Episode 626 - Arsenal Women Season Review
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🗓️ 26 May 2021
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
In this bonus episode I'm joined by Tim Stillman to review the 2020-21 season for Arsenal Women. We chat about the overall performance, some of the issues that the team had to deal with, and how an ongoing internal review might address them. Tim picks out a couple of players who shone during the campaign, discusses the squad rebuilding job to be done with regards to some players who have left and some who might also leave, the appointment of the new manager, playing European games at the Emirates, and provides some final reflections on Joe Montemurro who stepped down as manager at the end of the season.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to a brand new R-Splug R-Scast right here on R-Splug.com. |
| 0:27.4 | A little short, relatively short, anyway bonus episode for you. There is still plenty to discuss |
| 0:33.5 | when it comes to the season that has just gone. We will be doing that as usual on the R-Scast |
| 0:40.0 | on Friday. But before we continue our look at what happened with the Arsenal man, I thought it |
| 0:45.8 | would be interesting to find out what happened with the Arsenal women this season, a season review |
| 0:51.0 | of Arsenal women and with me to discuss that. The man who writes about them and podcasts about them |
| 0:56.2 | for R-Splug, it is Tim Stillman-Height-Tim. Hello there. What would you say this season was like |
| 1:04.0 | for Arsenal women? Is it successful, unsuccessful, somewhere in the middle where did it go in terms |
| 1:11.8 | of the expectations of the start of the campaign? Yeah, sure, I would say unsuccessful, certainly. |
| 1:18.1 | I think most people who really kind of follow the women's team very closely would agree with that. |
| 1:23.9 | I'm keen that qualifying for the Champions League isn't rebranded as success for, should we say, |
| 1:31.0 | like the casual fan because there are distinctions between, because most people would look at the table, |
| 1:37.7 | see that Arsenal finished behind Manchester City and Chelsea and would say, okay, that makes sense. |
| 1:43.4 | But with the women's team, it's slightly different just because first of all, they are not |
| 1:49.6 | quite as far behind in terms of funding. In fact, with Man City, they're pretty close. Chelsea |
| 1:54.7 | have pulled away a little bit in that respect. But Arsenal women is a bigger deal, a bigger setup |
| 2:00.3 | and a team that is expected to challenge with a title in the WSL and they didn't do that this year. |
| 2:07.2 | In the end, I'd probably compare their season actually to Liverpool men. In Liverpool men, |
| 2:12.8 | they got into the top four in the end and given that that didn't always look like a certainty, |
| 2:17.1 | you take it and move on. That's how it was for Arsenal women. They did look wobbly about getting |
| 2:23.6 | that Champions League spot because Manchester United had a slightly better season than expected, |
| 2:29.7 | or at least they started very strongly. It was kind of, we got there in the end on the minimum |
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