Football Archives: 10/2016

Arsenal Ladies failed to qualify for the Champions League for the fourth consecutive time, a worrying trend for a club that used to dominate English football for more than a decade.

It was a case of Arsenal’s most notable loanees in action against each other on Saturday as Middlesbrough hosted Bournemouth.

FIFA have revealed the slot allocation for the next Women’s World Cup that will take place in France in 2019.

Arsene Wenger has reportedly met with Genort Rohr of Nigeria to discuss their use of Alex Iwobi in their game against Algeria on 12 November.

The final Women’s Euro 2017 line-up is now complete.

Its that time of year again. A new season, and soon enough a new edition of Football Manager and I’m going to show you how to be Invincible.

Seven Arsenal Ladies have been involved with England u19 and u17 during the international break with tournament success for the u19 side.

Leicester City have managed to climb to 12th in the Premier League table thanks to a 3-1 win at home to Crystal Palace.

Tottenham have dropped two more points after drawing 0-0 away to Bournemouth.

Arsenal Ladies starlet, Leah Williamson, visited St Albans Girls’ School along with teammate Jordan Nobbs in a quest to encourage more girls to take up football.

There was no miracle on Sunday and Doncaster Belles are going down after losing 2-1 at home to Notts County Ladies.

Arsenal were able to close the gap with ‘imperial’ Manchester City to zero points (and just one goal) after Pep Guardiola’s men missed TWO penalties to draw 1-1 with Everton.

Arsenal’s win over Swansea at the Emirates on Saturday moved them to second in the table, one point ahead of Tottenham who almost lost to West Brom at the Hawthornes.

After what was the worst defence of a Premier League title by the champions last season, Leicester showed that they are likely to take that accolade from Chelsea this campaign after they were brushed aside by Antonio Conte’s men at Stamford Bridge.

With another international week coming up, many Arsenal Ladies players have been called by their national teams.

After Germany’s 2-0 win over Northern Ireland during their World Cup Qualifier, Shkodran Mustafi, who came on in the 69th minute, hailed their performance.

Real Madrid defender, Raphaël Varane, hailed Laurent Koscielny’s contribution to France’s 1-0 win over the Netherlands on Tuesday night.

Theo Walcott, Alexis Sanchez, Shkodran Mustafi and Mesut Ozil both got minutes for their respective countries on Tuesday evening, while Wojciech Szczesny, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Kieran Gibbs were unused substitutes.

Mesut Ozil has taken to Twitter to reassure worried Arsenal fans that he’s not injured after being substituted off at half time during German’s 2-0 World Cup Qualifier win against Northern Ireland.

It turns out that Laurent Koscielny was actually crucial for France’s one and only goal against the Netherlands on Monday night.