Arsenal win Women’s Champions League in final glory and dethrone Barcelona
Euphoria. Complete and utter euphoria. Stina Blackstenius’s second-half goal stunned the three-time European champions Barcelona to deliver Arsenal’s second European title. On the final whistle it was red and white pandemonium as stunned Gunners seemed to not know what to do with themselves.
Arsenal got as close as they could to bottling history and feeding it to the players in the buildup: there was a lunch with the 2007 European champions, notes from fans, staff and the community were pinned to a wall for them to peruse before their flight, and emotion-packed videos of who they are, where they have been and the shoulders they stand on set the tone.
