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Category "Womens Football"
The 2012 Olympic Games: Womens Football – The Semi-Finals
After one-and-a-half sensational semi-finals, I feel like a killjoy. Despite the wonderful football played – at least as much by the losers as the winners – my thoughts were of...
The 2012 Olympic Games: France & Japan Light Up Wembley
There has been quite a lot written over the last few days on the subject of the Olympic Games and its various interactions with association football. A lot of this...
The 2012 Olympic Games: Womens Football – The Quarter-Finals
Those pesky quarter-finals do their worst yet again. By the time Hope Powell’s Team GB got any cohesion into their game against Canada, they were already a (terrific) goal down...
A Defining Evening For Womens Football In Britain?
In front of a crowd of over 70,000 people at Wembley last night, women’s football in Britain was given the perhaps the biggest boost that it could have been given....
Arsenal’s Year Again? The Return Of The FA Womens Super League
Tomorrow afternoon sees the return of the FA Womens Super League, with eight teams doing battle in the first summer league version of a tournament that the FA hopes will...
A Bird’s Eye View: The BBC Tackles Sexism In Football
The wry announcement beforehand ‘so *is* there sexism in football?’ wasn’t a great start was it? Neither was scheduling it for 10.45pm, tucked away after the lottery draw. Okay, so...
The Womens Super League Resumes After Its Summer Break
After the success of the Womens World Cup, the Womens Super League restarted last weekend after a break, and the early signs seem to be, encouragingly, that the summer tournament...
Our Final Word On The 2011 Womens World Cup
In covering football tournaments on 200%, I have found it easy to see the good in them. Too easy for some tastes, I admit. But, honestly, the 2011 Women’s World...
The 2011 Womens World Cup Final: USA 2-2 Japan (Japan Win On Penalties)
It started slowly, before rising to a beautiful tumult and ended with a penalty shoot-out which ended in a victory for the team of the aesthetes. And then, on top...
The 2011 Womens World Cup: The Quarter Finals
So often in major international tournaments, the knock-out stages are where the rot starts to set in, even though they are supposed to be where the tournament ‘hots up.’ Thankfully,...
The 2011 Womens World Cup: A Possible Revolutionary Encounter
Back in 1950, Harry Keough perhaps summarised best the general attitude toward the quality of the American game that might still hold true in some quarters of the international football...
England Lose World Cup Match On Penalty Kicks
Perhaps, on a bookshelf in the offices of the Football Association at Wembley Stadium, there is a leather-bound book called “How To Get Knocked Out Of A Major Tournament”. It’s...
The 2011 Womens World Cup: Game Three Round-Up
So, having toyed with resembling England’s men in 2006 and 2010, Hope Powell’s England finally plumped for Bobby Robson’s 1986-vintage, coming (very) good in their last group game after early...
The 2011 Womens World Cup: England 2-0 Japan
Coming into form at the right time is a critical aspect of tournament football, but it is one that occasionally feels as if it is overlooked. This evening, against a...
The 2011 Womens World Cup – Game Two Updates
A web of intrigue awaits in the last round of matches at the Women’s World Cup. Most of the quarter-finalists may already be known. But Germany’s stuttering start – caused...
England Start To Find Their Feet At The Womens World Cup
With thirty minutes left to play in Dresden last night, it looked as if the England team was heading out of the 2011 Womens World Cup. A goal down against...
The 2011 Women’s World Cup: Group B Preview
It’s now less than two weeks until the 2011 Women’s World Cup starts in Germany, and over the next couple of weeks and tonight we are taking the time to...
The 2011 Women’s World Cup: Group A Preview
It’s now less than two weeks until the 2011 Women’s World Cup starts in Germany, and over the next couple of weeks or so we’ll be taking the time to...