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“Ideally we wanted the season done by April but based of lots of different reasons its been postponed,” explains Fensome. Forest Green Rovers Women played their penultimate game of the season, a 1-0 away loss to title challengers Torquay United, on the 27th of April. Due to some scheduling issues in the South West Regional […]
Sutton Coldfield Town Women’s manager Steve Benyon has “confidence” going into his first game against Leafield Athletic when they meet on Sunday afternoon. “I pass on again my sincere thanks to them trusting me the players from the first team to the development squad. I see that as one club to the staff as well […]
Cheltenham Town Women’s manager Tom Davies is confident ahead of this weekend’s National League clash against Wolverhampton Wanderers on Sunday. Wolves currently sit second in the table, one point behind league leaders Nottingham Forest. Most recently, they secured an impressive 8-0 victory over local rivals West Bromwich Albion. A sensational Black Country derby victory at […]
Forest Green Rovers Women take on Bridgwater United for a second successive year in the Adobe WFA Cup at Hartpury University on Sunday afternoon. Bridgwater United are a division above FGR as they play their football in the Division One South West, compared to the Regional League that Forest Green play in. The Robins won […]
Swindon Town Women captain, Georgia Clifford believes that: “It’s referee decisions that cost us the game” as Town suffered a 3-2 defeat to top of the league AFC Bournemouth Women. Bournemouth’s Katie James opened the scoring 25 minutes in as she shot from the edge of the box. Minutes after, Ellie Strippel weaved through the […]
Scientific studies show that female footballers are up to six times more likely to suffer ACL (anterior cruciate ligament) injuries than their male counterparts, with the situation reaching an alarming level. Reigning Women’s Ballon d’Or winner Alexia Putellas missed the 2022 European Championships due to an ACL injury, while high-profile stars Ellie Carpenter, Beth Mead […]
Watford Women star Lois Edwards has admitted it’s “mentally challenging” to have ruptured her ACL (anterior cruciate ligament) for the second time in four years. Edwards, 20, suffered the injury in a warm-up for Gillingham Women after joining the Women’s National League side on a short-term loan deal in October. View this post on Instagram […]
Watford Women defender Lois Edwards has been ruled out for the rest of the 2022/23 campaign after suffering a second ACL (anterior cruciate ligament) injury in four years. The former Chelsea academy graduate suffered the injury whilst on loan at Gillingham Women, and after consulting experts, it has now been revealed that she will miss […]
Actonians LFC Club chairwoman Linda Fox hopes the prize money disparity between the men’s and women’s FA Cup will continue to narrow following Actonians’ 3-1 win over Ashford United LFC in the Women’s FA Cup Second Round yesterday afternoon. Actonians’ victory sees the club receive a nice sum of £8,000 but for their male counterparts […]
Arsenal Women were knocked out of the Women’s Champions League last night by Wolfsburg who won 3-1 on aggregate. The German outfit will now advance to the semi-finals to face the current holders Barcelona. After a tense first leg that saw both sides net in a one-one draw. But whilst playing in front of the home […]