Big Story
It's not often a 6-2 loss is taken to presage a "nation's arrival on the big stage", but that's the
reaction today in the Guardian from Anna Kessel on the England's women's team's
defeat in the UEFA European Championship final to Germany last night.
The FA has announced today an 8 club Women's Super League commencing in 2011, originally this was
for 2010 but due to financial uncertainty following UK television broadcasters Setanta collapse,
it has been delayed a year. The FA hopes this will stop England players leaving for America and FA
Chairman Lord Triesman said "The launch of [.
It might not be getting the 16 page pullout supplements in every newspaper that the Barclay's
Premier League is, but the F.A. Women's Premier League also kicks-off this weekend. The shadow of
the men's game (as well as the women's European Championships going on concurrently) obviously
looms over the season's launch, but so does a black cloud over the future prospects for women's
football in England as a whole.
Yesterday I went to the London FA Female Football Forum at White Hart Lane. It was a great
opportunity to hear more about the progression of the Women's game and to meet the others who had
gone to the event. I admit feeling a little bit of pressure as they said they all want to [...]
It looks like the Women's Super League in England, a new semi-professional venture (not fully
professional, as some are saying), will finally launch in 2011 and the application process is now
open for clubs who wish to participate.
The plan is for eight teams to compete in a summer season from March to October, thus minimising
schedule conflicts with the men's game but also going up directly against Women's Professional
Soccer in the United States.
