Arsenal Women Arsecast Episode 35: FA Cup Final preview ft. Steph Catley and Noelle Maritz
Arseblog Arsecast, The Arsenal Podcast
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🗓️ 1 December 2021
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
On this bonus episode of the Arsenal Women Arsecast, Tim talks to Arsenal left-back Steph Catley ahead of the showpiece game about her difficult first season in London, not being able to go home to Australia for over 18 months, her hamstring surgery last season and why she is loving this season. Tim is also joined by Arsenal right-back Noelle Maritz, who talks about her upbringing in the USA and Switzerland, facing up to her old Wolfsburg teammate Pernille Harder on Sunday and her first ever game at Wembley.
Then Tim and Alex are joined by women's football journalist and Chelsea fan Jessy Parker Humphries for their perspective on Sunday's showpiece final. You can follow Jessy on twitter @jessyjph
You can follow Tim on Twitter @Stillberto : Alex @AlexIbaceta23
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to a bonus edition of the Arsenal Women's Askcast on Asplog.com. |
| 0:19.6 | Special edition looking ahead to this Sunday's FA Cup Final between Arsenal and Chelsea |
| 0:25.3 | at Wembley Stadium, it doesn't get much bigger than that. |
| 0:29.1 | The two teams have met at Wembley a couple of times of course in the FA Cup Final in recent |
| 0:33.1 | years in 2016. |
| 0:35.4 | Arsenal 1-0 winners thanks to a screamer from Arsenal legend Daniel Carter. |
| 0:40.7 | Two years later the teams met at Wembley again in the 2018 Final, Chelsea 3-1 winners on |
| 0:46.8 | that day. |
| 0:47.8 | So really big exciting game coming up at Wembley Stadium. |
| 0:51.9 | For those of you who are wondering why the FA Cup Final is taking place in December and |
| 0:56.7 | who perhaps aren't familiar. |
| 0:58.2 | This is actually last season's FA Cup Final but what happened was because of the lockdown |
| 1:05.2 | during the early part of 2021 in England. |
| 1:09.7 | Football that was considered below elite level so semi professional and amateur was suspended |
| 1:15.8 | and that included a lot of women's football clubs in the early rounds of the FA Cup. |
| 1:20.6 | So basically the FA Cup was delayed for a couple of months last season. |
| 1:25.5 | So what the FA did was they squeezed in, they got up to the fifth round basically at |
| 1:31.0 | the end of last season and they played the quarter final, the semi final and the final |
| 1:35.2 | in the first half of this season and actually a fairly nice touch and this Sunday's final |
| 1:41.3 | is going to be played on the 100th anniversary of the English Football Association banning |
| 1:47.2 | women's football, a ban which survived for 50 years in the end. |
| 1:52.1 | So really good of the FA actually to pick such a poignant date but that's not really what |
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