Stateside Gooners: An Arsenal FC Show

In Episode 86 we’re not discussing anything important… only that The Arsenal are STILL leading the Premier League, how we got here, what happened across town at Craven Cottage, the upcoming UCL tilt against Simeone and his Atletico Madrid team, plus a few quick things.

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Mikel's Atletico Madrid pre-game presser is here.

On this Stateside Gooners Arsenal Women’s podcast, Eric and Matt discuss the Arsenal Women’s game against Manchester City in the Women’s Super League (WSL) action and the Arsenal match against 8-time women’s UCL champions Lyon. 

As always we’d love to hear your comments to the episode, fan origin stories, and questions you may have for us. You can leave your comments in your podcast platform of choice (Spotify and Apple are our primary platforms for now) OR DM us on the Bluesky app on @StatesideGooners 

See you next time. 

If you are interested in hearing more about the 8-time women’s UCL champions Lyon and their history, have a listen to this: 

https://www.bbc.com/audio/play/p0l48r4f

When Arsenal dominate a game like they did against West Ham (affectionately "Left Ham" to us), there's not much that makes us want to rehash the game.

We cover the goals, the big misses, THAT Michael Oliver decision that SOMEHOW went our way, Saka's milestone achievement, and Ødegaard's bum luck.

There's more, too. United are crap, the fat Aussie is crap, Liverpool were crap this week, and guess what?

Arsenal are top of the table. Enough said.

Check us out on Substack to read Matt's Top Ten.

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Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Be kind. Always.

On this Stateside Gooners Arsenal Women’s podcast, Eric and Matt discuss the disappointing draws between Arsenal Women and 1) Manchester United and 2) Aston Villa in Women’s Super League (WSL) action. Poor results that put a strain on Arsenal’s WSL campaign. We also talk about the Ballon d’Or and the Women’s Champions League matchups. 

As always we’d love to hear your comments to the episode, fan origin stories, and questions you may have for us. You can leave your comments in your podcast platform of choice (Spotify and Apple are our primary platforms for now) OR DM us on the Bluesky app on @StatesideGooners 

See you next time. 

Fun interview with Alessia Russo on bbc.com: https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c5yk7jlz3ezo

Did you know Alessia played college soccer for North Carolina, along with fellow Gunner Lotte Wubben-Moy

Ballon d’Or link: Features a terrific set of highlights from the Arsenal Women’s 2024/2025 season as well as other winners: 

https://www.sportingnews.com/us/soccer/news/ballon-dor-2025-live-updates-winners-full-results-rankings-awards/3048a79fa6d43033dc5a9ee0

In this episode we talk about this weeks Champions League match at the Emirates versus (sometimes nemesis) Olympiacos.

Lots of lineup changes, same results, a win. Goals by Martinelli and Saka sounds like 'old times.' You know when they were teenagers scoring goals together.

We had really fun goals in this game, even though they weren't as plentiful as we'd all have liked them to be, I think we'll all take the win.

There is a game coming up on Saturday against West Ham and their newly appointed manager, Nuno Espirito Santo... and Jared Bowen. So we get in there, too.

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Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Be kind. Always.

Newcastle Review, Olympiacos Preview (oh yeah, and Port Vale) ;)

I don't mean to diss Port Vale, but that game felt an awful lot like a friendly. Because we're not the mess that United clearly are, there was never really a chance we'd lose. We watched, we discussed, we moved on.

Newcastle had a lot to talk about: even THAT thing from PGMOL. Pope got the ball? Did he? Gyökeres didn't dive? Really? We'll never know what could have been, and decided it doesn't matter. The desired result was achieved.

Check us out on our Substack @statesidegooners. Matt keeps a Top Ten List for each game and you'll find the two articles I referenced here [When Opportunity Comes Knocking Because Every Big Team Dropped Points ... (Almost)] and here [The Statistical Illusion Why Arteta and Howe Are More Alike Than We Care to Admit].

Be ♥️ Kind, Always.

In THIS episode Matt and Eric spend 98% of the time bitching about PGMOL and recapping the Man City (aka 115) game, while spending about 150 seconds total previewing the game against Port Vale. Most of that chatter is really about just one arsenal player, though... so stick around for the end.

Enjoy us on Bluesky @statesidegooners.bksy.social and on Substack @statesidegooners where you can get Matt's Top Ten for this game.

Be good to each other. Stay positive, people.

In this episode Matt and Eric recap the 2-nil win over Spanish side Athletic Bilbao/Club/Team/Side thanks to super subs Martinelli and Trossard.

Then we preview the weekend Premier League match at the Etihad as The Arsenal face the Sky Blues.

Subscribe to our Substack: Check out Matt's Top Ten recap, and Eric's blog about how much we (supporters) have suffered, not to mention the players (literally) from injuries, and the effects they've had on title runs over the last three years.

On this Stateside Gooners Arsenal Women’s podcast, Eric and Matt discuss the Arsenal Women’s game against both the London City Lionesses AND the 'Left Ham' Hammers in the Women’s Super League (WSL) action. 

As always we’d love to hear your comments to the episode, fan origin stories, and questions you may have for us. You can leave your comments in your podcast platform of choice and please DM us on Bluesky at @StatesideGooners 

See you next time. 

In this episode, hosts Matt and Eric save a dog, need extra time to finish their homework, and still come away with fun commentary on a 'nice' 3-nil away victory.

As the Champions League begins a new season, tournament, thing... We have to start somewhere, and this time it's in Spain against a team we played in the preseason. How interesting!

Don't forget to check out our podcast that focuses on Arsenal FC Women!

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