It has been four months since Arsenal won the Women’s Champions League final, and it almost feels too late to congratulate Steph Catley. “Oh no,” she says. “I will accept all of those congratulations.”

Catley understands four months isn’t a long time in relative terms. She probably hasn’t sat down and calculated that four months goes 54 times into 18 years, which is how long ago the team last won the prestigious continental trophy.

But the incumbent Matildas captain has met members of the celebrated 2006-07 squad which claimed that unprecedented quadruple (Arsenal remain the only English club to win the WCL). And she has been at the club long enough to have come as close as a semi-final, and also as far away as being knocked out in the first qualifying round – a salty seasoning no fresh

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