Morning all. Sometimes it's easy to forget that Arsenal FC have a ladies team, once a very good one too which has won nearly everything on offer in the women's game. One player who has been part of the glory days is Kelly Smith who yesterday announced her retirement from the game. She's not going far though as the club have soon enrolled her on the coaching team. There's no doubting Smith will be regarded as a club legend, after all, the ladies have won twenty major trophies since her arrival in 1996, including a quadruple winning season of 2006–07 in which she scored 30 goals in 34 games in all four competitions. If only the men had a striker of such calibre. Kelly Smith is probably...
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