Stateside Gooners: An Arsenal FC Show

How does an average 'new American soccer fan' feel about this World Cup and the performance of the USA Men's National Team? Well, we've got Jack Morton here to break it down for us in his way and I think he speaks for many of us, not just the newbies. Let's take a look at what happened in the Round of 16 in a fun and possibly slightly comical way, as we do at Stateside Gooners....

Thank you for tuning in! We look at a professional’s best 11 and more and compare it to Gabby Marcotti’s and decide who we like and don’t. Give us your thoughts in the comments. We both predict games across the next round with Kevin being (generally historically correct) more conservative, while I went hog wild with a few 4, 5, and 6 goal games. Subscribe now 👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻 That’...

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 Gu...

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 Spot...

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 thi...

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 le...

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 fo...

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 r...

<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...

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...

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 g...

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...

In a game that was closer than it could have been, but for the fact that whenever Arsenal score, we retreat. (?) 3 points won is what we got and it's exactly what we needed and wanted... Atletico Madrid up next at the Riyadh Air Metropolitano Stadium. That's 70,000 fairly rabid Atleti supporters that will whistle so much my wife will beg me to turn the sound off. How will that affect our p...

On this Arsenal Women’s podcast presented by Stateside Gooners, Matt talks about the “great advertisement” for football that was the first leg of the Women’s Champions League semifinal match between the Arsenal women against Lyon. This was a match full of strong pressing from both sides, entertaining style, and an Arsenal victory. Great news from Saturday’s WSL results with league leader Mancheste...

A long time ago, in a childhood far away, my kids watched iCarly. The kids on the program had a habit of dancing at random times every few episodes. It was the best part of the show for me. On this episode, Sweets and Scooter take a break from Arsenal’s title aspirations to have a look at their Bluesky feed and find some interesting stories. Stateside Gooners Bluesky There is also discussion about...

On this episode, Eric and Matt recap the encouraging match against a team that has 115 premier league charges pending for about 2 years (and still no verdict). But we digress. It was a match filled with opportunity for both Arsenal and individual Arsenal players to become legends at the club. It was not to be though as Arsenal were defeated by the unstoppable force that is Team 115 Charges. Eric t...

If you haven't watched the Emirates (second leg) of the Champions League Quarterfinal... maybe don't? The 0-0 draw was almost as boring as that sounds. The better parts of the game were shots off goal, and most of those by Sporting. Ok. Team 115 Charges. It isn't winner take all, but it is for most of the marbles. There will still be 5 games remaining for Arsenal and 6 for the Sky Blue...

How many times to we have to have our hearts broken? I don’t want to know. Technically we still have the control of the title race in our own hands. The magic number is 16. That’s the number of points that a combined total of Arsenal points won and Team 115 Charges dropped mean the title is won. Don’t count the title won until that happens. Anything but a win means we’re out of control of our own...

If you like boring and you like 1-0 wins, this was and wasn't that, wasn't it? Haha. I was very bored and I was very happy at the end. 'Nuff said. We won. On to London and to Bournemouth. Let's talk about that, and try and count up the points in Fantasy Rotisserie Chicken. Come on you Gunners!

On this Arsenal Women’s podcast presented by Stateside Gooners, Matt talks about the strong defensive performance by Arsenal in the second leg of the UCL against Chelsea, a good offense also helps defensive performance. The match had its moments and the last 25 minutes of the match are definitely worth a re-watch now that Arsenal have moved onto the semi-finals against… Lyon (We’ve seen this befor...

Winning is good. Losing is bad. Or does this loss turn out to be good? Losing on either side of the International Break (you remember ... it's when most of our guys withdrew and the world made a big deal of it) wasn't great, but let's bet on this to be a big help to go out and win the league. For me, the Champions League is a bonus, and brings prestige, but the league is our first priority. Share...

On this Arsenal Women’s podcast presented by Stateside Gooners, Matt talks about the offensive outburst by Arsenal against TottenHAM. It wasn’t all good news with Arsenal conceding goals in a WSL match for the first time in 2026. Its all about the hat tricks listeners.  Matt previews the second leg of the Champions League QF tie against Chelsea women. Chelsea may have some players returning for th...