CLEARLY some football teams are more equal than others. With the Women’s National League declared null and void all the way back in March, the FA decreed this week by virtue of a 'points per game' average that Chelsea be crowned WSL Champions and Aston Villa be promoted from the FA Women's Championship. As for the rest of the women's football pyramid? They get to start 2019 all over again...
THERE WAS a time when a third / fourth playoff at the World Cup wasn’t a “nonsense match” – in England at least. Just five years ago in fact, when the Lionesses won their Bronze medal in Canada. It remains the best World Cup performance by a senior England team since 1966 and represented a symbolic reboot for women's football triggering exponential growth in coverage, investment and uptake at grass roots levels across the country...
TIME TO meet a fully-fledged international female footballer that you may not have seen before. The name Zahra Khajavi may not roll off the tongue of most Western Commentators, but this Iranian goalkeeper is making big waves back home where she has become the international team’s number one at just 21-years old...
WITH THE football authorities announcing that tiers three to seven of women's football have been rendered null and void in England I had a decision to make. Carry on with the AFC Wimbledon Ladies blog? Or abandon it? Well here's your answer. I've seen (and heard) far too much of my kids this week. At least I can hide in the kitchen while I write this...
AS PROMISED here's the second part of D2B's review of the Lionesses' underwhelming SheBelieves Cup performances across the 'pond'. Phil Neville's charges took on the World Cup Winners, Japan and Spain - winning one and losing two, and more worryingly scoring just the single, solitary goal courtesy of Ellen White...
THE FIRST of a two-parter looking at England’s mediocre SheBelieves Cup performance over in the States. The Lionesses have now lost 7 of their last 11 matches and both fans and media are frustrated that team is going backwards...
MANAGER MARTA TEJEDOR, who led Birmingham City to fourth in the WSL last season, was eased out of the door earlier this week by the club, having failed to win a league game or score a single league goal in 2020. But is there clear thinking in this decision, personality issues behind the scenes or just a knee-jerk reaction before the bigger money starts pouring into the women's game?
Beth England scored a dramatic stoppage time winner to give Chelsea Women their first Continental Cup Trophy...
SO, EVERY team in the WSL has reached the halfway point in their fixtures schedule. But how's it looking for the title hopefuls, the also-rans, and the relegation scrappers? We conclude with a look at Manchester United, Reading, Tottenham Hotspur and West Ham United...
SO, EVERY team in the WSL has reached the halfway point in their fixtures schedule. But how's it looking for the title hopefuls, the also-rans, and the relegation scrappers? We continue (alphabetically as always) with a look at Chelsea, Everton, Liverpool and Manchester City...
