Sports Journalist, covering Manchester City Women's and Liverpool Ladies for the SL Spotlight. News writer for Read Championship. Previously written for the Football League Paper, Non-League Paper, the Burnley Express and Mancunian Matters Online.
Chelsea Ladies 2-1 Notts County Ladies Chelsea Ladies can almost taste league success as their win against Notts County put them five points clear of second placed Manchester City. England international Claire Rafferty gave Chelsea the lead, heading in Hannah Blundell’s cross, before limping off the field 10 minutes later after picking up a knock. […]
Chelsea earned their first ever piece of silverware with a 1-0 victory over Notts County in the FA Cup final on Saturday.
Ji So-Yun scored the only goal of the game in the first half, in front of a crowd of over 30,000 at Wembley.
Following their first defeat of the season, WSL 1 leaders Chelsea look to return to winning ways this weekend against Manchester City.
The team that inflicted that crushing 4-0 defeat, Sunderland, play bottom of the table Bristol Academy in Saturday’s only WSL 1 game.
England’s Toni Duggan scored the only goal of the game for Manchester City as they beat struggling Birmingham 1-0 in the first WSL 1 game since the summer break.
Birmingham are now just one point clear of the bottom of the table.
As the FA WSL resumes this weekend following the international break, Manchester City host Birmingham City in the WSL 1 on Sunday.
Both sides experienced poor starts to the season and will be looking to the England stars amidst their ranks to put in some performances.
Kyah Simon’s goal against Brazil saw Australia make history, recording their nation’s first ever World Cup knockout round victory.
Brazil however made their earliest exit from the competition following the 1-0 defeat.
The final places in the 2015 Women’s World Cup knockouts were decided following victories for Brazil and South Korea in Group E.
In case you missed it, here are the highlights from the decisive group games of this year’s tournament.
Brazil became only the second team in this year’s World Cup to win both of their opening group stage fixtures and seal their passage to the last 16.
Andressa Alves scored the only goal of the game in the South American’s narrow victory over tournament debutants Spain.
South Korea and Costa Rica played out an entertaining 2-2 draw to give both sides a chance of qualifying for the last 16 of this year’s FIFA Women’s World Cup.
The game saw an incredible 3 goals in 8 minutes as South Korea came from behind to lead 2-1 at the break before an 89th minute equaliser endured the Central American outfit a share of the points.
This week Marta became the leading World Cup goalscorer of all time and here at SLS we take a look at her best goal ever.
The strike came in Brazil’s 2007 demolition of the USA in the tournament semi-finals, but do you agree its her best of all time?
Brazil sit top of Group E after a 2-0 victory over South Korea in the opening game of their 7th World Cup tournament.
Formiga became the oldest player to ever score in the World Cup when she opened Brazil’s account in the first half before Marta grabbed a record of her own with the South American’s second goal.
Arsenal Ladies forward Vicky Losada gave World Cup newcomers Spain the lead against Costa Rica in the opening game of Group E.
But just 60 seconds later Raquel Rodriguez levelled the scores to put her team back in contention for qualification to the knockout stages.
