Another amazing trip to England for the girls from Mooncoin Celtic, and the future Ireland goalkeeper from Piltown FC, Sarah Doyle. It was hard to top last year’s trip to both semi–finals of the Women’s Euros, but this was well up there.

It was real treat to see two of the best teams in Europe playing a real top of the table clash for the WSL. Arsenal qualified for the semi-finals of the Champions League during the previous week, but an injury to Ireland captain Katie McCabe seemed to rule her out of this match. Everyone was thrilled to see Katie in the starting 11 and what a game she had.

City went ahead after 5 minutes and were very dominant throughout the first half. Arsenal pulled one back through Frida Maanum on 62 minutes, but it was Katie McCabe who fired Arsenal in front with a fantastic strike from the edge of the box. Katie was named Player of the Match. After doing a lot of interviews on BBC and other platforms Katie took selfies with our girls. Katie and the Arsenal goalkeeper, Sabrina D’Angelo, later signed the girls’ jerseys and match programmes, after they changed to head off for international duty.

@samanthajademiller #Womensfootball Arsenal v Man city bts 👀 #wsl ♬ original sound – Samantha Miller

The match was broadcast live on BBC2 and we managed to get the Mooncoin Celtic flag clearly visible near our fantastic seats close to the halfway line. The famous TikTokker Samantha Miller also recorded a short clip with the girls.

It was great to meet the girls and coaches from Dungarvan FC at the match and to see Irish flags in all corners of the ground.