Arsenal having to maneuver their Ladies’s Champions League from Emirates Stadium due to a fixture conflict with the boys’s facet is “disappointing” however was “sure to occur” in some unspecified time in the future, says former Gunners defender Jen Beattie.
They are going to now play their high-profile match in opposition to Bayern Munich on 18 December at Meadow Park in Borehamwood.
Mikel Arteta’s facet have an EFL Cup quarter-final in opposition to Crystal Palace on the identical date, and it couldn’t be moved as a result of the Eagles have televised Premier League matches on the earlier Sunday and the next Saturday.
Talking on the Ladies’s Soccer Weekly podcast, Beattie stated: “There’s little doubt it’s disappointing however I knew there was all the time going to be a calendar conflict in some unspecified time in the future.
“We might perhaps be a bit naive to assume there was by no means going to be. Champions League fixtures don’t get put in till fairly final minute.
“It’s disappointing, the followers shall be gutted, particularly those that purchased tickets to go to that recreation. It is going to change the environment but it surely’s not going to vary the sport. It’ll simply change the expertise and the spectacle of it.”
Beattie says the membership, which had promised to play all of the staff’s European fixtures on the membership’s predominant stadium, want to have a look at the way it occurred and the way they’ll repair it going forwards.
“I actually imagine it’s a one-off. I don’t assume it’s actually anybody’s fault. It’d really feel like going backwards a bit but it surely’s brief time period.
“It’s not a nasty resolution going again to Borehamwood, it’s been there house for thus a few years. They’re snug there.”
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