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Men’s/women’s football writer. Talking music with footballers (since 2011): . @shekicksmag . @swfc 💙 Ex- @BostonBreakers media
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“I wanted to try & prove people wrong, & I’d like to think this season I have…
If you can never be ready to play for England, then why are you playing football?”
My interview with Chelsea &
#Lionesses
keeper Hannah Hampton
In the new
@SheKicksMag
:
#CFCW
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Daniëlle van de Donk on whether she feels
#NED
are playing better than in the World Cup (when Dutch players admitted they got results without playing well): “No…does it look like it?” 😬
#WEURO2022
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Two teenage goalscorers at Hillsborough by the name of Cadamarteri - 26 years apart.
Danny for Everton while still 17. Son Bailey for
#swfc
at 18.
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“I knew Real Madrid was a massive club but actually being here…fans outside the training ground…being recognised on the Metro, that’s happened quite a lot; a lot more than the UK.”
My interview with Scotland star Caroline Weir in our new
@shekicksmag
🔑
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Carla Ward on the overall impact of Jordan Nobbs so far at Aston Villa:
“Jordan’s been sensational, as have all of them. We often talk about these big names but there’s players we’ve brought in that don’t get talked about that’ve equally been exceptional, on and off the pitch.”
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Carla Ward confirms to me that Aston Villa are looking to sign a goalkeeper on an emergency loan today.
Daphne van Domselaar will miss the game with Brighton due to concussion, meaning Anna Leat is currently their only option, with youngster Sophia Poor unavailable.
#avwfc
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Thanks for representing our club so well over the past 18 months. A good man who carried the
#swfc
name with dignity.
http://t.co/CAA6RHNGUb
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Everton coach Brian Sørensen on
#Arsenal
recalling Gio 🇧🇷:
“Yeah it was the injuries (at Arsenal). When I talked to them, I said, ‘If you want her back now, it’s ok for us, we’re in a good place; we just got Nico (Sørensen) back, Sara Holmgaard is coming in.’” (1/2)
#BarclaysWSL
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“I felt like winning a World Cup was my pinnacle dream, so to hit that at the age of 22 was awesome... For me after that, it’s been a rough road.”
The rebuild, to the repeat 🇺🇸
Final 🎶⚽️ feature of 2019: My in-depth interview with
#USWNT
’s
@moeebrian
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Euro 2017 champion, law student, singing & judo talent
My in-depth 🎶⚽️interview with Jackie Groenen 🇳🇱 (
@Jackie_10_
)
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“Playing France in that QF was probably the loudest, most incredible atmosphere I’ve been part of. Somehow my four-year-old nephew fell asleep in the 87th minute..”
In our brand-new
@SheKicksMag
, in depth with
#USWNT
&
@chiredstarsPR
‘s
@AlyssaNaeher
Buy:
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Shout out
@stockogk1313
today for the ‘place the free-kick too far up the pitch so the ref has to tell you to move it back’ bit of time-wasting. Is that another one from the handbook? 😂
#swfc
💙🤍
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My interview with
#USWNT
&
@HoustonDash
's
@meghankling
on her music love,teammates & much more
http://t.co/VgbXvCqz9x
http://t.co/ExIADUEYHU
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“If one day I can come back & work with the young lads at
#swfc
, I’d be very willing to be part of the club.”
The Johnson boys, to Nuhiu-sance neighbours. Hillsborough highs & hidden heartache
My 🎶⚽️ feature with
@JohnsonReda
Thanks for those memories💙
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Are there any videos of ‘Freed From Desire’ from after the final whistle? This one’s before kick-off, but I think the post-match one went up a few more notches (unless I dreamt it even happening a second time) 😅
#swfc
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Daniëlle van de Donk: “I didn’t know I was gonna be here, so for me, it’s extra special. I’m enjoying every minute, it’s just incredible. It’s also very nice to see other players step up. The young generation, I can enjoy watching them.”
#NED
#WEURO2022
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Wikipedia-sounding research, incorrect player names & marketing cliches isn’t what fans want to hear.
Some of women’s football’s broadcast coverage is excellent but too much isn’t. My article on why the game needs & deserves better:
📷Lynne Cameron/TheFA
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‘Your club should offer you tears of joy and pain, but never a shrug of indifference.’
For
#swfc
fans, let me know your thoughts. My goodbye to Fernando Forestieri (and Sam Hutchinson), and feelings on a club crying out to recapture a connection 💙🦉:
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League One points thrown away since Saturday:
Sheffield United - 5
Barcelona - 0
Denver Broncos - 0
The Mighty Ducks - 0
🔥🔥 🔴⚪️
Goals since the start of September:
Sheffield United – 40
Barcelona – 39
Bayern Munich – 32
PSG – 31
Man City – 30
⚪️🔴
#twitterblades
🔴⚪️
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WARNING: Fellow
#swfc
fans, remember for Saturday, don't invade a pitch when you haven't properly achieved anything.
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Left-back, striker, police officer, life adventurer:
My 🎶⚽️feature with Germany's Tabea Kemme 🇩🇪
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“There were times I remember saying to my mum ‘I don’t want to play full-time, I don’t want to do that as a job.’”
@chloearthurx
🏴 always loved football but a World Cup once felt a million miles away. Our
@SheKicksdotnet
Issue 53 interview in full:
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“I don’t even know how to put it into words. When you’re little you watch this on TV and you’re like ‘wow, look at them!’ and you’re so amazed.”
My interview with
#JAM
’s
@syd_schneider
on the
#FIFAWWC
adventure so far and her possible future in the game:
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£39 cheapest ticket (without a £50 membership) to watch us have more foul throws than shots on target. Welcome to the good life 🫡
#swfc
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“Me & Bern jumped over the fence, got on the phone and got a load of lads down with blow torches, thawing the pitch out to get the game on. We went & got beat 3-0.”
My in-depth feature with
@ChesterFC
’s
@amjonno
.
Part 1:
Part 2:
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“The most complete (time I felt), I would say my first two seasons at
#cafc
. That would be the pinnacle of ‘this is what football‘s about.’”
Managers, teammates, opponents. Promotion-winner to ‘Daddy Day Care’ 😄My in-depth interview with
@Lawrie_Wilson
:
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Fantasy football team for sale. Nearly new. Contains a Gary Cahill. One unused Victor Lindelof. Selling now so I can forget it ever happened
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“I would close my eyes and picture my comeback, with the song blasting in my ears.”
In family and football, through the pain and fears, to brighter days. There’s always been music for
@ManUtdWomen
’s
@amy_turner4
👹
Our 🎶⚽️ feature: (📸
@Sio_Chamberlain
)
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Unfortunately this is what I’m talking about. Player coming on in an international game and her SISTER being a ballerina is mentioned.
Men’s World Cup ‘98. David Batty steps up for England v Argentina. “Quickly Kevin, will he score? His brother’s a plumber by the way.”
Wikipedia-sounding research, incorrect player names & marketing cliches isn’t what fans want to hear.
Some of women’s football’s broadcast coverage is excellent but too much isn’t. My article on why the game needs & deserves better:
📷Lynne Cameron/TheFA
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My in-depth interview with
#USWNT
&
@WashSpirit
's
@Ashlyn_Harris
on music, teammates, her life outside soccer & more
http://t.co/ZqjEr4FHlB
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“I probably wasn’t willing to admit that I love the game as much as I do because I was afraid that it was gonna hurt me.”
My feature with IFK Göteborg’s ex-
#BrentfordFC
star
@LasseVibe
🇩🇰
Music love, cultural challenges and teammates, to a life after ⚽️:
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Has anyone through human history ever been watching a game of football, heard someone swear on the broadcast and been so shaken up by it that only an apology from the commentator would enable them to continue on with their day?
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'Bonded by the blue and the white'
My feature on
#swfc
. Our team, our club, and the feelings that never leave you 💙
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Paul Sturrock, Arctic Monkeys and Aberdeen. Rotherham, Real Madrid, and coming home after 17 years and a World Cup.
The story of Iceland defender Kári Árnason (
@karibestmeister
) 🇮🇸 - part one of our in-depth music/football interview:
#FyrirIsland
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As disappointed as we are (& I really am) we have to stay together. If you're tweeting players negative stuff, you're making it worse.
#swfc
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“…nah, I don’t think so. I don’t think we’ve shown our best football yet, but we got the wins, and that’s all that matters in a tournament.”
#NED
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If you’ve been enjoying the start of
@OnaBatlle
’s Manchester United 👹 career but still aren’t 100% sure how to say her name, here she is to teach you 😄 (play the clip...)
And our new
@SheKicksMag
has her 4-page interview with
@UEFAcomNickA
👇🏻
#MUWomen
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Dynamo Rossco - When Wednesday Met Wallace:
My article on what Ross Wallace has meant to
#swfc
💙
Been a long time since I did one of these, but if you’re a Wednesdayite, I hope you enjoy 🦉let me know your thoughts
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New blue in waiting 🔵
Four pages of
@EvertonWomen
’s
@HayleyRaso
🇦🇺 in the brand-new
@SheKicksMag
. Our (varied) interview in Issue 61 👇🏻
Print:
Or digital:
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My interview with Germany's Dzsenifer Marozsán. Her music side, teammates, and her life. 🇩🇪
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“I want to do things differently, I’m not a ‘mainstream’ type of person… Music was a big kind of escape from my problems, things I was going through on a day-to-day basis.”
My 🎶⚽️ feature with
#TigresFemenil
🐯 star
@miafishel10
🐠
#LigaMXFemEng
#uswnt
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“I have to wait a little bit until I’m retired so I can get back on my motorbike...”
Right-back, record-breaking scorer. ‘Addicted to music’. In love with the
#Bar
ça way.
My 🎶⚽️ feature with
#FCBfemen
í & Switzerland’s
@AnaCrnogorcevic
🇨🇭🇭🇷
📸
@joerdeli1
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“There’s been moments where Pernille or Magda in a set-piece start speaking to me in Danish or Swedish & I’ve got no idea!”
In-depth interview with England’s Niamh Charles, nearing three life-changing years since joining Chelsea. In our new
@SheKicksMag
:
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“We are really lucky here in Iceland. Women’s football gets a lot of respect.”🇮🇸
My interview with
@HarpaThorsteins
on making Champions League history at
@FCStjarnan
, her national team break, trying to go & play abroad, & being a footballer/mother-of-two
1
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Make sure you leave Hillsborough today knowing you did all you could to push us on & encourage. Nothing else is good enough. Come on
#swfc
💙
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"Wednesday will be my favourite club forever."
My interview with Guylain Ndumbu-Nsungu. What became of 'Dave'?
#swfc
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“If I’m not speaking up, who will?
...I will never stop raising my voice.”
My feature with
@KosovareAsllani
🇸🇪🇽🇰 in October’s
@SheKicksdotnet
#SweWNT
fun/freedom, settling in Spain (with some help from Netflix), Man City/life in England, & plenty more:
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We’ve gone all
#LouBritannia
for our new
@SheKicksMag
issue 😬💜
My six-page double-interview special with
@RacingLouFC
’s
#Lionesses
@ebony_salmon
&
@gembon23
. How to get yours👇
Print:
Digital (for quicker access): 📷EMDashPhoto
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It’s the hope that…thrills you 💙🦉
An article for
#swfc
fans. Last Saturday’s late win - and life overall under Danny Röhl - has recaptured a feeling for me that was allowed to be lost far too soon after Wembley.
🔗
📸
@Alexyoungphoto
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FA Cup might not be a ‘priority’, but this just feels so much like that season we came down under Irvine. Decent start, then slowly slip further away. I’m dying to be positive about us but you can’t have watched
#swfc
regularly this season and think things are on the right track.
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“I think I would make a band with
@sarabjork18
,
@CarolineGrahamH
,
@1maryearps
,
@peterbabett
&
@emasar3
...”
Music love/memories, teammates, wanting to speak up for better, & more.
My 🎶⚽️ feature with Denmark captain & Wolfsburg star
@PernilleMHarder
🎧🇩🇰
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Daniëlle van de Donk: “Of course you want to have a good feeling, but I’ve said it before, if we get to the final with very ugly football, I’ll sign for it.”
#NED
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“I love the NWSL & I love this team. Until this team decides it wants to go its separate ways, I will always want to be in North Carolina.”
@SheKicksMag
Issue 61 cover star
@lynnraenie
🇺🇸
Our in-depth interview in the brand-new issue
Digi access:
#USWNT
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Loved what Danny Murphy said about coming to Hillsborough and playing
@chriswaddle93
at
#swfc
when he was a youngster at Crewe. 🔵⚪️
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My🎶⚽️feature with Man City’s Megan Campbell: A life’s love, laughs & loss ☘️
We did this a few weeks back & for obvious reasons I then thought to put it aside. Hopefully the change of heart was right. Thanks
@megcam10
for giving it your blessing 🇮🇪
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At what point in this do police seal off Norway’s left side as an official crime scene?
#WEURO2022
#Lionesses
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“(At half-time, 1-0 down v Brighton last season) I remember Tobin Heath said, ‘It’s better when it’s harder - it’s sweeter when we win.’… I really like that mindset.”
My feature with
#Arsenal
head coach
@eidevall
, in our new
@SheKicksMag
To order:
#awfc
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Or is it ‘worth a thousand words’? Who knows? Buy your ten-year season ticket now to find out.
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¡Oye mi canto!🎵 My feature with
@WashSpirit
's
@EstefiBanini_10
. Her music/soccer love &story
1
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46
Lucía García has scored seven goals in her last nine
#BarclaysWSL
games for Manchester United, despite only starting one game in that time.
Against Arsenal tomorrow night, she could become the first
#MUWomen
player to score in four WSL games in a row. (Source: OPTA)
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The FIFA 18 update for the World Cup is worth it just for this at the end of 🇮🇸 games 😎
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I love tournaments but I can't wait to start this up again. The feeling of belonging has never been greater 💙
#swfc
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“Anywhere there’s Jamaicans & Jamaican culture, I feel more at home. That’s a huge part of me.”
🎶⚽️ feature with
@ReadingFCWomen
& Canada’s Deanne Rose 🇨🇦🇯🇲
Music, teammates, heritage. Life in 🏴, & the side to the
#CanWNT
she wishes people saw more of:
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My in-depth interview with ex-
#USWNT
keeper
@jloyden
on her music love,teammate stories & life
http://t.co/GHVueEpjbz
http://t.co/H7znlHpLsp
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I know so much in football is for show but I just believe in it with this team. How they work & fight for each other
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My 🎧⚽️feature with
@ORLPride
's
@Kris10edmonds
. The throwbacks, the teammates, her journey in her words:
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My in-depth feature with
@WashSpirit
's
@NairnChristine
: The player, the person, 🎵 &teammates
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“I think I’m finally in a space where I’m confident on and off the field.”
In the fifth country of her club career, Liverpool’s
@ksteng12
🇺🇸 has found something invaluable (& not just Primark & beans on toast…).
Our interview in the new
@SheKicksMag
:
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12
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“I need the city life; I need stuff going on.”
My in-depth interview with Chelsea & Switzerland’s
@bachmannr10
🇨🇭: Exploring one of women’s football’s entertainers, through music, mistakes & maturing, football devotion, fun & finding a new belonging 🔵
1
15
44
“I feel like I’m starting to understand conversations and get the gist of most things, if it’s said slowly enough. Speaking is really difficult - especially with a Scottish accent!”
#realmadridfem
#LigaF
#realmadrid
“I knew Real Madrid was a massive club but actually being here…fans outside the training ground…being recognised on the Metro, that’s happened quite a lot; a lot more than the UK.”
My interview with Scotland star Caroline Weir in our new
@shekicksmag
🔑
11
64
262
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“I’ve realised it more so being here in Birmingham, because there’s obviously a bigger (British-Asian) community… I realise that I’m a role model now and I do have little kids coming up saying, ‘Oh you look just like me.’ It’s really humbling to hear.” 🏴🇵🇭
@MazPacheco
💜💙
“My thought process is I’d love to get a chance to train with the senior (England) girls & see where I’m at… If Sarina wants me one day, hopefully I’m ready enough to go."
Maz Pacheco & Villa are moving on up 🦁 Our interview in the new
@SheKicksMag
:
👉
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"I don't have time to half-ass it."
Mother/footballer/student/personal trainer: Pt.2 of my🎶⚽️feature with
@sifatla
🇮🇸
1
8
41
My interview with
@chicagoredstars
' Sofia Huerta (
@schuerta
). We talk music, teammates & life:
http://t.co/nX8ZdKsY5j
http://t.co/bmjQ6h61Cf
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8
41
"Liverpool make me better. The supporters, they believe in me & give me a little bit of trust."
@ShaniceJanice
on the
@LFCladies
fans in 🇳🇱
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12
42
My feature with Wolfsburg's
@laradickenmann
on her life, teammates through the years & music
0
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“I think I’ve got a bit of anger in me; I always want to prove a point. Even if past coaches said I’m not good enough, I’ve always wanted to show them I am.”
6 pages of Aston Villa’s
#MUWomen
loanee
@KirstyHanson3
. Our interview in the new
@SheKicksMag
🔑
3
5
40
“At Birmingham, they appreciate me… I can maybe show this season the real Ivana that was there all the time hiding.”
In depth with
@Ivana_FFuso
🇧🇷🔥: Birmingham City,
#MUWomen
, life off the pitch & more. Our interview in the new
@SheKicksMag
.
Get yours:
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“You would never know (
@samkerr1
) has a down day… (
@Mdawg1bright
) I’ll always miss, because she was my confidant, the person that I leant on, and then (
@erincuthbert_
)’s just Erin, there’s no one like her that I’ll probably ever meet again.”
#CFCW
“I’ll always be ready for my country if needs be, but I’m excited to see what this group can do in the summer.”
In-depth feature with
#Lionesses
keeper
@carlytelford1
, starting over in Southern California.
#WaveFC
#NWSL
📸 Daniela Porcelli/SPP
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Alright...why did nobody in women’s football ever tell me about this? 😂 Yes I’m delighted.
#FIFAWWC
3
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"I think what good is life if you're not making people laugh?"
My 🎶⚽️feature with
@chicagoredstars
'
@smccaffrey9
:
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Asked Casey Stoney about any lessons learned from managing Lauren James, Ella Toone etc. as youngsters that she now applies with the likes of
#USWNT
call-up Jaedyn Shaw (18).
Her full/thoughtful answer, including the admission she got it wrong with Ebony Salmon.
#VamosWave
#NWSL
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