Arsenal Women Arsecast Episode 167: An Irish Goodbye
Arseblog Arsecast, The Arsenal Podcast
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4.8 • 6.9K Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2026
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Arsenal Women Arsecast, Tim and Jamie talk over the 3-1 win over Liverpool at Anfield to close out the WSL season and confirm 2nd place. Tim and Jamie talk about Alessia Russo and Mariona's seasons but the main focus is on the goodbyes to departing players. The panel discuss the departure of Katie McCabe and the handling of it and then there is a four minute exclusive interview with McCabe recorded right after the Liverpool game. In part two, Tim and Jamie take listener questions on the impact of the departures and who might step up as some of the new leaders of this squad.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Arsenal Women Ask Cast on AskBlog.com with me, your host, Tim Stillman, looking back on Saturday, Sunday, Friday. I feel like this weekend |
| 0:22.6 | has been a complete blur for me, but Saturday's 3-1 win at Amfield over Liverpool to finish |
| 0:31.2 | out the season. Arsenal, I was going to say, guaranteed in, of course they are the tables |
| 0:36.2 | final, it's over. Arsenal have finished in second guaranteed, and of course they are the tables. The final, it's over. |
| 0:39.7 | Arsenal have finished in second place. |
| 0:43.3 | And weirdly only two points behind Manchester City. |
| 0:48.8 | Just having had those games in hand for so long, that that kind of looks so weird that actually we finish really, really close. |
| 0:51.4 | But two points behind Manchester City. |
| 0:53.2 | But I mean, the real headline from that is |
| 0:55.1 | that Arsenal are straight into the group phase. |
| 0:58.6 | Next season of the Champions League, no horrible qualifiers or anything like that for the |
| 1:02.5 | second year in a row, which I think is very welcome, even if it's not exactly what everyone |
| 1:07.1 | wanted at the beginning of the season. |
| 1:08.8 | But to go over, well, not go over |
| 1:11.2 | the game blow by blow like we usually do. We're going to go a little bit more widescreen, |
| 1:15.4 | a bit more thematic on Saturday's season closer at Amfield and some other subjects that |
| 1:22.0 | have come up since we last recorded and here to do that as ever as our co-host Jamie Spanger. |
| 1:26.3 | Jamie, how are you doing? |
| 1:27.7 | Hi, Tim. I can't believe the WSL season's over. That's how I'm doing. It feels kind of weird. It just ended and I thought, oh, that's it then. Well, there you go. It feels a bit weird when it's like kind of decided on the penultimate day, but no, I'm good. I'm excited to get into this episode, Tim. I feel like there's a lot to get into. However, I'm a bit emotional. I'm recovering from Saturday's game at Amfield. |
| 1:47.4 | So let's just rip the band-aid off. Yeah, yeah. Like I said, we're not going to go through the game blow-by-blow like we usually do because we just don't think this kind of end-of-season game warrants it. Don't think Liverpool were particularly at the races. |
| 2:01.4 | I think we knew that we were going to get second place done. |
| 2:05.1 | But, I mean, first off, since we last recorded, we had the new, well, obviously we had |
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