Tonight’s World Cup qualifier in Nijmegen could feature six Arsenal players with Ireland’s Gunners pair Louise Quinn and Katie McCabe hoping to have the measure of their Dutch comrades. It’s a good thing then that four of the Dutch players, three definite starters, are familiar to a couple of Irish mainstays. Captain Katie McCabe maintained a long Irish tradition at Arsenal by joining in December 2015 while Quinn was offered a deal in May after her club, Notts County, withdrew from the English league. Quinn is the sole Irish representative at Arsenal at present, as 21-year-old McCabe is just about to return from a loan stint at Glasgow City. “All four of the Dutch players at Arsenal are class acts,” said Quinn, who will win her 60th cap tonight.

Source: Irish Examiner November 28, 2017 00:00 UTC