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1w ago
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Arsenal
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Win the Dog, £20m a Year, and Total Control at Arsenal
Start with the dog. It tells you everything you need to know. Win is a chocolate labrador, a therapy dog trained not to bark, and she has been a fixture at...
1w ago
Football
FIFA Is About to Break the WSL. Arsenal and Chelsea Pay First.
FIFA has a habit of making decisions that affect everyone except the people it is supposed to serve, and the Women's Club World Cup is shaping up to be its...
1w ago
Football
WSL talking points: Chelsea punish Arsenal and Putellas finds her rhythm
There is a particular cruelty to losing a game you dominated. You can pour yourself into 90 minutes, create chance after chance, press and probe and do...
2w ago
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Arsène Wenger and Arsenal: 30 years on from appointment that changed English football
Thirty years ago, a football club announced a new manager and was met with a question so blunt it became legend. "Who the fuck is he?" went the voice from...
2w ago
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Thompson goal sees Chelsea end Arsenal's 20-game unbeaten WSL run
Twenty games. Nearly a calendar year of WSL football without a single defeat. Arsenal had built something genuinely formidable, the kind of unbeaten run...
2w ago
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‘Island girl’ Malard aims to become a legend with Bompastor at Chelsea
There is a particular kind of footballer who makes you feel the game differently just by watching them play it. Not the metronomic ones, not the mechanical...
2w ago
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WSL talking points: Arsenal’s attacking woes and Goodwin makes England case
Arsenal have now gone two home league games without a win, and the questions are stacking up faster than Renée Slegers can deflect them. A 1-1 draw with...
3w ago
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Holmberg rescues point for Arsenal but Manchester United off the mark in WSL
Smilla Holmberg's 95th-minute volley saved Arsenal's blushes, but a 1-1 home draw against Manchester United tells you everything that is starting to feel...
3w ago
Football
Premier League team news: predicted lineups for the weekend action
Ten fixtures, a mountain of injury news, and more uncertainty than a Monday morning team meeting. Let's get into what actually matters this weekend....
4w ago
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Raheem Sterling’s bleak tale a reminder of absurd path young footballers face | Jonathan Liew
At 9.13 on a May morning, a police officer finds Raheem Sterling in the passenger seat of a wrecked Lamborghini on the A327 in Hampshire, stashing nitrous...
4w ago
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‘They are very similar’: Arsenal’s Dowman reminds Merino of Lamine Yamal
Mikel Merino comparing a 16-year-old to Lamine Yamal is either an enormous compliment or an enormous amount of pressure, and the fact that Max Dowman seems...
17 September 2026
Football
Olid’s United on back foot due to late business and unforgiving WSL start
Manchester United Women are already being written off after one game. Let's be honest about what's actually going on here before the pile-on gets completely...
12 September 2026
Football
Champions League opening data shows English dominance and too few shocks
Week one of the 2026-27 Champions League is done, and if you were hoping for chaos, you were left waiting. Sixteen wins from eighteen matches sounds...
11 September 2026
Football
Declan Rice shrugs off Arsenal concerns and says 60 games a season is sustainable
Sixty-nine games last season, a painkilling injection to get through a World Cup, three weeks off before pre-season, and Declan Rice's response to Arsenal's...
11 September 2026
Football
WSL talking points: Palace result in doubt after substitution nightmare, Arsenal signings shine
Opening day of any new WSL season is supposed to be full of hope. For Crystal Palace, it turned into a cautionary tale inside 24 hours. Jo Potter's side did...
7 September 2026
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WSL transfer talking points: three things we learned from the data
The WSL window has shut, the numbers are in, and the gap between the top clubs and the rest is wider than most want to admit. The summer 2026-27 transfer...
5 September 2026
Football
Football Daily | What you won’t see in the Premier League this weekend
The transfer window slams shut and leaves behind a Premier League weekend that is as much about absences as action. Roughly £3.5 billion spent across the...
4 September 2026
Football
Gabriel Martinelli leaves Arsenal for Saudi Arabian club Al-Hilal in £60m deal
Arsenal have now sold two Brazilian forwards in the same week. That is not a transfer window, that is a clearout. Gabriel Martinelli is off to Al-Hilal for...
4 September 2026
Football
Men’s transfer window summer 2026: all deals from Europe’s top five leagues
The summer window has slammed shut, and Europe's top five leagues have collectively spent £6.1 billion across 1,340 completed deals. That's not a transfer...
1 September 2026
Football
Champions League draw: Arsenal face Real Madrid, Man City get Barcelona and PSG
The draw gods were in a generous mood for exactly one club, and it wasn't Arsenal. Mikel Arteta's side drew Real Madrid at home and Bayern Munich away, the...
28 August 2026
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