game down with me as ever is our co-host Jamie Spanger. Jamie, |
| 0:51.3 | how are you doing? |
| 0:52.3 | Ah, Tim, who needs the FA Cup? Honestly, it's a fable competition that doesn't actually matter anyway. So we've got bigger things to worry about. No, I'm sour. I'm sour, but I'm ready to speak about it. And I think this always does tend to help Tim. So I'm good. I have's bigger issues in the world than Arsenal, I guess. |
| 1:12.1 | Yeah, I mean, my day started quite inauspiciously. I went down to Southampton for the men's game, |
| 1:17.8 | obviously stupid kickoff time, so I had to stay over. The first mistake I made, and I didn't do this |
| 1:23.8 | deliberately, I booked a hotel that had a 24-hour bar, and that allied with the |
| 1:31.4 | fact that I was planning to get the 721 train out of Southampton Central Station this morning. |
| 1:38.0 | 24-hour bar and 6.30 a.m. wake up don't go together particularly well. So my attempt to get the 721 out of southampton |
| 1:47.2 | central woke up at 10 past 8 um suboptimal really if to wake up 50 minutes after the train leaves |
| 1:56.2 | quickly looked at my phone there was a train at 826, so I had to run for that. So having |
| 2:02.3 | like literally been awake about three seconds, I just had to get out of the hotel, sprint to the |
| 2:09.1 | station, just made the train because there wasn't another one for an hour after that, and I'd |
| 2:14.6 | had been pushing kickoff for that that so um yeah not not the |
| 2:19.6 | greatest start and you know me I like to get to the same about two hours before but I got I |
| 2:23.3 | got there an hour before um instead and and really that that kind of set the tone for the day |
| 2:29.6 | um to be quite honest and we're recording this Sunday evening because I'm flying to Lisbon tomorrow for the men's game. |
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