Blazing Saddlers

MELTDOWN AT WALSALL Ladies as virtually the entire first team is cleared out. A manager resigns; a letter is written; a match is postponed and an entire team of players are looking for a new club...

Spotlight on AFC Wimbledon Ladies – Numero 3…

MATCHES have been coming thick and fast for the AFC Wimbledon ladies as Autumn heads into Winter. With cup matches filling up the schedule and inclement weather already putting paid to some fixtures, it’s been hectic for Kevin Foster and his squad – both on and off the pitch.

Five Matches key to Courage’s Third Consecutive Shield

WE'RE GOING American this week… ahead of the NWSL playoffs we’re reflecting on the North Carolina Courage’s campaign. The ‘Shield’, which is awarded to the team with the best regular season record, has already made its way back to the catchily titled Sahlen’s Stadium at WakeMed Soccer Park – for a third consecutive year. Here, D2B looks at five matches that were central to the Courage retaining their title...

Lacking Roar Power…

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?

Spotlight on AFC Wimbledon Ladies – Episode II

"Attack of the front four". We're back with the AFC Wimbledon Ladies. Now it’s battle stations with the Womble Alliance beginning their season at Ipswich, plus my first visit ever to an FA Women’s National League game, with Cambridge United the visitors to Colston Avenue…

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...

Spotlight on AFC Wimbledon Ladies

THE Women’s National League (FAWNL) kicks off this coming weekend. My club, AFC Wimbledon, has a ladies’ team in Division One South East – effectively the fourth tier of the Women’s pyramid. Recently, first team manager, Kevin Foster, invited me to blog the 2019/20 season. How could I possibly pass this up?...