Well, this is getting very very real. Thanks for the lovely words for the cover @mPinoe, @AdaStolsmo, @clarebalding, @IanWright0 and @Fizzer181. Published on 16th June by @FaberBooks 🇬🇧, @TriumphBooks 🇺🇸 and @hakusuisha 🇯🇵. You can pre-order at: https://t.co/dHkgITfoDR

Sat down with the Guardian football of the year 2025, Jess Carter, for this wonderful and insightful interview. Brilliant player, brilliant person, remarkable year on and off the pitch. It could have easily been quadruple the length. https://t.co/3VT5oJLyTX

The Guardian Footballer of the Year Jess Carter: ‘I remember not wanting to go out’

Myself and @m_christenson are jumping on a Reddit ask me anything shortly relating to the Guardian's women's and men's top 100 footballers lists. Feel free to stick any questions you've got in:

𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐂𝐊 | A WOMAN'S GAME by @SuzyWrack The astonishing history of the rise, fall, and rise again of women's football, from the late 19th century to the present day. @guardian_sport @FaberBooks 🛒 https://t.co/CIibZ9cYxj

A BIT OF A MOAN AND A PLEA.... This shouldn't need to be said but unfortunately it keeps happening again and again. I know these words will probably have no effect but it is better than just sitting by doing nothing. More and more frequently, the work of others in the game is

Thoughts on the game? Questions? Comments? Feel free to email/message Emillia on today's live blog (email link at the top) https://t.co/O3aXZr0tie

So grim, yet so unsurprising. We (journalists) get a lot of abusive posts/DMs on social media (I don’t mean criticism, that’s fine, I mean proper abuse/threats), it’s tough sometimes, and it’s a tiny fraction comparatively to what players and managers get day-in day-out.

Also, the work that goes into producing the list of knowledgeable judges and getting them on board, then pulling it all together, by @m_christenson and @RichJLaverty, is STAGGERING. Very proud to work with people so dedicated to high quality coverage of women’s football.

And the top 10 is in! Thoughts? Agree? Disagree? Remember, see my earlier post about how the list is created, via combined votes of many judges and every judges list will likely look different to the final outcome. https://t.co/xxr15dS47L

FYI, important to remember how the judging works https://t.co/CHDtSqjxei. Each judge (ex-players, coaches, journos) ranks their top 40, then that informs the list. So my top 40, for example, will potentially look very different to the eventual top 40 as it’s combined.

The top 10 is out soon… here’s 100-11 The 100 best female footballers in the world 2025 – Nos 100-11

Done the podcast double. 🏆 🏆

I got some funny looks from the tables I passed as a grabbed my trophy and SPRINTED to the lobby for a photo with the main man, I knew he wouldn’t want to miss the opportunity to celebrate the Guardian Women’s Football Weekly podcast win.

Get in!

Let it all work out. ❤️

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𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐂𝐊 | A WOMAN'S GAME by @SuzyWrack The astonishing history of the rise, fall, and rise again of women's football, from the late 19th century to the present day. @guardian_sport @FaberBooks 🛒 https://t.co/CIibZ9cYxj

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