Phil Neville’s Lionesses hadn’t tasted victory since the quarter final match of the World Cup, until Portuguese keeper, Patricia Morais, allowed a perfectly catchable cross to slip through her grasp, giving Beth Mead licence to convert from a quarter of a yard. Plenty of supporters are now discussing whether the Head Coach should go, and a few senior players are coming in for some criticism as well. But what did D2B take from the international break?
Category: Opinion
Played in Chelsea
Our first ever FA Women’s Super League match. Top-flight footy? Chelsea versus WSL debutants Tottenham Hotspur? At Stamford Bridge? Free tickets? Even the wife got on board with that and she can’t stand football!
FAWSL Preview 2019/20 – Part Three
THE BARCLAY'S FAWSL kicks off on the 7th Sept. In this the final preview, we look at how Manchester United, Reading, Tottenham Hotspur and West Ham United are shaping up...
FAWSL 2019/20 Preview – Part Two
THE BARCLAYS FAWSL kicks off on the 7th September. In this the second of three previews, we look at how Chelsea, Everton, Liverpool and Manchester City are shaping up...
FAWSL 2019/20 Preview – Part One
THE BARCLAY'S FAWSL kicks off on the 7th September. In the first of three previews we look at how Arsenal, Birmingham City, Brighton and Bristol City are shaping up...
Everything you’re streaming of…
KELLY SIMMONS, the Football Association’s Director of the Women’s Professional Game, has announced that the FA is launching an online streaming platform dedicated to women’s football from the start of the forthcoming 2019-20 season...
The good, the bad and the clueless…
LOOKING at the rapidly developing world of women’s football by bringing you some of the good new stories doing the rounds and, occasionally, offering tales you have to squint at between your fingers, or view from an even safer place, behind the sofa perhaps…
After the Lady Mayoress’s Show…
TWO WEEKS is a long time in professional sport, or so it seems. Megan Rapinoe et al held aloft the Women’s World Cup trophy in France on July 7th, set it down on a first-class plane seat (probably) and began their cross-nation ‘celebrate-a-thon’, complete with multiple media commitments to address pay equality, gay rights and Mesut Ozil’s hair style. Meanwhile, the world kept spinning, and a whole host of British sporting successes lined up to push Women’s football back towards the shadows...
FIFA Women’s World Cup Day 30:
SWEDEN took the bronze medal match in Nice, despatching England with a ruthless opening half hour in which they struck twice; then doggedly defending out the remainder of the game. Kosovare Asllani got the scoring under way on 11 minutes driving past Carly Telford following a poor defensive clearance. Sofia Jakobsson then added a second, cutting in from the left and curling past the England keeper. Fran Kirby halved the deficit on 31 minutes, and Ellen White had a goal ruled out by VAR for handball shortly after...
FIFA Women’s World Cup – Top Performers (Group Stages)
So, we’ve come to the end of the group stages at the FIFA Women’s World Cup. Who seems to be enjoying themselves? Who’s stood out so far? Here’s one take on some of the stand-out performers so far in the competition, built into a fictional starting eleven. There are also some 'shout outs' to players who would be vying for a place on the bench of this round one Super-team.
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