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ITV curse strikes again.
In major tournaments since 1998:
BBC : W11 D1 L3
ITV: W2 D6 L5
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A fan runs on the pitch carrying a rainbow flag during Hungary‘s national anthem. (Getty)
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Leon Goretzka, who has been a regular vocal supporter of LGBTQ+ rights, makes a love heart symbol towards the Hungarian supporters after he scores.
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Melbourne, at 3am 🇦🇺 time. A big moment for football in the country.
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Keira Walsh on her pass to Ella Toone: "I think I just heard her shouting in her little Wigan accent and I thought right, I've got to put it on a plate for her."
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Sarina Wiegman reveals the bracelet she kissed as England won the Euros was one of her sister's, who passed away before the start of the tournament.
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This is a crowd at a match in the fourth tier of the English women's football pyramid (pic via Getty).
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After today’s win against the USA, Quinn becomes the first out trans athlete to win an Olympic medal.
They are guaranteed at least a silver alongside the rest of their Canadian teammates.
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The biggest crowd for any football match (men or women) in Europe this season so far is a game in the Women's Champions League. Imagine saying that sentence just a few years ago.
91,553 at Camp Nou for Barcelona vs Real Madrid in the
#UWCL
. 91,553.
Remember, though, that apparently nobody cares about women's football.
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87,192 attendance at Wembley. Biggest attendance for ANY Uefa competition
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Canada win and Quinn becomes not only the first Trans Olympic medalist, but the first Trans gold medalist.
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A pitch invader ran across the pitch during Portugal vs Uruguay at the Word Cup in Qatar wearing a shirt reading “Save Ukraine” and holding a pride flag. (via Getty)
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Emma Hayes on the pressure this weekend: “I’m from a council estate. Trust me, pressure was putting money on the table to pay the bills as a child, this is not pressure.
“Look at inflation, look at the rising cost for people to pay their bills. This is far from pressure.”
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Uefa have BANNED pride flags 🏳️🌈 from the fan zone and stadium in Budapest for Netherlands vs Czech Republic this evening. No words.
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Mika: “I don’t even know what you‘re drinking or how much you are drinking.”
Graham Norton: “Not enough for this“
Never change.
#Eurovision
.
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The Stockholm Derby saw a record Damallsvenskan attendance of 18,537.
Look at the scenes at the final whistle:
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Utterly disgusting allegations about Mason Greenwood.
If your first reaction is to make jokes about Prison FC, then you’re trivialising what victims go through and are part of the problem.
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You’ve never felt true heartbreak until you check the Manchester Piccadilly departure boards and see it’s Platform 14.
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21,737 at St James' Park for Newcastle Women vs Alnwick Town.
That is the biggest crowd for a women's league match in England this season.
Newcastle are in the fourth tier.
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“Jonas Eidevall, one of our symbolic men. Good evening Lord Sugar”
Sensational from
@robyniocowen
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Lyon have not lost by more than a single goal in the
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That's the magnitude of this Arsenal result.
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The whole of the UK is finding out that Jill is an absolute icon and I'm very much here for it.
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Germany goalkeeper Manuel Neuer is also wearing his 🏳️🌈 armband today.
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Some BIG news. Women's teams are set to be integrated into football manager. Was announced today on TalkSport.
A massive step forward after fans campaigning for years for its addition.
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A reminder that Eugenie Le Sommer has scored 86 goals for France. Giroud is the men’s top scorer.
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A fan ran onto the pitch at Chelsea vs Juventus during the game to try to get a picture with Magda Eriksson.
As he was jogging away from the stewards, Sam Kerr barged him over and received a yellow for doing so.
Pic: Getty
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The view from the other direction (Pool/AFP/Getty)
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Barcelona‘s have only surpassed the 50k barrier for three men‘s games this season (Real Madrid, Espanyol and Real Betis). They only had 39k vs Bayern in the UCL.
After a day, 50k tickets have already been sold for the women‘s game against Real in the UWCL.
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A number of those in the stands are also wearing pride flags 🏳️🌈:
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5 Live report that Jill Scott has pulled an all nighter. Big respect.
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Chelsea’s FA Cup win means they got £39,000 in prize money in total.
Warrington Rylands got £47,875 in total for winning the FA Vase.
That’s the sort of inequality in the game in this country which needs to be fixed.
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Coventry United, who were deducted ten points in January, secured FAWC safety in the seventh minute of added time.
What a way to do it from Mollie Green:
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This is great (from the Daily Mail’s sports agenda)
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Incredible Coca Cola League One energy this.
Starmer walks on stage to tune of 'Right Here Right Now' by Fatboy Slim.
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We've had a "What do we think of Tottenham" chant in Brisbane. At England v Haiti.
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D’Margio Wright-Phillips — whose father is Shaun Wright-Phillips, uncle is Bradley Wright-Phillips and grandfather is Ian Wright — makes his professional debut.
That’s some footballing family.
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Lucy Bronze on Sarina Wiegman after last night's celebrations: “She’s got some good moves.”
Leah Williamson: "I think we've partied more than we've played football in the last 24 hours."
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In a world of such uncertainty, it’s nice to see that some things never change.
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Leah Williamson (
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The back of his shirt read “respect Iranian women” (AFP)
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Canada and Sweden both take the knee in the Olympic final. Suppose that puts paid to Trump’s suggestion that you can’t win if you’re woke.
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Brazil should’ve spoken to Jonas Eidevall before tonight to learn about the power cats hold over football results.
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Beth Mead is on Lorraine tomorrow at 9 in her first exclusive interview since winning the Euros.
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I think this is what Chelsea fans would probably refer to as Hayesball
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Aitana Bonmati to L'Equipe on the lack of impact of Spain's WWC win, says England's Euro impact makes her "jealous" in comparison: "Unfortunately I can't say a lot of things have changed.
"We have the example of the English, when they won the Euro (in 2022). We saw a real change…
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If Germany win their group and England win theirs....
England vs Germany in the quarters in Sydney.
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Emma Hayes talks about having lunch with Graham Potter and Todd Boehly the other day.
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Emma Hayes to Sky on Catarina Macario: "I love her to bits, she's a great human. I knew bringing her to Chelsea we'd have to go backwards before going forwards. To the Chelsea fans, I'm leaving you a superb player, she's a world-class striker for a long-term."
#chelseafcw
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To the people who complain about goalkeeping in women’s football:
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Morocco: The first ever African nation to reach a World Cup semi-final.
#MAR
#WorldCup2022
Pic: Getty
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Three weeks ago, Barcelona broke the women‘s attendance record with 91.553 there to watch them against Real Madrid.
Tonight they break it again with 91,648 against Wolfsburg.
The two biggest attendances in Europe (men‘s or women‘s) this season are
#UWCL
games.
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Mull of Kintyre before Forest games is one my favourite football things.
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Munich City Council want the Allianz to be lit up in the colours of the rainbow when Germany face Hungary.
Orban’s government have recently passed legislation banning schools from discussing LGBT issues. Gay marriage is still not legal in the country.
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50,000 tickets have been sold for the Women‘s FA Cup final on Sunday.
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NEW: Manchester United supporters’ group
@The__1958
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They will be taking action against club sponsors via social media and google ads.
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Kim Little and Tash Harding hold a Ukrainian flag in the centre circle as the teams hold a minute's applause to show their solidarity with Ukraine.
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If you thought the World Cup was good, we‘ve got the Carabao back this week.
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This is a really interesting comment from a parent of one of the Latvian players.
Have to agree when she says there are a lot of people in the country trying hard to improve women's football – their online media presence for the women's team is incredible.
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Loud boos inside the ground as Jorge Vilda's name is read out with the lineups.
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A moment which will go down in English footballing history
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In the week that Cristiano Ronaldo knocked the phone out of a young fan’s hand, Kenny Shiels says that women don’t take conceding goals well as they’re more emotional than men.
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91,553 at Camp Nou for Barcelona vs Real Madrid in the
#UWCL
. 91,553.
Remember, though, that apparently nobody cares about women's football.
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Casey Stoney may have moved across the pond and not managed for nearly a year, but the iconic use of a water cooler as a chair has remained.
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People are annoyed that Alex Scott hasn’t played professional men’s football and will be hosting football focus?
She’s replacing Dan Walker. Last time I checked he’s not been a professional athlete of any kind. She’s also got a degree in sports writing and broadcasting.
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This is excellent in the MoS this morning.
Somebody needs to show this piece to Kenny Shiels. Premier League teams concede their third, fourth, and fifth goals more quickly than those in the WSL.
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I’m told that Manchester United have sold 25,000 tickets for this weekend’s WSL game against Everton at Old Trafford. Tickets still available via .
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Vivianne Miedema has scored 100 goals in 110 games for Arsenal. Can you really claim that anyone else is the best player of all time?
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Sarina Wiegman, Leah Williamson and Beth Mead are all set to be appointed an MBE, OBE or CBE in the King’s New Year’s Honours List, reports Martyn Ziegler in tomorrow’s Times.
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Unprompted, Brendan Rodgers: "I've obviously never met Emma [Hayes] before... she's done an amazing job for women's football. All the things that you're doing are really helping women's football progress. As a fellow coach, watching from outside, you've done amazing."
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Rob Holding’s IG story: the Arsenal players with a shirt reading “Thinking of you Beth” after today’s NLD win.
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NEW: Ireland BCD
#FIFAWWC
friendly with Colombia was abandoned today after 20 minutes of play after the game became "overly physical".
FAI statement says It was decided following consultation with match officials to end the game.
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No player has created more chances from open play in the Premier League this season than Bruno Fernandes (32).
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This is just as impressive (also from Fed Square). Show this video to people and I bet they wouldn’t guess it’s Australia.
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Alex Morgan and Megan Rapinoe make the Globe Soccer best Women‘s Player of the Year shortlist… somehow.
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UEFA's POTM is Selma Bacha. Van Domselaar for me. I do not get that.
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Where are all the people saying that this sort of thing is why they never watch men’s football?
It’s easy to share clips of errors which happen in every game out of context. If this was a woman then it would have been shared far and wide.
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It’s now official: There have been as many own goals scored in Euro 2020 as all previous European Championships combined.
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London NYE Fireworks opening was about the Lionesses, by the way, if you want to know once again just how big a moment the win was for last year.
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