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(Left to right): Maya Le Tissier of Manchester United, Arsenal’s Stina Blackstenius and the Chelsea manager Emma Hayes. Composite: Guardian design
Women’s Super League: talking points from the weekend’s action
A legend to call time at Chelsea, City’s Gareth Taylor not happy with Jonas Eidevall and pressure mounts for leaky Aston Villa
Suzanne Wrack, Sophie Downey, Morgan Ofori and Emily Keogh Mon 6 Nov 2023 12.52 GMT
Emma Hayes deserves her long Chelsea goodbye The news of Emma Hayes’ departure from Chelsea at the end of the season sent out ripples of shock on Saturday afternoon. Her transformation of the club on and off the pitch in her 11-year spell has placed them at the pinnacle of the women’s game. Her haul of 13 major trophies and countless individual awards illustrates exactly why she is widely regarded as one of the best managers of her generation. She is certainly the most successful in WSL history. It is widely thought that the vacant role as US Women’s National Team manager awaits. A move into international football always seemed inevitable and there are few bigger roles for her to sink her teeth into. For now, however, the fact she gets to say goodbye to Chelsea on her own terms, something rarely seen in football, seems apt. Sophie Downey Emma Hayes is ideal for the USWNT. But she would walk into a pit of vipers Read moreTetchy on the touchline at Meadow Park Arsenal’s victory over Manchester City at Meadow Park saw almost as much action on the sideline as it did on the pitch, with the Gunners’ manager, Jonas Eidevall, and the referee, Rebecca Welch, criticised by the opposition manager, Gareth Taylor, after the final whistle. Taylor felt his team “should have won” and was “feeling a little bit robbed” after his side dominated for stretches but failed to capitalise on their superiority. He also said they should have had a penalty for a push on Khadija Shaw, saying of Welch: “This referee tends to never give us a penalty, always gives penalties against us and I thought there was a clear shove on Bunny [Shaw].” Taylor also hit out at the technical area antics of Eidevall, telling the BBC that the Arsenal manager was “bullying” the fourth official. “That is always the same with him because he is constantly at the fourth official and I think it is bullying,” Taylor said. “I am protecting the fourth official but that’s not my job.” Eidevall had already done his post-match interviews so did not have a chance to respond to the comments. He was not cautioned or spoken to by the referee during the game. Suzanne Wrack. (Source: The Guardian)
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