Right now Arsenal are 19 games from all-time status. They don't have to win them all. They may need only repeat their results of the past 19 games: one defeat and 14 wins. At which point Mikel Arteta's Arsenal would become the first English winners of the quadruple.
When Arsenal made Olivia Smith the first 1m player player in the history of women's football, they did not think they were signing a striker. The 21-year-old Canadian had earned a reputation as a busy right-sided winger, the kind that hugs the sideline and takes pleasure in turning full-backs inside out. The fee raised eyebrows in some quarters - after all, Chloe Kelly had seemingly made the right flank spot her own during last season's triumphant Champions League campaign. What could Smith offer that she - or Beth Mead - could not? As simple as it seems, the answer may well be versatility.
