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“The Attenborough of women's football" | Writer for @ESPNFC | opinions and typos galore
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Will be going back to the freelance [and available for work] life at the start of October, so if you want women's football content, give me a shout
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If only England had a senior football team that had just won a Euros, with a captain they could have used for something like this
England’s good luck message from the bloke who ran across Africa
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Sign in the stands as Norway host France.
10/10, no notes.
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This happens in the...
Premier League: “Omg, crazy, best league in the world!”
Any other men’s leagues: “Rubbish farm league!”
Any women’s league: “eQuAL pAy?! Lol, kitchen!”
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Surely we should be lauding this player, who’s moved to another country with a different culture from the one she’s grown up in, for assimilating so flawlessly
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Men, are they too emotional for football
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Once you get over the narrative that every female footballer has to be a role model, and the sport has to be pristinte, good clean fun for gals, you can really revel in how banterful it can actually be and enjoy some of the natural messiness
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Yay and such but Rubiales was so overt and blasé, with the eyes of the world on him, making it so FIFA didn’t have a choice but to open proceedings against him.
How many girls and women in football are left to suffer in silence with their abusers protected by the powers that be
The FIFA Disciplinary Committee opens disciplinary proceedings against Luis Rubiales, President of the Spanish FA
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I'm not saying you have to be queer to exist in a women's football space, there are plenty (PLENTY) of straight folk within the sport, but given the relationship with the queer community the sport has, it's still surprising to see people within the sport carrying homophobic views
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Italian national teams and their tailored drip
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Woso hall of fame stuff
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Fishlock is one of the greatest footballers Wales has ever produced, goalscoring aside, she is an exemplary midfielder who, at 37, is still playing a vital role of club and country. Should be lauded by her fellow Welshies, not getting shite for breaking records.
Wales' all-time top goal scorer says she is disappointed with the level of online abuse she received after her record goal
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A documentary that tries to answer the pressing questions around ACLs in the women’s game, whilst showing an honest glimpse of what rehab actually looks like for one of the sport’s worst injuries whilst serving as an important reminder that Miedema has the jokes.
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“I miss her” and it’s just the entirety of the 2023 World Cup
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It’s been eight years 😭
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Julie Ertz: one of the best footballers in the world
Julie Ertz: somehow still underrated
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Got some good height off the board but she's lost her form as she's gone to twist, the legs are apart and the judges won't like that
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NWSL: so we have this new anti-harassment policy…
Somehow the majority of NWSL teams five minutes later: our new interim coach is…
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I am once again, not saying that EVERYONE involved in women’s football is queer but that there is a sizeable number of members of the queer community who play, coach and support woso and this would be a firm slap in the face to the sport
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“They are a team led by a man accused of creating an environment of silence and suffering, and who is defended by a federation whose culture and structure is designed to maintain the patriarchal status quo and punish those who would dare challenge it.”
Spain's
#FIFAWWC
win will forever be haunted by the ghosts of the players who weren't there.
here, in the space of a single team's story, all the progress and problems of the women's game have been laid bare for all of us to see.
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The absolute state of this.
Sam, I beg of you, engage with just one lesbian
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The Pride Curse is both real and one of the strangest subplots to the Challenge Cup
Vote with your mind, your gut, flip a coin... We have no explanation for what's happening.
Game 1 Saturday at 12:30 pm ET on
@CBSAllAccess
. ⤵️
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Wonder what the “gosh, Women’s football is so clean and pure, you never see unnecessarily heavy challenges or diving in it” crowd are thinking of this one
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Should men be allowed to play football or should they know their place and stick to fixing cars and starting wars...
This sequence of play from the Belgian league might just be the most entertaining we've ever seen.
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Not entirely sure what been happening but it seems turning my phone off and trying to have a weekend without woso is not a good idea.
Going to go through everything but I’m safe, no need to panic.
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That video of a quartet of Spain players doing their version of the haka is, a best, a big yikes but doing it, filming it, editing it and then posting it without realising how deeply disrespectful and culturally insensitive it is
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Don't know if I can adequately explain this but, the entire Arsenal team has Katie McCabe energy today
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So you change the president, the coach, are you changing the culture? Are you fixing the systems that keep bad people in place? Are you looking at those who enabled the systematic rot? Or are you opting for generic platitudes to distract and dispel
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Very strange that Group A will have wrapped up before half the teams in Group H have played their second game, just the amount of confusion my brain doesn’t need at this point
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It’s just weird, being a member of the queer community and knowing, at the World Cup, I’ll be represented by players and coaches but if they wanted to wear a thin strip of fabric with a rainbow on it, they’d face sanctions
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NWSL, you’ve got a trans player who doesn’t use female pronouns in your league, maybe it’s time to revert to Player of the week/match (even if it means saying goodbye to the alliteration).
You cool with that,
@budweiserusa
?
J-MAC's back in a big way 💥
Snagging a goal and an assist in
@TheNCCourage
's 3-2 win over the weekend,
@J_Mac1422
earns
@budweiserusa
Woman of the Week honors 👏
#CC21
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So, some personal news…
I’m going go be doing bits over at
@ESPNFC
to help boost their Women’s football coverage, big summer coming up and all that
I’M SORRY, IS THAT SOPHIE LAWSON FOR ESPN?!?!?
Proud of you, m8.
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She's about to discover that life at the Wave is no day at the beach
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Maybe this is a dumb bitch suggestion, but why don’t they just reverse the fixture? Play in Eindhoven this week and at the Emirates next month. Both stadiums look free (atm) and it saves a potential fixture backlog
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Most players try to put a firm divider between who they are on/off the pitch but, especially over the last half of her career, Pinoe used her privilege and platform in a way most others haven't and more and more, the world saw a defiant character willing to stand (or kneel) for
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FIFA said no expanded squad sizes and coaches one-upped them by saying no subs.
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I'm really struggling with that interview.
I just can't fathom who the bigger piece of shit in that room is.
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Right, so, some personal news…
I’m going to be saying goodbye to the freelance life moving over to
@ESPNFC
on a full time basis.
Which means I might never get to ask a footballer what fruit they’d be again, but, who knows.
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I’m pretty strict on the sports I like (football, snooker and athletics), and I follow the BBC Sport Twitter. In doing so I see endless tweets about sports I’m not interested in, but never once have I felt inclined to reply, “no one cares” to one about a sport I don’t follow
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“Put her on the $100 bill!” The cry from a man in front of me as the replay of Kerr’s exceptional equaliser plays on the screen
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And then you realise that Jack Grealish is just the straight woman's Keira Knightley
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“On paper, Kerr's goal in this loss will read as mere consolation. But for those who watched -- in Stadium Australia or elsewhere around this wide brown land -- Kerr's goal was a dream realised, the physical, tangible embodiment of hope. It was perfect.”
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If your knee jerk reaction when the majority of a national team put out a statement saying a coach has negatively impacted their well-being, is to side with the federation who for years protected the former coach of that same NT who abused his players… I mean, maybe take a beat.
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And here you go, the power of Women’s football to bring people together
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🏆 Unparalleled 🏆 Unprecedented 🏆 Unsurpassed 🏆
@ManCity
are the first side in English football history to win four consecutive top-flight titles.
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Mindful that this doesn’t come across as fangirling but we are tremendously lucky to have Eriksson and her willingness to be honest, she consistently uses her platform for good and tries to make a positive impact
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How and why Toxic Positivity is dragging women’s football down
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Again I am saying that people don’t realise how good Hasegawa actually is (and ridiculously, somehow, Iwabuchi too)
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Gonna go out on a limb here and suggest that if you’ve got a long history of engaging with racist & transphobic content, it wasn’t just a mistake you made when you were younger but long held views + if you’re sorry, it’s because you’ve been called out, not because you’ve changed
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Cuthbert + her 50p pocket money
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Really nice to see the Lionesses honoured before men’s games at their former clubs… probably best not to pivot to how much those clubs have historically invested (money, facilities, a modicum of attention etc) in their Women’s teams
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Hannah Wilkinson No one
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Scoring from open play at the WWC
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The problem with Harder for Denmark is, none of her teammates are as smart and technically gifted as she is, in games like this, you need two of her on the pitch
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It’s always obviously more than just fans frustrated with the lack of schedule especially given just how far you can travel for an away day but, this is a dreadful look for the NWSL, to have players publicly bantering the league off
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I would simply not chose to forget that Zambia rocked up to their first ever major tournament and scored seven goals in their first two games in Japan in 2021
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Ever since the Spain players spoke out last summer, even just watching the team has carried the weight of their allegations against Vilda, not just of the fed who weren't doing right by women's football but of the behaviours reminiscent of Quereda.
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Arsenal being without Williamson and Rafaelle is a stinger but OL lacking Carpenter, Hegerberg, Mbock, Dabritz, Maroszan, Macario, Cascarino, Majri AND Giles is the entire hive
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Once again telling folk in the woso space that if they’re potentially/triggered by what’s going on in Spain, that there’s no shame in logging off and taking some time for themselves
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With no disrespect meant to any other goalie in the league, especially AD, I just don’t get how Bixby isn’t no.1 somewhere.
We know this isn’t a one-off save, rather her level is right up there with the best in NWSL
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Oh, I see we’re again “protecting women’s sports” by doing massive racisms against sub-Saharan athletes, backed up by western (white) ideals of femininity
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Whole bunch of NWSL fans telling on themselves with, “who cares? We had to get up earlier to watch the Olympics.” comments without realising that players would have to be getting up before 5am.
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*checks 2023 bingo card for Jennifer Garner waving a lesbian pride flag*
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Fixed it for you, KC
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Nah mate, look how she slows down and looks at Wilko being marshalled in the box, no way is that a cross
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Mapi the other day and now Patri confirming they won’t be at the WWC, which, shouldn’t be a surprise to those paying attention to the situation.
Yes, there’s hope of a resolution but you’re asking players to go back to an abusive coach, to put themselves in a situation that will
Patri Guijarro tells
@rac1
that she will not be going to the World Cup.
🗣️”Today, I won't play in the World Cup... and at the moment I don't see that the situation can be fixed either"
📸
@JamesCWPhoto
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Williamson was consistent in her praise for Rafaelle yesterday, but the Brazilian has arguably not gotten the full plaudits she deserves since moving to the WSL. It’s easy to focus on the mid/attack at Arsenal but the CB has been outstanding
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Honestly, I can’t believe all this uproar about Nike collars and it’s not about this disgusting nonsense
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And for the final time in Chelsea blue, Korea’s finest female footballer, Ji So-yun leaves the pitch
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As well as all the out (and closeted) lesbian, bi and pan women who’ll be playing at the World Cup, we can also expect Quinn to be playing the same key role for Canada that they have a previous tournaments. Simply having them involved is what separates this tournament from Qatar
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Player joins WSL from NWSL: “Well, it’s going to take time for them to get used to the physicality of the league.”
Player returns to NWSL: “Well, it’s going to take them time….”
Let’s be plain here, Mewis doesn’t need to get used to leagues, leagues need to get used to Mewis
JFC it’s not going to take Sam Mewis ‘time to get comfortable’ in the NWSL.
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Having to study A
Midsummer Night's NWSL
Dream when commentators
I was nine
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The inability to read plays
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Once again thinking about how you can’t get away with NWSL banter in any other leagues. There’d be riots.
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Oberdorf currently at the hospital with Germany waiting on the results
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As someone who is not American, I’ve always found the “Us vs the world” US mentality to be very strange, and I appreciate that it’s the culture of the nation but it feels - away from football - like the type of thing that further drives division and distrust
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