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In recent years Women’s football has generated insurmountable momentum as the beautiful game seeks to expand its horizons. The FA has shown its clear backing of the women’s game by doubling the prize fund for this years Women’s FA Cup to six million pounds which will greatly improve teams’ opportunities to afford better facilities, massively […]
Friday, November 10 Cheltenham Town Ladies’ Development team captain Olivia Plumpton shared her insight as the head of a female football squad, recognising the disadvantage to male teams and the importance of motivating her group. During her earlier stages of playing football, it was clear to Plumpton that the girls set up would be at […]
West Brom Women will kick off their Women’s FA Cup campaign at home to Lye Town Ladies at the Academy Ground on Sunday afternoon. West Brom will be looking to regain some positive form after back-to-back losses in the previous two weeks. The Baggies have experienced a mixed bag of results in the opening three […]
Former Cheltenham Town star Alfie May has been named the League One Player of the Month for October. Seven goals in six games this month has seen May leapfrog the likes of Colby Bishop and Jordan Rhodes to sit joint-top of the league’s scoring charts with 11 goals. The 30-year-old talisman moved from Cheltenham to […]
Manchester United manager, Marc Skinner, states “this is a game you have to earn” as he doesn’t dismiss the potential ninth-place Brighton and Hove Albion bring this Sunday. The Red Devils find themselves facing one of their longest away games in the league, as they head to the home of The Seagulls, Broadfield Stadium, and […]
This season Forest Green Rovers Women have looked a shadow of themselves compared to how they were playing last year. They have already lost the same number of games as they did last year and we’re only seven games into the season. Forest Green started out like they were going to be able to carry […]
National League North side, Gloucester City are devastated with the shocking news of the kit man’s home suddenly bursting up into flames. The club has said they have “lost everything” after the tragic event. EFL League Two side Forest Green Rovers have offered their own money to pay for new training kits and Telford have […]
Aston Villa Women have got off to the worst possible start to their WSL season losing their opening four games and it doesn’t get any easier this weekend as they host reigning WSL champions Chelsea at Bescot Stadium. Carla Ward’s side have gone ahead in three of their four games but have made a […]
With the FA Cup now in full spirit with the first round of the tournament this weekend, the usual thing that gets many managers talking is the replays. For anyone unaware of what the replay is, if the two sides draw in the initial game, they then have to play another game at the opposite […]
Cheltenham Town defender Curtis Davies has expressed that he is a “massive advocate for this competition” ahead of his side’s first round FA Cup clash with AFC Wimbledon. “First and foremost, growing up as a kid in England, I always played ‘Wembley’ in the playground with my mates. “I always pretended to be Eric Cantona, […]