Hello and welcome to the January Arsenal Women Ask Cost on AskBlog.com. The best podcast

dedicated to the Arsenal Women's team which we can say with absolute confidence because

it is the only podcast dedicated solely to the Arsenal Women's team. For those of you who

follow Arsenal Women will know that there has been quite a lot of controversy in the

last week or so around players flying to Dubai over Christmas and New Year for those of

you that perhaps don't know. A few Arsenal players, a few man city players, some Manchester

United players, I think a Birmingham city player, a lot of England internationals fluted

by over the Christmas break, subsequently several of them have come back with coronavirus

and the upshot is that most of the WSL games after the resumption of the Christmas break

had been postponed due to coronavirus cases and in Arsenal's case we know three players

went to Dubai, one of those has been named to haven't but one of them came back with

coronavirus and subsequently mixed with some teammates who therefore had to self isolate.

What this is kicked off is a real big controversy about should players be doing that in the middle

of a pandemic and then the knock on effect of having games postponed. There has been a lot

of discussion over this and I think quite rare in women's football that people really round

on women's footballers but it happens this week. With me to discuss, not just really the

incident but the reaction to the incidents in particular and what it says about what

we expect of women and female athletes is author of the roar of the lionesses and the pride

of the lionesses, Dr Carrie Dunn, Carrie thanks so much for joining us again your second time

on the podcast. Thank you very much for having me. Before we crack on I understand you're

writing another book is that right? I am, yeah it should be out before the women's

euros hopefully for taking place in 2022. It's more about the history of the women's game.

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