I’m currently thousands of feet in the air, sitting on this airplane chair and staring at my computer hoping that I will be super inspired to write about what we all saw yesterday. For the sake of consistency to this blog and, more importantly, commitment to YOU, i’m gonna force myself to write down some of my takeaways in whichever capacity. And come to think of it, its rather funny that I don’t have a lot to say, given the occassion and given that I clearly like the sound of my own voice too much, as per my podcasts, lol.
I just think that I’m having a hard time processing it all. It just wasn’t a normal match, it wasn’t a normal day, it wasn’t a normal performance, it wasn’t a normal scoreline, etc etc etc. Nothing normal about it, and that’s so glorious within itself. Because it wasn’t normal for me, i’m finding it hard to cope with it and understand what happened in the normal way.
I mentioned this on my podcast but I will talk about it here in case you haven’t heard or prefer to read it:
Among the things that stand out in my mind is how extremely happy I am for Jenn Beattie. I bloody love her and I’m so happy to see her get minutes and to have scored THAT goal at THAT TIME of the match was unreal and she deserves to live this moment that i’m sure she will remember FOREVER, just as we will. I think she has proven she still has what it takes to play at a very high level and I rather see her on the pitch that other defenders, to be honest. I understand she has featured more because of injuries but if there ever was a pecking order, she should be above whatever she was.
Pelova and LWM had very good games. Probably Lotte’s best game ever for Arsenal??? I mean… hat’s off to her after that solid, strong and virtually perfect performance. I feel so bad for her because she didn’t deserve to make that mistake, but nobody did. It sucks that it happened to the team and somehow this feels “less painful” than losing on penalties.
Another thing that makes it feel less painful is who we lost against. I make zero apologies and I am here to tell you I love Dom Janssen and Jill Roord with a passion. They are 2 of the players that made me fall in love with women’s football and with Arsenal, so to watch them have amazing matches made me very happy, for them, for the oranjeleeuwinnen.
The biggest thing that stands in my mind is how history will reward this team, or what’s left of it, with love and admiration. Be it arsenal people/fans or football fans overall. I think how us that got to watch the Invincibles know the lineup by heart, we will remember this starting 11 +. They are, in my mind, part of Arsenal Folklore. You know how you learn about historic teams that did X thing against X team? That’s what I mean… The Quadruple winners, the Invincibles, and now them, among many other teams. How lucky are we as a club?
I’m proud to be a gooner and there’s nothing anyone can take way from us as a fan base. Not endless pockets, not a run of a good 5 seasons. We are much more. We are not normal.
Nobody normal ever made history.
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Listen to THAT ARSENAL WOMEN PODCAST on:
A very subjective look into AWFC 
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