Arsenal Women Arsecast Episode 68: The Laia the Land + RFEF Fallout
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🗓️ 30 August 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Arsenal Women Arsecast, Tim is joined by regular co-presenter Alex Ibaceta for a Spanish themed episode. First, Alex gives her insight on the signing of Laia Codina from Barcelona before Tim and Alex segue into talking about the Women's World Cup, Alex's experiences of covering the tournament from Perth, Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney, how the 'mid-tier' nations are closing the gap to the elite in international football and how Spain won the tournament in spite of their coach and the RFEF. Tim and Alex finish by talking about the ongoing situation with RFEF President Luis Rubiales and his refusal to go quietly.
Alex wrote a piece for the Guardian recently covering the history of internal conflict between the RFEF and the Spanish players which we would point you to to give the conversation its full context - read it here: A revolution 40 years in the making: how the Spanish women’s team fought back
You can follow Tim on Twitter @Stillmanator : Follow Alex @alexibaceta23
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of The Arscast is brought to you by TNT Sports. |
| 0:06.0 | A new season is upon us and after what Arsenal did last time around, |
| 0:10.0 | there's a lot of excitement for what Michel Arterra's man can bring us on the pitch this time. |
| 0:14.0 | But beyond that, it's all the other stuff about being a football fan that we can look forward to. |
| 0:19.0 | For example, traveling to see a game for me, the early pint in the airport is just part of the ritual of the season. |
| 0:27.0 | Those WhatsApp groups that have been pretty quiet during the summer bar, the transfer stuff, |
| 0:31.0 | will kick off an earnest and you got to remember which one you're applying to. |
| 0:34.0 | And as always, trying to finish dead last in the R-Splug Fantasy Football League. |
| 0:40.0 | I'm not even very good at that. This isn't just sport, this is everything. |
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| 1:24.0 | Hello, and welcome to the Arsenal Women Ask Cost on R-Splug.com after a short hiatus for the Women's World Cup, |
| 1:30.0 | which we will talk about a little bit in this episode. |
| 1:33.0 | I just felt that there are loads of podcasts during the Women's World Cup, |
| 1:38.0 | and it doesn't feel like a very club football-y type of time. |
| 1:41.0 | And I kind of knew that in terms of Arsenal and the transfer market, |
| 1:45.0 | there was going to be a very distinct pre and post-World Cup market. |
| 1:49.0 | We will discuss a little bit of that post-World Cup market with my guest in a minute, |
| 1:54.0 | because Arsenal have announced signing this week, who is also a World Cup winner. |
| 1:58.0 | So that ties up a lot of the themes we're going to talk about. |
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