i am SOOOO excited about 2moro!!!

im going to the Arsenal vs frankfurt match and its gonna be ace. i mean there's half the england team playing for Arsenal and half the german team playing for frankfurt...... however i assure you i will probably be screaming "down with the germans" every 5 minutes

anyone else going??

i'll write up a bit of match report 'thru my eyes' when i get back from london (although it may be SLIGHTLY biased in favour of Arsenal and will probably involve some slagging off of the germans and the referee!)

and if Arsenal somehow lose then i may be inconsolable and therefore unable to type

but thats not gonna happen........... i hope

just got back from london!!!

it was ace!!

althought i thought we deserved to win 2-1.... not that im at all biased

anyway i spent the match rotating my chants of:

'come on Arsenal'
'down with the germans'
'referee you're crap'
'how much did you pay the referee frankfurt?'
'why the hell have we got a french referee, everyone knows the french hate us'
'come on kelly/faye/rach/alex etc'

there was hardly anyone making as much noise as i was, im proud to say, and my banner was held high!!

the ref was rubbish, gave us about 2 decisions all match, at which point the crowd would cheer extremely sarcastically!

birgit prinz kept on trying to injure our players and lingor (i think it was her) was being a right drama queen and screaming in pain anytime anyone went near her (then ran back on the pitch as right as rain)

the girls played well tho and dug really deep and just kept on running. they were all fab, esp kelly, mary, yanks, lianne & alex. love em!!

and in her usual style kelly was getting a tad bit stressed and resorted to what looked like rugby tackling the germans at every opportunity and mouthing off at the ref (which got her booked). i love it!! god knows how she didnt get sent off but im not complaining! altho she appeared remarkably calmer after the match!!

the ref was rubbish (have i mentioned that????). she gave frankfurt loads of free kicks when we hardly touched them, yet she let their players assault ours!!!! bloody french.

i considered getting birgit prinz's autograph (as seen as she is world womens footballer of the year, or whatever it is) but then decided that i wouldn't cos she's german and we didn't beat them....... and i don't even want it anyway... 'down with the germans!'

i've now nearly lost my voice from screaming so much abuse at the germans and the referee (but managed to have enuf of it left to talk to kelly after the match)

im totally knackered from getting up at 7am and travelling all day.... but it was definitely worth it!!

so i'll be attached to my laptop next week, desperately trying to find out the 2nd leg score, listening to radio 5 live in the hope that they might actually mention the match and i'll probably be stressing myself senseless!!!

come on Arsenal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
good luck for next week!!!!!!!

I too was at the game just about got their with minutes to spare after I over slept. I'm not much for the french think there a nation of whingers so it didn't surprise me with the ref, english teams always get the raw deal espcially when it's germany as they would prefer to see them go through but I'm not saying the ref was doing anything along those lines. It was a good game but my heart was in my mouth after Kelly got booked as she is one player you dont want to lose espcially as we dont have fleets back yet. Thought byrne did good in goal and what a shame for sanderon who could of given us the edge in the latter stages of the game. Lets hope the girls do good in germany I know they'll give it there all , but I expect the germans will try and cheat they way to a win if things aren't gpoing there way.

Fantastic match report there, and thank you both for posting it for us. So predictions for the 2nd leg then

And you look like an angel in your photo Katie, bet you are a totally different person when shouting from the stands

Ahhhh - An angel!

How sweet O Dogg!

So what was the score - 2-1?

oops!!!! i left out possibly the most important bit of info there!!!!!

it was 1-1.

lianne sanderson scored for us

xx

and yeah im no angel in the stands at a footy match in was giving the ref sooooooo much abuse!!

i'm really nervous about last week but after seeing them play i think we can do it. kinda depends on a few things.............. like whther the ref is french or not for example!!!! (seriously she was rubbish. i was like the only person shouting anything in the first half but in the 2nd half everyone got so annoyed by the ref that men and women of all ages were having a go at her)

so i hope we win next week, im thinking 1-2 (agg 2-3)

fingers and toes and everything else crossed!!

xx

Good luck!

yey for the guardian newspaper for reporting on trhe match!!!

http://football.guardian.co.uk/womensfootball/story/0,12783,1588555,00.html

i'm proud to be a guardian reader, love em!!

yeah great match report there Katie , lets hope the ladies can get the result they need over there . Come on Arsenal ladies !!

cheers mate!!

thought i'd give an 'alternative' match report to all the official ones that the bbc/fa/guardian did!!

sorry it was so long tho guys!!

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Hi Kate.

Do you play for Arsenal?

I am lucky enough to have Kelly Smiths brother playing for my boyfs footy team and ive seen her down there twice this month.
I also know Lisa Burrows, who played Arsenal, think shes gone Fulham now though.

god no!!! if only i was that good!! im just a supporter

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ohmygod im currently crapping myself!!

im so nervous about the 2nd leg, im counting down to kick off.

its chuffing awful not being there and just having to sit here, not having a clue whats going on

COME ON Arsenal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

omg, omg, omg

i can't cope!!!!!

i should have gone to germany, i can't stand being st here not knowing whats happening!!

nervous wreck alert!!!

been checking every women's football site for the past 3 hours.......

frankfurt 3 Arsenal ladies 1

we lost 4-2 on aggregate.

im completely gutted, and currently in tears.


most of all gutted for the girls themselves cos they worked their arses off last week and i know they will have today.

i f@#king hate the germans.

not been a good day for a Arsenal really!! but then i'm a Man Utd fan!! but i did want Arsenal ladies to beat frankfurt, i mean they are representing england!!

thats such a shame for the Arsenal ladies , damn germans again. It has not been a good day for Arsenal fans and i just have to hope we can do well on tuesday in Europe.

just seen on a website that faye white was stretchered off during the game, a twisted knee i think.

hope its not too serious and not long term. she's such a key player and it'll be awful to lose our captain, esp when the germans have injured her.

gutted, hope she's ok

Just heard the result ( been away ) Gutted!! When you lose 2 of your best players it's gonna be an up hill struggle but the girls done good to get this far. I suppose the germans are gonna go on an win it now , cant anyone beat them. Lets hope we win the league and can go all the way to the final next year.

yeah!!!

i like your spirit twister, we're just gonna have to win the league, and both cups and show em what we're made of!!

Too right katie and hopefully we'll play Charlton in both cups and thrash em again .

that would be two Arsenal captains out with Thierry Henry still injured.

yeah!!!

come on Arsenal ladies!!!!

they're playing charlton in the league on thurs... really wanted to go but what with it being an evening kick off i risk getting a train from london to bristol and then being stuck at bristol station for something like 7 hours, waiting for the early morning train to swansea.

......and i'd have to miss a couple of days of uni

so i'm not going.

but hopefully the other fixture against charlton will be on a weekend, cos i'd love to see us beat them (and i kinda wanna see katie chapman play cos i think she's fab - am i allowed to say that as an Arsenal ladies fan??!! ...........as long as she doesn't hurt any of our players with her crunching tackling tho!)

Katie do u suppot a mens team or is it just the Arsenal ladies u support

i was brought up to support leeds utd as i was born in leeds but i can hardly call myself a real supporter anymore cos most of the time i don't have a clue whats going on!

since i moved to swansea for uni i haven't been able to go to any matches (apart from the odd one in the holidays) cos it sometimes takes upto 8 hours to get back up north on the train!

and since they dropped out of the premiership they're just not on tv anymore so i can't even see them on match of the day. (i guess i could watch the championship on a sunday morning but im usually not conscious at half 9am at the weekend!)

i still take an interest and love em to bits but my support is a bit limited cos of my location and the fact that they're in the championship now. i wish i could be as involved as i used to (i cried for like 3 hours when we got relegated!)

but now i go see Arsenal cos its easier to get to and they've got so many internationals that its amazing! (i always give a 'come on jayne, yeah wales yeah!' shout if she's playing!)

xx