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Cut your bangs, it’s chaos season. Emily Olsen here with Tamerra Griffin, Melanie Anzidei and Meg Linehan — welcome to Full Time!
Never question the chaos
If the NWSL was a person, it’d be that one friend who finds joy in keeping the people around them on their toes. Tease them for being too afraid to cut their hair, and their next Instagram post will be a selfie from a barber’s chair, holding a tube of semi-permanent dye. You know the kind.
This weekend the NWSL saw the hand-wringing — some of it on the latest “Full Time” podcast, to be fair — about the crystallizing of an Elite Four and the other eight teams being left to the spots beneath them, and shrugged, “Say less.” Our bad!
- Gotham FC had a roller-coaster week, which included a 4-1 spanking by the Portland Thorns on Tuesday night, followed by a vengeful 3-0 dub over the Washington Spirit on Saturday afternoon.
- Angel City FC had a revival, nearly beating Orlando Pride a week after a 4-0 loss to Gotham. The reigning league champion Pride were about 20 minutes away from their second consecutive loss of the season before Marta redirected the tides and Carson…
