Eidevall hopes Women’s FA Cup final will see luck land on Arsenal’s side | Suzanne Wrack

Swedish coach’s side edged Chelsea in WSL encounter and leans into superstitions to try to land trophy on Sunday

Jonas Eidevall has just given away his biggest superstition two days from his first FA Cup final, at Wembley against Emma Hayes’s Chelsea. “If Emma sees this she will probably buy a thousand black cats with the money Chelsea have and send them all over our ground,” Arsenal’s manager says. “I’m going to be invaded by black cats.”

It is said with a big laugh but Eidevall has not finished. “I don’t let any black cats cross my way, ever – I don’t harm any black cats either, it’s important to say. But I have sometimes driven around, rerouting for a couple of miles, just to not cross a black cat. You feel a little bit silly when you’re doing it.”