A very subjective look into AWFC

I’m gonna go ahead and make an exception today and it’s going to be borderline insane. Of course, one of the most imperative things for the women’s sport to grow, is the quality of the officiating. You don’t have to have followed the league for years and years to have seen how bad calls have ruined matches, CL qualification and much more. It’s a problem in the men’s game too and the highest level. The reality is that the speed of the game is outpacing the officiating and the growth and visibility of the WSL are making it so glaringly obvious that the refs just aren’t at a decent level.

However, as much as I want the league to have the best calls, and all of that stuff, I have to shamelessly admit that city and chelsea drawing was basically the best thing that we could’ve hoped for. Yes, it basically came down to a bad ref call BUT our goldfish memories are precisely that, and I’m not mad at the notion of neither team winning, both teams dropping points and Arsenal basically benefiting. I am this petty and I don’t care.

One of the most famous cliches in football is that “it all evens out in the end”… like NO. There is no way of quantifying or equating bad calls, or missed offsides, etc etc. I do not think this is the best way to think about this and surely don’t think it’s good enough. It’s unacceptable as a matter of fact. Yet you still might think karma will come bite me in the ass, but if arsenal get bad refereeing calls it wouldn’t be because some random Venezuelan blogger mentioned it.

Speaking of things actually biting us in the ass and things that were under our control, mistakes like the goal we gifted at Man Utd are the types of errors that we just cannot commit. Doesn’t matter who is at fault, that’s not the point. This is the point though, we need to focus on US, what can WE do? what’s under OUR control?

I still haven’t been able to watch the match back but I absolutely will and let you know my thoughts.

d ❤

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