Gotham FC

Yeah.

Uh, I, Dave, I'm a little punchy cause I spent a large part of the weekend at inner.co stadium, uh, including several hours on Sunday, watching the Orlando prides home finale against NJ, NY Gotham, FC elemental.

Are

they still officially called that?

for Jersey.

Yeah.

Anyway, um, David ended in a 2-1 Gotham win.

Can you remind our listeners what we thought that the final score was going to be when we made our predictions?

So the starter is the Shield is still up for grabs.

Gotham sits three points ahead of San Diego with one better goal differential.

So the tiebreakers in NWSL is goal differential, total wins, goals scored, and then head-to-head.

I would be shocked if we got that far.

But so that's why we are going to continue to talk about goal differential because if you are tied on points, the first tiebreaker becomes goal differential.

So if Gotham were to lose and San Diego were to win, it doesn't even matter the scoreline.

San Diego are going to win the Shield in 2026.

Any result for Gotham clinches their spot.

And at the same time, we try to separate what we see from players every single day and their contributions in NWSL performance.

for gotham fc from um from things that are really largely out of all of our control so i'd say you know it's not a simple answer to your question all of these things do matter and usually i'd say our players getting recognized for awards like this are also a byproduct of their performance on the team which increases their value as well so it's all you know we look at it all holistically

That makes sense.

And some of my favorite answers are the least simple ones.

And yeah, the points ended up being shed and lost.

That would be a big blow for San Diego because it's now three points the gap between themselves and Gotham so they can still technically win the Shield but it's definitely in the favour of Gotham FC now.

Yeah, and look, if you have anything, San Diego fans, if there are any listening, you can blame me because after the piece that I wrote last week, I did predict San Diego way to actually win the shield.

So it's probably on me on this.

Which is so funny because they

want the rivalry between Boston and New York.

All the Gotham fans are in the comments like, I can't believe I'm cheering for a Boston team, but here we are.

It's so funny.

So bit of a trick for them and the fans.

Speaking of the shield, Kelly, this is kind of a spooky thought.

There's only one shield, right? So next weekend, will they just leave the shield? I'm assuming in the WSL offices in New York.

Oh my gosh.

Arsenal, Ford, Catley, Hooney Cross, should they still be playing at the club, of course.

Gotham FC are in with Sam Kerr there.

Barcelona, Club America, Corinthians.

And from the AFC, Naegu Hyung of North Korea and Wuhan Jiangda.

And I think those solo sports have been so strong for so long that I think maybe just the team sports need to be kind of caught up with that.

And we're seeing that in America now with the women's franchise leagues over there and the investment Gotham City and stuff like that.

And Michelle... excuse me, Michelle Kang, the serial investor London City Lionesses.

And she's kind of trying to make this a thing.