A very subjective look into AWFC

I had mentioned to you, my friends, that I was eventually going to write about Smilla, the posts AWFC made and. the disgusting things that were posted on instagram and X. Between my decision to write a post about it, my friend Albert (fellow AWFC fan and my co-host of the women’s show on The Highbury Squad on YouTube) sent me an article that explains everything and shares some insight in a much better way that I could ever do.

The article was written by Max Radwan, someone I don’t know and I have never read his work, or anything on Versus.uk.com before but I sure as hell will now. It is absolutely terrible that the article had to be written, honestly. It’s nauseating and if it sucks for me, and for you when you read it, just imagine how women feel, daily. Just to be clear… the article is super well written, I meant that I hate that he had to write it.

I encourage you to read the whole thing HERE

One of the takeaways is when he writes: “Women’s football does not need validation from those who reduce it to aesthetics”

Also, I just checked to read other articles and he has one about how he can’t look at Arsenal the same way after Thomas Partey, and I cannot wait to read that one either.

I wish I had answers, and suggestions but mine would be to turn off all comments all the time and to have the club quit X altogether because it is disgusting. I left that hellhole and it was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made for my mental health.

Of course, I can appreciate why certain people would feel like disabling comments wouldn’t be good, but honestly I don’t think they are that meaningful anyway… do we really need to see 187 comments wishing a player happy birthday? Do we though? Or people asking for a player’s contract renewal? Like, what do the comments actually do other than make the people who make them feel like they have some control or say?

Sounds like I’m being mean but at the end of the day I would assume that the people that look at stats and such see the numbers and engagement more than the content itself BUT to that point, they need to have someone monitor and be an active mod so that every single comment gets reviewed and deleted if needed and if someone gets mad then so be it.

Just overall the reality is that toxicity is brought up in droves, mostly by men and you can see that it is not just on the women’s game. The current arsenal fanbase has an insane agenda against Victor Gyokeres that has people going on podcasts and YouTube shows calling him fat, and that’s probably the nicest things they’ve been saying lately.

All of this just makes me gag. There are many reasons why I can’t stand the song “North London Forever”… I think it is beyond cringe but not because of the lyrics (they are fantastic and better than anything I would ever write), or because I feel that it was forced to us in an effort to have our very own “You’ll Never Walk Alone” but because I knew that some people singing it would be full of shit. Whatever the weather? Really?

If this abuse comes from within, we’re absolutely cooked as a club and fanbase.

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