Stateside Gooners: An Arsenal FC Show

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This is Stateside Gooners with Kevin Gemp.

Unscripted chat about what’s happened in the first week, what we liked, who made us happy, surprises, and what’s next.

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We enjoyed having you this season and look forward to giving you World Cup, silly season, preseason, and more between now and next season.

Have a great summer everyone!

On this Stateside Gooners, Eric and Matt discuss the Champions League Final against PSG. Losing on penalties is a terrible way to lose the Champions League. Technically, Arsenal were undefeated in the 2025-26 Champions League but did not win the cup. 

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 on Spotify or Apple Podcasts or through social media on Substack or Bluesky @StatesideGooners.

On this Stateside Gooners, Eric and Matt talk about Arsenal’s manager, Mikel Arteta, and his reaction to winning the Premier League. The guys talk about how special a manager Arsenal have and how he has been curious about improving the team’s weaknesses instead of doubling down on the team’s strengths.  We still can’t believe we’ve won the league. 

There is no Champions League Final preview in this one. You’ll have to wait until Friday for that one. You will get to hear Matt attempt to say Khvicha Kvaratskhelia. 

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 on Substack or via DM to Eric and Matt on the Bluesky app on @StatesideGooners 

What else do we need to say?

Thank you for listening to our pod. You've shared it around with your circle of Gooners. We're on 6 continents and I stopped counting how many countries thanks to you and your mates sharing. That makes us happy.

The long wait is ended. The king is dead, long live the king!

On this Arsenal Women’s podcast presented by Stateside Gooners, Matt talks about the last two matches of the 2025-26 season for the women. A season that started with so much momentum and promise with 5 separate competitions and ended with 1 trophy. The Arsenal women’s team said good bye to a couple of club legends this season. Matt discusses the matches, the goals, and talks about the departing legends as well as all the departing players. It sets up an interesting summer. 

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 on Substack or via DM to Eric and Matt on the Bluesky app on @StatesideGooners 

No game review today.

We connected and recorded to take a measured view of the 3-0 win over Palace today, the feels for our squad (if any), Dear Leader Webb's astonishing take on THAT VAR decision, and how IFAB will be taking a review of adjudicating corner kicks next season and/or beyond.

Of course, we've upped our Fantasy Rotisserie Chicken game by adding more games, upping the points for games, too.

We'd appreciate your (preferably positive) review of our pod using your favorite pod platform, and your further generosity to share us with your pub buds so they can enjoy what we're doing, too. Thank you for listening.

On this Arsenal Women’s podcast presented by Stateside Gooners, Matt recaps the week that was in Arsenal women’s football. There are three games to recap and talk about, each deserved their own podcast but life can get in the way. The second leg of the Lyon-Arsenal Women’s CL tie lived up to the hype. Another great advert for the sport. Lyon were really physical and unlike in the first leg, this ref did not call the fouls. Matt shifts to talk about the away matches to Brighton and Aston Villa and the strikingly different Arsenal teams that took the field. This was a trying week where Arsenal were eliminated from the CL and the WSL title, but Arsenal salvaged the week with some stunning goals and a victory that guarantees CL action in 2026-2027. 

There is a small preview of Wednesday’s WSL match against Everton (come to think of it, I may not have mentioned that Everton are the opponent). This is a must win for me so that Arsenal control their fate to 2nd place in the WSL ahead of Chelsea.  

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 on Substack or via DM to Eric and Matt on the Bluesky app on @StatesideGooners 

I would rather have talked about just the one thing in this episode, but we don’t get paid nothing to talk about less, we talk about more.

Does that sound a little bit like a Bilbo Baggins birthday party speech?

"I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve”

The lineup, the injury, the substitutions, the sub that got subbed, the goal, the foul, VAR, the LMFAO (ahem, PGMOL)… we end up talking about it all. And this time we’re on video. Maybe next time we’ll fix our hair?

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On this episode, Eric and Matt share the absolute joy and excitement of Arsenal qualifying for the Champions League Final (so much fun to write that sentence). Natalie provided audio clips from the match and we’ve spliced that into the episode. We ask and answer the question, “Is Saka back?” We also discuss this newfound lineup mix of technical players surrounding goalscorer Gyokeres. There is not much of a preview of our upcoming match against West Ham on Sunday, but we do talk about the upcoming match. 

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 on Substack or via DM to Eric and Matt on the Bluesky app on @StatesideGooners