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 

On this episode of Stateside Gooners, Eric and Matt talk about a fun story about a college bar encounter with a Team 115 Charges fan. Special thanks go out to Kevin for his appearance in Episode 132, can’t wait to have him on again. 

We move on to talk about the Arsenal Full HAM match and how nice it was to see our starting wingers play like we know they can. This match was comfortable with good goals and strong performances. We also talk about what happened on Monday afternoon at the Hill-Dick stadium and the terrific goal scored by Joao Pedro in the Chelsea - Notting HAM Forest match. 

There is not much of a preview about the second leg of the Champions League semi-final against Athleti, but we are excited to watch this one and see the Emirates stadium.    

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 

Arsenal draw Atletico in the away leg of the UEFA Champions League Semi-Final. Preview English Premier League Match Week 35 as Arsenal host Fulham at Emirates Stadium.

Welcome to Kevin Gemp.

Possibly the longest episode ever? Could be, you’ll have to let me know because I’m not checking. I only know I had a great time with Kevin and after you’ve heard his origin story, you’ll know why we probably would like to see him again should (when?) new silverware is won.

How do we describe this game? Tale of two halves? Not quite? Finishers better than Starters? I’m not sure. Certainly in the 2H, but 1H was a different story. I got it, tale of PKs or maybe tale of ref/VAR decisions. Yeah, that’s it.

Fulham (Full Ham) are up next at the Emirates on Saturday. We give a preview and Kevin adds his prediction to Fantasy Rotisserie Chicken.

Thanks for listening. Do the thing. Let us know your thoughts about the episode. Positive comments only, ya’ll. Thanks.

In a game that was closer than it could have been, but for the fact that whenever Arsenal score, we retreat. (?)

3 points won is what we got and it's exactly what we needed and wanted...

Atletico Madrid up next at the Riyadh Air Metropolitano Stadium. That's 70,000 fairly rabid Atleti supporters that will whistle so much my wife will beg me to turn the sound off. How will that affect our players?

Thanks for listening. When you're at the pub having a beer with your Arsenal mate, tell them about Stateside Gooners.

Do the Thing.

On this Arsenal Women’s podcast presented by Stateside Gooners, Matt talks about the “great advertisement” for football that was the first leg of the Women’s Champions League semifinal match between the Arsenal women against Lyon. This was a match full of strong pressing from both sides, entertaining style, and an Arsenal victory. Great news from Saturday’s WSL results with league leader Manchester City dropping points to Brighton. Arsenal women have 3 games in hand and 7 matches in 20 days, so this is a really important and busy final block. Where would you rather be? 

There is no preview of Wednesday’s WSL match against Leicester City, but this is a must win match to accumulate points in the WSL race and the all important 2026-2027 Champions League spots. Rotation will be in order but how much rotation can be done?  

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 

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A long time ago, in a childhood far away, my kids watched iCarly. The kids on the program had a habit of dancing at random times every few episodes. It was the best part of the show for me.

On this episode, Sweets and Scooter take a break from Arsenal’s title aspirations to have a look at their Bluesky feed and find some interesting stories.

Stateside Gooners Bluesky

There is also discussion about pizza, kidney beans, Star Wars, and LEGO sets. College visits, neighborhood streets, and the US Men’s World Cup aspirations.

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 @StatesideGooners.bsky.social

Random Dancing will be back … &:-)>

Do the thing…