Let's take the girl out of Twmcat's thread - she deserves to have her own one


As we already know, Lianne has won the Player of the Month Award for January 2006

Here's an article from The Guardian:





* Twm! We're gonna be there!

Can life get better - seeing a game at Highbury and Lianne get her award

I'll bring a glass to share the champers with her

Lianne accepted her award but did not share the champagne with anyone (at least not on the pitch)

I will not say who but someone's comment to my photos above was:
"Did she think the bottle would break if she smiled?"


Anyway here is an interview with Lianne Sanderson about Sunday's League Cup Final. Enjoy!

Nice pics of Lianne. I had my camera at that game but I do not sit in the East Stand so I was not able to take any good pics of Lianne getting the champagne from David Dein.

Alex Scott in the interview for The Arsenal Official Magazine:

- Can you tell us one thing about a team-mate we don't already know?

- Lianne Sanderson and her boyfriend Phil think they are the next Posh and Becks.

What do you think of Li's new hair-style then?

COOL!

Lianne's website

www.liannesanderson.co.uk

The photo gallery is good

Never seen her smile so often

She only smiles at her friends and during photo sessions
- never at little people like us *sniff*

She does say hello to me after games

Yeah she said hello to me in Umea as well
but I think it's because she misheard me
and thought I said hello first but in fact I said something else
She looked shocked too
Never mind, hello Lianne

Which was?

what did you tell her ?

AS shouted "cheer up you misrable sod and smile - if you keep frowning the wind might change and you'll stay that way!"

"oh wait that must have already happened!"

But she said it that quickly that Sanderson thought she said Hello

LMAO!

Agent Smith must speak very quickly




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AS does not speak very loud

Yup, very quickly indeed

Nonsense shlj, I speak just as loud as it's necessary

Anyway, what I said:
Li was carrying a 24-pack of drinks for the team
(probably nicked them from UIK's lockers)
and I said something like "Wow that's a lot"
- I think she only heard the "a lot" part and took it as "hello"
- it was quite noisy there and she didn't expect me to talk to her
which I wasn't anyway
But she looked at me like this: when she said that hello
Well... that's Lianne

She said hello, you are right to me ? like most of the time

From Arsenal.com

When Lianne Sanderson set herself a target of 50 goals at the start of the season , she kept it a secret. Understandably , the England star didn't want any flak if she failed to scale those dizzy heights.

She needn't have worried. Sanderson reached her half century as long ago as April 16 in the County Cup Final win against Millwall and , after the rarity of two games without a goal , has since taken her tally to 52. Not bad for someone who was still a teenager at the start of February.

Sanderson's most recent strike came in a rather more prestigious Final as Arsenal LAdies beat Leeds 4-1 to lift the FA Cup on Monday. She had already set up one goal for Jayne Ludlow before finding the net in the second half. Of all the goals she has plundered this season , it was arguably the most special.

" It was an FA Cup Final and obviously it's a dream as a youngster to score in one of them , " Sanderson told Arsenal.com. " I've been fortunate enough to score in two now but obviously I got an assist as well and that is just as good , setting up Jayne for her goal.

We should of have scored in the first half but we knew that if we were patient the goals would come and they did. We had a lack of composure in the first half but ( manager ) Vic ( Akers ) told us to keep going , we were playing well and passing well. We knew that when we scored one we put them to bed.

" I set myself the target of 50 goals before I started the season but I kept it to myself because I thought i'd shoot myself in the foot if I told anyone. But fortunately I was able to reach that. It was only a personal goal of mine but for the team to play well and win is most important ".

Monday's comprehensive win secured a domestic double for the ladies. This season has not lived up to last year's quadruple success but , after a gruelling World Cup experience , another clean sweep could hardly be expected. Sanderson thinks Arsenal will be better equipped to challenge in Europe next season.

" I said before the season that it would feel like a failure if we only won two trophies but it doesn't feel like that now ", she said. " We still won the double and even though we went out of the Uefa Cup early on we came back well.

[b]" But those European games are the kind of games you want to be involved with. The Uefa Cup is the pinnacle of our careers so hopefully we can win it again next year "

If Sanderson can maintain her incredible scoring standards , Arsenal will have every chance.


Hope Powell should take notice , 51 goals for her club this season and Aluko is not even in double figures.

Well Lianne has had a magnificent season 51 goals to date and does not seem to have suffered from the WC hangover as she has missed like 1 game in the season. She has also played a lot more game than the previous one the CF position rather than on the wing or behind the main striker.
her shooting accuracy, capacity to hold the ball , release players in the opened space and will to win have been incredible for the whole season.

Yet she still isn't starting regularly for England , which as it turns out has suited Arsenal with the form she has shown.