Stateside Gooners: An Arsenal FC Show

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On this episode, Eric, Ted (Kevin), and Matt get excited about the squad breaking that loooong winless streak at Anfield.

There were some happy surprises in the starting lineup and a lot of really good performances by the Arsenal players. The match was open for long stretches of the first half and some parts of the second. Liverpool’s MacAllister had a lot of contributions in the match and most of them were not good. Lots of happiness, excitement and laughter on this episode.

The guys have a quick snapshot of the upcoming champions league match against Slavia Prague.

We continue our expected cadence: 1 big number, 2 minute mashup of the rest of the EPL in match week 9, and 3 quick things, plus a bonus stat of the weird for the upcoming match against Slavia Prague.

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What’s your Gooner Origin Story?

Every superhero has an origin story. Every Gooner has one too.

However it happened, we want to hear it. Most people think their story is too ordinary to share. It almost never is. We tell these stories on the show, because the way someone found Arsenal says a lot about why they’ll never leave.

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When did you become a Gooner?

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Who or what got you hooked?

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What moment made it official?

Long or short, polished or rambling, it’s all welcome. Want to tell it in your own voice? Attach a voice memo and you might hear yourself on the show.

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Now that is better

In this episode of the Arsenal Women’s podcast presented by Stateside Gooners, Matt talks about Arsenal’s match against Benfica in the Champions League. Massive performances from a lot of the players in this match especially Alessia Russo who gets her first hat trick of the season. Matt talks about the developing partnership between Ona Batlle and Geraldine Reuteler - it’s the first time they’ve played together and it was quite good. Happy to see the shot funnel on this one. Matt also provides a preview of the WSL match against suprising Aston Villa.

As always we’d love to hear your comments to the episode, fan origin stories, and questions you may have for us. You can leave your comments on Substack, drop us a DM on the Bluesky app on @StatesideGooners, or you can email us at statesidegoonerspod@gmail.com Drop us a question there and we will do our best to answer you.

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Arsenal FC get Carabao Cup snakebit (erm, defeated handily) by EFL League Two club Fleetwood Town. EPL Week 9 Liverpool FC host Arsenal at Anfield.

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Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve heard that Arsenal lost to Fleetwood Town. Did you think it was odd that Fleetwood Town wears red shirt with the white sleeves? Or that they play in “Highbury Stadium”? Was this loss destiny?

On Episode 165, Eric and Matt lament the Max Dowman red card, consider the way Arteta handled it, and express how we would have addressed it.

This is easily the worst loss by a Premier League club in the Carabou Cup, likely in English cup competition history. We’ll tell you why.

One ‘big’ number is a fraction this time. Liverpool gets a match preview and a bonus starting lineup prediction, with a twist? Thanks to injuries, the team essentially picks itself in some areas. We spell out predictions for Week 9 in the Premier League and wind up with 3QTs.

Oh and hey, this is a combined 200 episodes for the Stateside Gooners podcast, 165 for the men and 35 for the women.

As always, share your thoughts on the episode as well as questions. We are always looking for “Gooner Origin Stories” so tell us why YOU are a fan of The Arsenal Football Club. Questions, comments, and your stories may be read on a future episode! Share by email: statesidegoonerspod@gmail.com or post and tag us on Substack @statesidegooners or Bluesky @statesidegooners.bsky.social.

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North London is Red

In this episode of the Arsenal Women’s podcast presented by Stateside Gooners, Matt talks about the North London Derby. Surprising starts from Caitlin Foord and Tailor Hinds. Surprising roles for Olivia Smith and Alesia Russo. Celebrate with the fans! Arsenal’s WSL match against newly promoted side Birmingham City. Matt recaps the WSL action during Match Day 7 and brings everyone up to speed on those results. There is also the matter of previewing the next match, a Champions League affair against Portugal side Benfica.

As always we’d love to hear your comments to the episode, fan origin stories, and questions you may have for us. You can leave your comments on Substack, drop us a DM on the Bluesky app on @StatesideGooners, or you can email us at statesidegoonerspod@gmail.com Drop us a question there and we will do our best to answer you.

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On this episode, Kevin and Matt look back at the match against Everton, it really could have been a problem if a few kicks go Everton’s way. The guys recap the goals and the solid play from the set pieces in the match. Threre was that one Ben White what are you doing moment. Kevin provides the two minute mashup of the rest of the Match Day 8 EPL contests - there were a couple noteworthy results in that batch. Finally, we end the show with a preview of the Fleetwood Town Soda Cup match. Listen to the end to hear some interesting facts about Fleetwood, why they are called the Cods and the biggest manufacturer in Fleetwood - you don’t want to miss it.

You can find Matt’s Top Ten Takes for the Arsenal - Everton match by using this link: https://statesidegooners.substack.com/p/top-ten-arsenal-2-0-everton-epl-week

As always, share your thoughts on the episode as well as questions. We are always looking for “Gooner Origin Stories” so tell us why YOU are a fan of The Arsenal Football Club. Questions, comments, and your stories may be read on a future episode! Share by email: statesidegoonerspod@gmail.com or post and tag us on Substack @statesidegooners or Bluesky @statesidegooners.bsky.social.

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It can and must be better

In this episode of the Arsenal Women’s podcast presented by Stateside Gooners, Matt talks about Arsenal’s WSL match against newly promoted side Birmingham City. Matt talks about the poor shot funnel and Arsenal’s lack of shots on goal. There was the matter of Olivia Smith and her fantastic upper right corner goal and a penalty shout for a rugby tackle on Geraldine Reuteler at the end of the match. It must be better. Matt recaps the WSL action during Match Day 6 and brings everyone up to speed on those results. There is also the matter of previewing Saturday’s match, the London Derby, against Tottenham. Is this the first time the Arsenal women have played at the Loo?

As always we’d love to hear your comments to the episode, fan origin stories, and questions you may have for us. You can leave your comments on Substack, drop us a DM on the Bluesky app on @StatesideGooners, or you can email us at statesidegoonerspod@gmail.com Drop us a question there and we will do our best to answer you.

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A recording by Stateside Gooners about the English Premier League, UEFA Champions League, Bayern Munich, Everton FC, Arsenal FC and lots of laughs

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On this episode, Eric and Matt talk about the fabulous advertisement for football that was the Arsenal - Bayern Munich match. The guys recap the goals and near misses. There is discussion about the assists that set up a couple of goals. You’ll hear about Saka and our speculation about how long the injury will keep him out of action. The match ended up just short of a perfect ending when Timber’s shot in extra time was denied. Great match - this is why you want to compete in the Champions League. Then we preview the Premier League match against Everton at The Emirates and speculate about how much time Max Dowman may get.

As always, share your thoughts on the episode as well as questions. We are always looking for “Gooner Origin Stories” so tell us why YOU are a fan of The Arsenal Football Club. Questions, comments, and your stories may be read on a future episode! Share by email: statesidegoonerspod@gmail.com or post and tag us on Substack @statesidegooners or Bluesky @statesidegooners.bsky.social.

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On this episode, the guys recap The Arsenal’s one-nil to the Arrrr-sen-nil victory over Nottingham Forest at the City Ground. Playing there is always a difficult place for Arsenal. Why aren’t Arsenal scoring goals in the first half or scoring goals from set pieces? A better question for Nottingham Forest fans is when will Forest score a goal at the City Ground? Kevin runs 2-minute Mashup covering the other 8 games from Week 7 (the nasty roosters play Coventry at the Loo on Monday). Of course we preview the road game against Bayern Munich in the Champions League.

As always, share your thoughts on the episode as well as questions. We are always looking for “Gooner Origin Stories” so tell us why YOU are a fan of The Arsenal Football Club. Questions, comments, and your stories may be read on a future episode! Share by email: statesidegoonerspod@gmail.com or post and tag us on Substack @statesidegooners or Bluesky @statesidegooners.bsky.social.

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Somehow, as we’re all trying to sort ourselves and decide how we’ll feel and what we’ll do if Manchester City Cheaters Club get punished what we think is enough, or not. Meanwhile, their manager is out there saying ‘I know nothing.’ If you’re of a certain age, you’ll remember Shultz saying that on Hogan’s Heroes. I think I recall it being highly sarcastic, and that he knew everything but didn’t want to get in trouble or be responsible for not being a tattletale. Feels a little like that with Enzo Maresca. Enough talk about the lying cheating blues. If you haven’t checked out my full analysis of what punishment should look like, you’ll find it in Punished: The Sentence Manchester City Deserves.

On this episode, Eric and Matt cover Arsenal’s Champions League match against Lille. Three really lovely goals and who started the goal scoring? None other than defender Jurrien Timber and his magical right foot. We discuss Saka’s key contribution off the bench. There is a quick rundown of the crazy results in the Champions League. We preview the Nottingham Forest match and the challenges they present. Make sure to listen to the end for the 3 quick things and the big number reveal.

As always, share your thoughts on the episode as well as questions. We continue looking for “Gooner Origin Stories” so tell us why YOU are a fan of The Arsenal Football Club. Questions, comments, and your stories may be read on a future episode! Share by email: statesidegoonerspod@gmail.com or post and tag us on Substack @statesidegooners or Bluesky @statesidegooners.bsky.social.

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Better, Not good enough

In this episode of the Arsenal Women’s podcast presented by Stateside Gooners, Matt talks about Arsenal’s WSL Match Day 5 against the defending WSL champions Manchester City. Matt spends time re-capping the scores of the rest of the WSL for Match Day 5. Then he dives into the encouraging initial 60 minutes put together by Arsenal. What happened for the rest of the match, nothing good. Matt recaps the first block of games talking about the positives and the negatives. Unfortunately there were more negatives than positives in this first block. Too many ties. Matt runs through the dates for the next block of games highlighting a particularly nasty patch of games Barca - London City - Lyon, oof.

As always we’d love to hear your comments to the episode, fan origin stories, and questions you may have for us. You can leave your comments on Substack or via DM on the Bluesky app on @StatesideGooners

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On this episode, Kevin and Matt recap Arsenal’s victory over Leeds in Match Week 6 of the EPL before previewing the Champions League Week 2 game against Lille.

The first 55 minutes of the Leeds game were unworthy of our deepest analysis so we go through it kinda quickly. But we give our full attention spend to the last 35 minutes and extra time because those were exciting!

Lille bring Olivier Giroud, our beloved goal scorer, back to the Emirates to face his former club. Is there anyone expecting anything but a warm welcome? Other than that time in Baku, he’s always been one of our favorites.

We have some fun with Three quick things and end things with this episode’s big number reveal - what is 48 and why does it matter?

As always, share your thoughts on the episode as well as questions. We continue looking for “Gooner Origin Stories” so tell us why YOU are a fan of The Arsenal Football Club. Questions, comments, and your stories may be read on a future episode! Share by email: statesidegoonerspod@gmail.com or post and tag us on Substack @statesidegooners or Bluesky @statesidegooners.bsky.social.

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On this episode, Eric and Matt talk about the upcoming Arsenal - Leeds match on Saturday 10/10 at 7:30 am EST.

Eric and Matt recap the elongated international break that saw a lot of Arsenal players get a lot of minutes, score a lot of goals, make a lot of assists, and come away with a few lasting knocks.

There is talk about the surprising Leeds club who are undefeated in league play and sit in 5th position in the EPL table with 9 points.

This episode’s three quick things ends with a look at the poor start of the Arsenal Women’s season and examines if Coach Slegers can survive.

As always we’d love to hear your comments to the episode, fan origin stories, and questions you may have for us.

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Not a Penalty, it just isn’t

In this episode of the Arsenal Women’s podcast presented by Stateside Gooners, Matt talks about Arsenal’s CL Match Day 2 against Paris FC. Time is spent discussing opinions about the controversial penalty decision that gifted Paris FC with a goal and ultimately with the draw and 1 point in the Champions League group phase. Arsenal showed improvement in this match. I talk about Sleegers sending out the assistant to do the post match presser and why she did that. I also catch you up on the rest of the results from Match Day 2 in the Women’s Champions League. There is also the matter of previewing Sunday’s match against defending WSL champion Manchester City.

As always we’d love to hear your comments to the episode, fan origin stories, and questions you may have for us. You can leave your comments on Substack or via DM on the Bluesky app on @StatesideGooners

5 points, 4 games, another slow start to a season

In this episode of the Arsenal Women’s podcast presented by Stateside Gooners, Matt talks about Arsenal’s WSL Match Day 4 against Chelsea and all the blocked shots, this time the number was 12. The match was really entertaining for the neutrals, but I’m not a neutral, so I was ultimately disappointed with the result. I also catch you up on the rest of the results from Match Day 4 in the WSL. I also have a quick preview of the next match, Champions League match day 2 against a dangerous (and maybe familiar) Paris FC club.

As always we’d love to hear your comments to the episode, fan origin stories, and questions you may have for us. You can leave your comments on Substack or via DM on the Bluesky app on @StatesideGooners

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After three and a half years of waiting, the verdict is reportedly in: Manchester City found guilty on 114 of 115 Premier League charges. Misreported finances, hidden payments to players and managers, broken spending rules at home and in Europe, and 35 counts of refusing to cooperate with the investigation. Nine seasons. Three league titles. One very expensive legal team.

So what happens next? Everything is on the table, and we mean everything.

The other 19 owners have watched City lift trophies for a decade, and they aren’t going to let the league go soft. Clubs could sue for damages. Players who lost titles, bonuses and Champions League money could too.

Could it become one giant class action with every club and every player lining up?

Don’t rule it out.

Then there’s the punishment. How big a points deduction? 60? 600? A forced sale? A ban on selling, leaving the owners stuck with a club that can’t earn? The NBA forced Donald Sterling to sell the Clippers, and the Kroenkes were on the owners’ side of that table. Juventus got relegated (one division, we got this one wrong) and stripped of titles. Rangers started over, four divisions down. (That’s who we were thinking of.) Lance Armstrong lost seven Tour de France titles and nobody got promoted into them. Does City’s trophy cabinet get emptied the same way? And what does it all mean for Pep Guardiola’s legacy?

Here’s a question nobody is asking: if the Premier League relegates City, does the Championship have to take them?

Or could the EFL simply say no thanks?

It’s all unprecedented. The timelines say we should know soon, but the timelines have been wrong every step of the way. And honestly? We’ll take effective over efficient. If getting it right takes longer, and it means the verdict can’t be flipped on appeal, we’ll wait. What we don’t want is a fast resolution that ends in a slap on the wrist.

Pull up a chair. Stateside Gooners break down the biggest scandal in Premier League history.

Three points is three points, take ‘em

In this episode of the Arsenal Women’s podcast presented by Stateside Gooners, Matt talks about Arsenal’s opening match in the CL against HB Koge. The season has opened with frustrating results would this pattern continue in this match? Arsenal made 8 changes to the lineup; would they help? Finally, Matt talks about his thoughts on how to attack a low block.

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Is the WSL gone already?

In this episode of the Arsenal Women’s podcast presented by Stateside Gooners, Matt talks about the week 3 draw against rival Man United. The season has opened with dissappointing results which is such a pattern for the Arsenal women. Arsenal did not bring the intensity to this match and a lot of sterile possession in this match. Does Sleegers have enough time to turn this season around?

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Goal 1: Didn't step out

Goal 2: Didn't step out

Goal 3: 6 Box King was nowhere near the ball

What do you think? Should he carry some fault for any of the goals?

I’ve been wanting to remind everyone to check out The Gooner Hub (Apple Store) and download the app. Gary is a friend of the show, let’s make sure we’re giving him our full support.

Playing the daily quiz has been great. You can make it easy, medium, or hard. Easy is usually no more than one miss, at most. Medium shows me that I’m an Arsenal history B student 6 to 8 of 10 most days. But hard is really hard, I think. I’m usually below 60% and often less than 50%.

That’s why you need to try it out. You will learn a lot about our club, Arsenal FC, and have fun doing it. Help out our friend, Gary. Your support helps him continue to share this fun app. (Coming to Android soon.)

On this episode, Eric, Kevin, and Matt talk about Arsenal’s 4th away trip in 4 matches, this one to the coast, visiting Brighton for match week 5. Find out what the guys think about Brighton’s press and the way Arsenal did not deal with it. Eric asks would Mo Salah or Erling Haaland score the chance Saka had in the 44th minute? Kevin does a run down of the other EPL matches. Finally, what will we do with the next three weeks during the FIFA international break.

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Let's give that a moment of thought.