I’m really struggling to find the right way to frame what I am feeling. It’s hard enough to understand extremely complex emotions but add to that trying to encapsulate them while also simplifying those complex feelings so that I make an “interesting” post.
Before I continue… for those who don’t know: Arsenal Women will be playing in front of a SOLD OUT crowd at The Emirates Stadium. This has never happened and it’s breaking all sorts of records.
But…
Tomorrow is not about tomorrow itself, is it? I’m not trying to be witty or sound smart. What I’m trying to say is that the Emirates selling out tomorrow is not (only) about the specific players on the pitch against a specific opposition. It’s more than it being a CL semi and all other components. It’s so much more than that.
Not to interject myself, but just to add color to this point: I could’ve flown to this match and was planning on it but I chose not to because of work but more than anything because making this investment and flying there and NOT watch Beth, Viv, Kim and Leah just didn’t make as much sense to me. Plus, my big dream is to watch the at Borehamwood on a cold and rainy Sunday. I won’t regret not going because this is going to happen again and again and again.
The match will be so symbolic of both the whole past and the future of the club, the sport and these women’s lives. But as a professional I would assume It’s a moment in time. Only a moment in time. Not because it’s not important, but the total opposite. I feel that this is not going to be a one off per season type of situation. This is going to be a feature, just like many people have predicted in the past.
Just like Barcelona vs Madrid at Camp Nou, this will be a historic day. A before and after.
I’m proud that its us that can claim this. We more than doubled what the previous record was… which was less than 10 days ago. Absolute scenes.
Now, as far as the match tomorrow itself, the lineup, the strategy and prediction… I’ll keep it short:
I would do what I wanted to do the previous match and Jonas didn’t do which is probably why we didn’t lose but it would be 4-4-2 with Manu on goal, a backline of Noelle, Rafa, Jen and Laura. Steph, Lia, Frida and Kuhl. McCabe and Stina up front.
Strategy is bloody win you queens.
I’m predicting a 2-2 and we win on penalties.
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Listen to THAT ARSENAL WOMEN PODCAST on:
A very subjective look into AWFC 
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