A very subjective look into AWFC

Happy Monday, friends!

I hope you all had a great and that you are all feeling how “North London is Red”… For me in Los Angeles and for many all over the world, that just isn’t a thing nor is it as big of a deal for us as it is for people in England. Not playing it down, enjoy your bragging rights. Now, we can talk about this at length and I can defend what I said in the sense that I am not trying to minimize the importance of a derby, but I just feel that the magnitude of the NLD is greatly overhyped and unfair.

We are trying to be fed parallels to the men’s game all the time and this is a perfect example. Rivalries grow through time and usually, kinda the point, both sides win often and it’s somewhat evenly split. And I get it… there are geographical factors, historical ones, etc. I get it…

I think it’s unfair to basically bully Spurs when they have no fighting chance. As a club we have so much more history, resources, coverage, respect, etc and of course it’s easy to beat spurs, there’s truly no competition. I get we should be ruthless and all of that, but its much more meaningful to see “London is Red” than “North London Is Red”… meaning we beat Chelsea, the true competition and titles wise the past few seasons, we are the Spurs to their Arsenal.

Look, I get it. I was born and raised in Venezuela where baseball is a religion. My local team for Caracas, Los Leones, was and is one of the most successful clubs. To be contrarian I started supporting Los Navegantes del Magallanes, a team from miles and miles away, who were battling for the top and championships every year too. It’s like El Clásico for us. It’s super even and it goes back and forth.

El Clásico in Spain, for women, is so, so, so one sided, just like the NLD. Anyway, I just don’t love when these marketing machines spoon feed us what we should value and what should be a rivalry so there is more money to be made. I understand that its for the fans as well but I’m just not that impressed.

5-2 was great, I loved it, don’t get me wrong but that’s what should’ve been, and I know you agree.

Beyond sad that Asllani has done her ACL, one of my favorite players in woso. Such a shame. Truly hope she can come back from this.

❤

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