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## Katie McCabe: ‘Being passionate is who I am – if I take that away, I wouldn’t be Katie McCabe’
Katie McCabe is enjoying a rich vein of form for Arsenal, consistently driving forward from left-back to regularly overlap and exercise her attacking threat.
McCabe’s qualities are frequently enough overlooked or dampened down, the 30-year-old’s reputation for being fiery on the pitch often dominating discourse around her. She has the most yellow cards in Women’s Super League history, the highest number in a season and often plays on a tightrope, physicality a key part of her game.
“I don’t have control over how people describe me,” McCabe says.”What I can say is that I’m very passionate, I want to win and I’ll always work hard. I wear my heart on my sleeve with that and I always give it 100%. I hear so much narrative around the way I am. But, for me, I’m doing my job. You’re constantly looking to find that perfect level of performance and,yes,with the emotions of the game or when decisions don’t go your way that can spill over sometimes. But, being passionate is who I am and if I take that away then I wouldn’t be Katie McCabe.”
The next challenge is the team,who host Aston Villa in the FA Cup fourth round on Sunday,January 21st,2024,finding consistency. Five draws in the league,including a frustrating 0-0 from a dominant performance against Manchester United in their first game back after the winter break,have left Arsenal in fourth place,7 points off the leaders,Manchester City as of January 18,2024. On Wednesday night they welcome Manchester United to borehamwood for a League Cup semi-final.
“there’s been a couple of results that haven’t gone our way,” says McCabe, who has been with the club for over a decade and credits it with being a big part of who she is today. “But the positive that we’ve tried to focus on is that