Hello and welcome to the Arsenal Women Ask Cast with me your host Tim Stillman.

You may remember that about a fortnight ago we put out an episode which was an exclusive interview with former Arsenal

goalkeeper Amanda Assange about her career journey in football and the fact that she

I think currently still is the only was certainly the first British South Asian to represent England at any level in football and

Really grateful to both of my guests actually for this podcast who put me in touch with the man originally

and we're going to kind of you know take that conversation a little bit wider in this podcast

and talk a little bit more broadly about participation of South Asian girls in football and

this is obviously off the back of or at least the the contact we had with our two guests tonight was off the back of the article

we wrote on Ask blog news in November about the lack of ethnic diversity, both in the Arsenal

Women's First Team Squad at the moment

and English Women's Football more generally.

And as ever with these things,

there's so many different things going on,

so many different communities,

with so many different experiences

that it's never just one story it's a real

milieu and we want to we want to continue this conversation and not just write

the one piece about it and say job done so to help me with that conversation first I'd like to introduce

Miriam Walker Khan from Sky Sports Miriam thanks so much for joining us

thanks for having me I didn't ever think I'd be on this podcast as a women's fan, but here we are.

It takes all sorts. And also joining us is from the Kickback podcast, Nali Sisodia Niralia that the

Niralia sorry Nirali thanks for joining us. It's going to be here to just like

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