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27th February 2022: Women’s FA Cup 5th Round: Prenton Park: Liverpool vs Arsenal I have decided to leave my experiences at England’s final match of the Arnold Clark Cup for a blog that will form part of a series building up to the Women’s Euros in the summer. So we jump past that mid-week journeyContinue reading “The Gulf”

Sunday 13th February 2022: Manchester City Women vs Manchester City Women: Etihad Academy Stadium Having already been to the Academy stadium for Arsenal’s WSL visit I thought I knew what to expect when I got off the Metrolink tram at the Velopark stop. I was wrong because the queues to get in were biblical!! IContinue reading “Manchester Derby at the Etihad…. Academy”

February 9th 2022, Manchester City vs Brentford Fresh on the back of a humiliation at the hands of Frank Lampard’s new Everton team Brentford stayed up in the north west for their next match against the runaway league leaders Manchester City. Brentford came into the match having not won in the league since beating AstonContinue reading “A Month of Losing”

Having been back to London to pick up the tickets for this FA Cup match and taking the free evening to pop into Plough Lane, it was now time for me to head to the FA Cup showdown between the Franks of Thomas and Lampard. Thomas Frank is the manager of the visiting Brentford andContinue reading “Frank ‘Battle’”

This match fell into my lap, to start February, whilst I was down in London to pick up tickets for my FA Cup team at the weekend. I had an evening to fill whilst in the Big Smoke and I have always had a soft spot for AFC Wimbledon so I took the chance toContinue reading “Back at Plough Lane, Merton”

With the Premier League on their winter break over the last weekend of January, I took the chance to go to a Manchester derby. Not the big Manchester derby between City and United, but a derby down in the lower reaches of League 2 between Oldham Athletic and their local rivals Rochdale. They are separatedContinue reading “The Quintessential 0-0”

So after the warm-up in Leigh it was off to Manchester proper for Man City against Arsenal at the Etihad Academy Stadium that is just across the road from the Etihad Stadium proper. This match was between two of the biggest hitters in domestic Women’s football in England. They are both perennial challengers for theContinue reading “The Mancunian Women’s Main Event”

This Sunday I took the whole day out of my life and go on a trip through the Women’s football on offer in Manchester at the WSL level. This of course meant heading first to Wigan and then on to the little village of Leigh a 25 minute bus ride away. My destination was LeighContinue reading “The Mancunian Women’s Warm Up”

This week I went back to London for a game at the Brentford Community stadium that had originally fallen to the Apocalypse and was now going ahead just over a month later than scheduled. The Brentford game in question was the visit of Manchester United to the newly promoted Londoners. This was the first meetingContinue reading “Man U Rescheduled it”

This weekend was the big night in the FA Cup, the third round. This is the round where the big boys join the competition and those teams who have come through at least 2 rounds already have the chance to gain the scalp of a team that no-one would ever expect them to beat. TheContinue reading “Round 3 in the Midlands”