Stateside Gooners: An Arsenal FC Show

A recording by Stateside Gooners about the USA Group D Round 2 win over Australia and the who, what, when, where, and whatever the ... about the last few days of football.The USA have won Group D without even needing Pulisic, the breakout star of World Cup 2026 is a man named Owen Goal, and somewhere in a parking lot outside the stadium, Alexi Lalas is contemplating his choices. We track every Gunner at the tournament, salute the smaller-nation keepers stealing the show, and savor Thierry Henry and Zlatan running Lalas clean off the Fox desk. The Arsenal are everywhere. COYG.In this episode:USMNT win Group D, 2-0 over Australia with Pulisic rested, their first back-to-back World Cup wins since 1930, and Pochettino's depth looks very real"Owen Goal" leads the Golden Boot with eight, and the USA become the first side ever to cash in own goals in consecutive matchesThe goalkeeper World Cup: Eloy Room's 15-save masterclass for Curaçao, 40-year-old Vozinha holding Spain, and our Arsenal keeper angle with Emi Martínez, Raya, Ryan, and TurnerGunner vs Gunner Watch: Balogun bags two and outshines Mat Ryan, Havertz vs Pepe, Xhaka's stoppage-time penalty, and the big one ahead, Ødegaard trying to crack Saliba on June 26Arsenal scorecard so far: current Gunners on 3 goals and 4 assists, with Havertz and Gyökeres leading the wayThe Lalas saga, from the Zlatan feud to the quiet exile off the main desk, with the perfect Arsenal-trial-reject kickerFeel-good corner: the world falling for American hospitality, plus Iran, Curaçao, and Cabo Verde keeping the underdog dream aliveThe numbers: 2026 is the highest-scoring World Cup in 68 years, red cards already past 2018 and 2022 combined, and why the "record" goals total is a mirage#Arsenal #COYG #Gooners #AFC #StatesideGooners #WorldCup2026 #WorldCup #USMNT #Gunners #ArsenalFC #Pochettino #ThierryHenryListen, follow, and subscribe:Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2OOR2tpTk7CHfvcKVXeWXi • Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/stateside-gooners-an-arsenal-fc-show/id1770798325 • Substack: https://substack.com/@statesidegooners • Bluesky: @statesidegooners.bsky.social • iHeart: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1333-stateside-gooners-an-arse-290131319/

Thank you for tuning in!This is Stateside Gooners with Kevin Gemp.Unscripted chat about what’s happened in the first week, what we liked, who made us happy, surprises, and what’s next.

Thank you for tuning in! We enjoyed having you this season and look forward to giving you World Cup, silly season, preseason, and more between now and next season.Have a great summer everyone!

On this Stateside Gooners, Eric and Matt discuss the Champions League Final against PSG. Losing on penalties is a terrible way to lose the Champions League. Technically, Arsenal were undefeated in the 2025-26 Champions League but did not win the cup. 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 Spotify or Apple Podcasts or through social media on Substack or Bluesky @StatesideGooners.

On this Stateside Gooners, Eric and Matt talk about Arsenal’s manager, Mikel Arteta, and his reaction to winning the Premier League. The guys talk about how special a manager Arsenal have and how he has been curious about improving the team’s weaknesses instead of doubling down on the team’s strengths.  We still can’t believe we’ve won the league. There is no Champions League Final preview in this one. You’ll have to wait until Friday for that one. You will get to hear Matt attempt to say Khvicha Kvaratskhelia. 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 to Eric and Matt on the Bluesky app on @StatesideGooners 

What else do we need to say?Thank you for listening to our pod. You've shared it around with your circle of Gooners. We're on 6 continents and I stopped counting how many countries thanks to you and your mates sharing. That makes us happy.The long wait is ended. The king is dead, long live the king!

On this Arsenal Women’s podcast presented by Stateside Gooners, Matt talks about the last two matches of the 2025-26 season for the women. A season that started with so much momentum and promise with 5 separate competitions and ended with 1 trophy. The Arsenal women’s team said good bye to a couple of club legends this season. Matt discusses the matches, the goals, and talks about the departing legends as well as all the departing players. It sets up an interesting summer. 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 to Eric and Matt on the Bluesky app on @StatesideGooners 

No game review today.We connected and recorded to take a measured view of the 3-0 win over Palace today, the feels for our squad (if any), Dear Leader Webb's astonishing take on THAT VAR decision, and how IFAB will be taking a review of adjudicating corner kicks next season and/or beyond.Of course, we've upped our Fantasy Rotisserie Chicken game by adding more games, upping the points for games, too.We'd appreciate your (preferably positive) review of our pod using your favorite pod platform, and your further generosity to share us with your pub buds so they can enjoy what we're doing, too. Thank you for listening.

On this Arsenal Women’s podcast presented by Stateside Gooners, Matt recaps the week that was in Arsenal women’s football. There are three games to recap and talk about, each deserved their own podcast but life can get in the way. The second leg of the Lyon-Arsenal Women’s CL tie lived up to the hype. Another great advert for the sport. Lyon were really physical and unlike in the first leg, this ref did not call the fouls. Matt shifts to talk about the away matches to Brighton and Aston Villa and the strikingly different Arsenal teams that took the field. This was a trying week where Arsenal were eliminated from the CL and the WSL title, but Arsenal salvaged the week with some stunning goals and a victory that guarantees CL action in 2026-2027. There is a small preview of Wednesday’s WSL match against Everton (come to think of it, I may not have mentioned that Everton are the opponent). This is a must win for me so that Arsenal control their fate to 2nd place in the WSL ahead of Chelsea.  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 to Eric and Matt on the Bluesky app on @StatesideGooners 

<Unedited> I would rather have talked about just the one thing in this episode, but we don’t get paid nothing to talk about less, we talk about more.Does that sound a little bit like a Bilbo Baggins birthday party speech?"I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve”The lineup, the injury, the substitutions, the sub that got subbed, the goal, the foul, VAR, the LMFAO (ahem, PGMOL)… we end up talking about it all. And this time we’re on video. Maybe next time we’ll fix our hair?Thank you for tuning in!

On this episode, Eric and Matt share the absolute joy and excitement of Arsenal qualifying for the Champions League Final (so much fun to write that sentence). Natalie provided audio clips from the match and we’ve spliced that into the episode. We ask and answer the question, “Is Saka back?” We also discuss this newfound lineup mix of technical players surrounding goalscorer Gyokeres. There is not much of a preview of our upcoming match against West Ham on Sunday, but we do talk about the upcoming match. 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 to Eric and Matt on the Bluesky app on @StatesideGooners 

On this episode of Stateside Gooners, Eric and Matt talk about a fun story about a college bar encounter with a Team 115 Charges fan. Special thanks go out to Kevin for his appearance in Episode 132, can’t wait to have him on again. We move on to talk about the Arsenal Full HAM match and how nice it was to see our starting wingers play like we know they can. This match was comfortable with good goals and strong performances. We also talk about what happened on Monday afternoon at the Hill-Dick stadium and the terrific goal scored by Joao Pedro in the Chelsea - Notting HAM Forest match. There is not much of a preview about the second leg of the Champions League semi-final against Athleti, but we are excited to watch this one and see the Emirates stadium.    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 to Eric and Matt on the Bluesky app on @StatesideGooners 

Arsenal draw Atletico in the away leg of the UEFA Champions League Semi-Final. Preview English Premier League Match Week 35 as Arsenal host Fulham at Emirates Stadium. Welcome to Kevin Gemp.Possibly the longest episode ever? Could be, you’ll have to let me know because I’m not checking. I only know I had a great time with Kevin and after you’ve heard his origin story, you’ll know why we probably would like to see him again should (when?) new silverware is won.How do we describe this game? Tale of two halves? Not quite? Finishers better than Starters? I’m not sure. Certainly in the 2H, but 1H was a different story. I got it, tale of PKs or maybe tale of ref/VAR decisions. Yeah, that’s it.Fulham (Full Ham) are up next at the Emirates on Saturday. We give a preview and Kevin adds his prediction to Fantasy Rotisserie Chicken.Thanks for listening. Do the thing. Let us know your thoughts about the episode. Positive comments only, ya’ll. Thanks.