With season’s end approaching, Ben Gilby rounds another week of action in the top two tiers of Swedish women’s football as champions are decided and the Elitettan’s final promotion spot nears confirmation. DAMALLSVENSKAN: Above: Rosengård celebrate lifting the title. Photo: @fcrosengard Kristianstads’ third place hopes took a major dent after they went down 1-0 atContinue reading “The Swedish Scene”
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Town Take One Point Which Might Have Been Three
Stoke City 1-1 Brighouse Town By John Thompson Above: Ellie Dobson, voted as Brighouse Town’s player of the match. Photo supplied by: Brighouse Town Brighouse Town came away from Stoke City with a point from their FA Women’s National League Northern Premier clash, but in reality should have grabbed all three. Town will be utterlyContinue reading “Town Take One Point Which Might Have Been Three”
Scottish Women’s Football Receives £100,000 Funding Boost
The Scottish Football Partnership Trust pictured here at Hampden Park today with a cheque for £100,000. Photo supplied by: Scottish Women’s Football. An anonymous benefactor has donated a further £100,000 to The Scottish Football Partnership Trust (SFP Trust) in support of Scottish Women’s Football (SWF). This donation will help strengthen the infrastructure and capacity of SWFContinue reading “Scottish Women’s Football Receives £100,000 Funding Boost”
Eastern Region Premier and London & SE Premier Round-Up
Darrell Allen looks at all of the action in two of the tier five divisions from yesterday. Above: Wroxham’s Holly Walker gets a shot away against King’s Lynn Town yesterday. Photo: Ben Gilby. After an exciting two opening weekends, the final Sunday of August saw a dramatic day in the Eastern Region Premier with fiveContinue reading “Eastern Region Premier and London & SE Premier Round-Up”
More Key Signings in the W-League
Overnight news from the W-League with Brisbane Roar, Newcastle Jets and Western Sydney Wanderers all announcing exciting additions to their squads. Above: Mariel Hecher celebrates with Tameka Yallop for Brisbane Roar last season. Photo: W-League. Brisbane Roar have announced the re-signing of highly talented attacker Mariel Hecher for a second season in orange. The Brazilian-bornContinue reading “More Key Signings in the W-League”
Things Have To Change
Above: Team GB taking the knee at the Tokyo Olympic Games. Photo: Getty Images Catherine Paquette observes that football still has a long way to go before it gets rid of its racist, ableist, xenophobic, sexist, and homophobic problems. At the end of this week, a released PFA report on social media abuse was then followedContinue reading “Things Have To Change”
A Game To Showcase Talent And Depth
Netherlands 3-3 Brazil By Abi Ticehurst Above – Brazil celebrate. Photo: @oranjevrouwen If you’ve ever watched Marta play, you’ll know she scores goals…and lots of them. And yet during the opening minutes of their second game of the tournament she sat incredibly defensively just left of Tamires. Proof enough of her workhorse rate down the leftContinue reading “A Game To Showcase Talent And Depth”
Swedes’ Superior Organisation & Ruthlessness The Difference
Sweden 4-2 Australia By Ben Gilby Sweden reinforced their status as many people’s new favourites for the Gold Medal with a ruthless victory over Australia this morning (Stina Blackstenius pictured scoring their fourth goal via The Guardian). The major news pre-game was that Sweden welcomed back Magda Eriksson after she was forced to leave theContinue reading “Swedes’ Superior Organisation & Ruthlessness The Difference”
Olympics Group E Round-Up
Catherine Paquette reviews all the action in Group E at the Olympics and looks ahead to tomorrow’s second round of action in the group. Group E at the Olympic women’s football tournament contains Japan, Canada, Chile and Great Britain. The group got underway with the clash between Great Britain and Chile (pictured above – Ellen White and StephContinue reading “Olympics Group E Round-Up”
Playtime is Over, It’s Time For The Games To Begin
By Kieran Yap Australia lost for the fifth straight time in a row against Japan earlier this week in their final warm up game before the Olympics (pictured above via Getty Images), but Tony Gustavsson has remained consistent in his messaging that the results do not matter. He has maintained from the first game ofContinue reading “Playtime is Over, It’s Time For The Games To Begin”
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