Official Arsenal Women FC Discussion Thread

[Goonerred]

Who's worse, men's or women's side?

0-2 now. Men's I think. At least the ladies were in Europe, in the cup and fighting for the title.

[Ach]

But they've choked the league after being miles ahead

Men's have done likewise for top 4

No idea who the women's manager is but he/she will be gone surely. Take Arteta as well

[Santi]

Chelsea one of the best women’s teams in the world, we just can’t beat them at the moment but no real shame in going out. This wa a basically the final, chelsea have it won now.

Just need to hope they slip up and draw unexpectedly in the league.

[Goonerred]

But they've choked the league after being miles ahead

Men's have done likewise for top 4

No idea who the women's manager is but he/she will be gone surely. Take Arteta as well

We're only a point behind Chelsea with the same amount of games played.

[Santi]

He’s a catchphrase merchant. We were never miles ahead anyway, only had a decent gap due to games in hand.

[Ach]

But they've choked the league after being miles ahead

Men's have done likewise for top 4

No idea who the women's manager is but he/she will be gone surely. Take Arteta as well

We're only a point behind Chelsea with the same amount of games played.

We were plenty of points ahead at one stage

[Santi]

Spurs 1-1 Chelsea at the moment. Chelsea keeper also been red carded.

Big chance.

[Santi]

Oh f**k off Spurs, Chelsea literally just gone 2-1 up with 10 women....

[Goonerred]

Chelsea losing, Arsenal drawing, We are winning the league as it stands. Come on ladies. Another half to come though

[Nuggets]

Chelsea losing, Arsenal drawing, We are winning the league as it stands. Come on ladies. Another half to come though

[Goonerred]

Chelsea drawing now, we are drawing, Chelsea winning the league now. Sam Kerr equalised she's a good player.

[Goonerred]

Chelsea lead, we can't do a thing about if if Chelsea win.

[Goonerred]

Arsenal one up, come on United.

[Goonerred]

Chelsea 4-2 up, Arsenal 2 up, but Chelsea will win the title.

[Clarkey T]

It's nice to see that the BBC has started putting women's football on pretty much every week now, the one thing that I do wonder about is the fact that men's football is on paid for channels so if you want it - you pay for it, where as women's football is just forced on people.

I don't mean that in a bad way, just that if you want to try and get more interest in women's football, forcing it on people isn't really the way to go.

Live men's football isn't allowed to be shown on TV at 3PM on a Saturday afternoon... why? because the watershed, why is there a watershed? simply so that people go to games rather than watching it on TV.


So with all this "we need to level up - promote women's football blah - try make it equal to men's football" etc etc... how is it fare that you have to pay to go see men's football and you have to go to the actual game, but you can watch the women's football for free at home on your tv.

We people to go to watch the men's game - but we don't force them to go to watch the women's game - that's one thing that's not 'being equal'


In my opinion, a ladies team should play in the same stadium as the men's team,

Why do men get to play in a 60,000 capacity Emirates Stadium and the women get to play in a 5,000 Borehamwood stadium? - that's a second thing that isn't 'being equal'

It's not like we are a non league club with a crappy pitch that can't handle being played on more than once a week.

Maybe give men's season ticket holds free entry to women's games, do half time draws etc, cheap entry etc.


A few weeks ago Barcelona Ladies played at the Nou Camp and the attendance was something like 90,000

I've watched a lot of women's matches over the years since the whole of the 2015 Women's World Cup was broadcast on the BBC and have seen some really entertaining games, I fully believe that there are a lot of people out there who would go to watch women's games if it was marketed better.

With the high admission prices in football a lot of people can't afford to go watch the women's team as well as the men's team but free entry to season ticket holders and half price entry to people who attended a men's game the same week would make it affordable.

We wouldn't be paying to rent Borehamwood's ground so that's money that can go towards costs of the women playing at the Emirates etc.


Someone may shoot the suggestion down with "playing at an empty Emirates is not good"

1 - Over time the attendances would grow.
2 - Look at the FA Vase Cup - the final is at Wembley and the finalists most likely don't even have an average attendance of 300 at their home games.


This may sound like a rant or a rave but it just annoys me when I hear politicians talking about how they've been making women's sport 'equal' - because putting it on the TV more is not making it equal.