Players must learn lesson after damaging Dubai trip while Chelsea top WSL after beating Manchester UnitedIt has been a difficult few weeks for the WSL amid the fallout from some players going on a trip to Dubai during the winter break. The trip resulted in positive Covid tests for a number of returning players, leading to games being postponed, and it brought into sharp focus the fact that the spotlight is so much bigger on these players these days. This is good news in many respects and this is what we have wanted for a long time. Related: Fran Kirby hits winner as Chelsea beat Manchester United to go top of WSL Related: Manchester United's Leah Galton: 'Press and Heath...
Galton cements star status at Manchester United, rampaging Foord takes centre stage for Arsenal and Fishlock is flyingWith Chelsea’s match against Tottenham one of two WSL games postponed because of Covid outbreaks – and another falling foul of a waterlogged pitch – Manchester United extended their lead at the top by thrashing the division’s bottom team, Bristol City, 6-1. There were another two goals for Leah Galton, who is absolutely on fire and enjoying playing higher up on the left. Though the US internationals Tobin Heath and Christen Press got a lot of the attention when they arrived in the summer, Galton has come in and undoubtedly been their star of the season so far. Bristol were resolute in the...
Mewis and Weir shine for Manchester City, Galton keeps up Manchester United’s winning away run and Morgan is spot-on again for SpursManchester City and Arsenal gave us a dramatic match, from the moment the Gunners took the lead after two minutes to City’s winner in stoppage time. It was great to see the return of the old City, galvanised by Sam Mewis, the team’s driving force in terms of both her physical power and her leadership. Mewis’s battle with Arsenal’s Katie McCabe was one meaty match-up, two physically strong players but technically excellent as well. I’ve said a few times this season that City have looked disjointed, not really themselves, but this could be a turning point for them and...
Pandemic has exposed inequalities that lie beneath shiny veneer of Women’s Super League and the need for changeThere has rightly been much outrage and confusion about the suspension of girls’ academies and regional talent clubs during the latest lockdown while, at the same time, boys in Premier League and Football League clubs’ youth pathways can continue to train.It is outrageous. There should never be a situation where a young female footballer is being told she cannot play while her male equivalent can continue. It shatters even the illusion of equality and could actively hinder the “be whatever you want to be” message that women’s football is trying to instil in young girls. Related: Women’s football has seen a decade of...
The WSL has been nurtured well but the top of the domestic game may need to strike out to get the showcase it deservesIt all kicked off on women’s football Twitter this month. Not because of something Phil Neville said, which is the usual cause of button bashing, but as a result of TV coverage, or lack thereof.Women’s football fans are a unique, loyal and opinionated tribe. So the news that very few of the first-round of games in the Continental Cup, including the mouth-watering Chelsea-Arsenal match, were going to be available to watch live went down like a lead balloon. Related: Kay Cossington: 'We have the world's best league – and we want success' | Suzanne Wrack Continue reading...