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Walter Broeckx looks at yet another triumph for Arsenal Ladies
Who suffered the most of the defeat on Sunday? Was it the manager? The players? The supporters? Well in fact I think the one who suffered most are… the Arsenal Ladies.
Right on the day that Arsenal suffered their heavy defeat the Arsenal Ladies clinched their 13th title since 1993.
The Arsenal Ladies were formed in 1987 and in their existence of 24 years now they have won 13 league titles, 11 FA cups, 10 Premier league cups and the Uefa Women’s Cup.
This season they also won the FA Cup, and are about to start playing for the league cup of the Super League – victory in which would give them the treble.
Those are staggering figures. And then I leave out the less important titles that they have won. Less important, with all respect of course. Certainly if you think that it took them some 5 years before they could win something for the first time. But since then it has been winning and winning.
The current title is the 8th consecutive title they have won. Despite losing some of their best players a while ago to the better paid North American Women’s leagues Arsenal managed to keep on winning.
But when in some seasons Arsenal just had to step on the field to win the league this time it was a more tensed battle to win it. Arsenal had to travel to Liverpool Ladies and if they wanted to be sure of the title they had to win. They won 1-3 with Rachel Yankey scoring two goals and Kim Little scoring the last goal for Arsenal.
This victory meant that Arsenal won the league with 32 points after 14 games. The Women Super league has 8 teams in the league. 10 wins, 2 draws and 2 lost games was the outcome of the first WSL. Birmingham finished second with 29 points and their fiercest rivals in the last seasons Everton came third with 25 points.
So I feel a bit sorry for the Arsenal Ladies that their achievement went under the radar because our first team did what they did on Sunday.
Even our own Arsenal website is bringing this great performance very low profile. Poor Ladies. But what you have achieved is great for the Ladies and let us just hope that the success may continue in the future.
The Arsenal Ladies celebrate their 25 years in 2012. So let us all hope that their 14th title will be won in that year. Just look at those numbers that is one title in every two years. I hope the male Arsenal players talk a walk to the Ladies and just ask them how they did this. Maybe we could learn a few things from the Ladies.
The season is not over yet for the Arsenal Ladies – even after the end of season Super League Cup. Because at the end of September they will play FC Bobruichanka from Belarus in the Women’s Champions League. And if they can qualify against FC Bobruichanka over the two legs they will go further in the Womens Champions League. So who knows what still is possible for the Ladies.
Well done Arsenal Ladies. Keep on gunning.
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