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It's been another hugely significant week for the WSL, | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
both on and off the pitch, but rest assured, we've got it | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
all covered on tonight's Women's Football Show. | :00:44. | :00:49. | |
Could Chelsea climb to the summit of WSL1 with a win | :00:50. | :00:51. | |
Victory over Sunderland would boost Birmingham's hopes of securing | :00:52. | :00:58. | |
And we focus on the future, as the FA points the WSL | :00:59. | :01:06. | |
And with us on the sofa this evening two guests who have seen plenty | :01:07. | :01:16. | |
of positive change during their time in the game, Alex Scott | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
It's on the pitch we begin, though, with Chelsea | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
The Blues were unbeaten against the Gunners in their last | :01:24. | :01:32. | |
five WSL1 meetings, including April's 2-0 win at Meadow Park. | :01:33. | :01:40. | |
COMMENTATOR: Arsenal against Chelsea: always heated. Oh, that's | :01:41. | :01:54. | |
so close. It's awkward. The Arsenal defence horribly hesitant and in she | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
nipped at the Chelsea ahead. She has perhaps kept Arsenal in the game. | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
She scores for the second time this evening. This will be a mighty blow | :02:05. | :02:06. | |
to Arsenal's title hopes already. Let's have a look at the teams, | :02:07. | :02:17. | |
Chelsea are without captain Katie Chapman, suspended in the last | :02:18. | :02:29. | |
match. Aluko, who scored from the bench last time out, rewarded with a | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
start this time. Danielle Carter has not played since going to win | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
against Chelsea but she is back and in from the start. | :02:40. | :02:51. | |
Davison, a chance for her to stretch her legs. Look at this run from | :02:52. | :02:58. | |
Rafferty on the left, instead goes right for Blondel. Davison is on the | :02:59. | :03:05. | |
edge of the area, she goes down. The referee had a really long look at | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
that. Loud appeals from Chelsea but no penalty. The crowd are rarely are | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
not happy about this decision. She stuck her foot out, that's a | :03:15. | :03:24. | |
penalty. Forward here. Scott. Not the greatest of pass backs and it is | :03:25. | :03:31. | |
an own goal! And in such a crucial game, a London derby, so important | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
for both of these sides, it is quite simply an awful way for Arsenal to | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
go a goal behind. I just think it was lack of concentration really. | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
She fed the ball out, got it back, a disappointing concede for Arsenal. | :03:48. | :03:55. | |
What a wonderful ball. Spence can make it two! Great save by the | :03:56. | :04:07. | |
keeper, needed to show a response to the way that Arsenal conceded the | :04:08. | :04:09. | |
opener, and there is one. Mitchell forward from left back, | :04:10. | :04:24. | |
darting run by Carter. It comes off Blondel, and to Carter. Corner kick | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
to Arsenal. Williams will take it now. It is an | :04:28. | :04:41. | |
equalising goal for Arsenal! Really well work set piece routine. The | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
movement, she just manages to get in front of the player a little bit | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
bigger than her. Just that little movement, gets her head on it, | :04:52. | :04:52. | |
terrific ball. Almost got to that, stretching for | :04:53. | :04:59. | |
it. Spence. Rafferty strikes one. Bright | :05:00. | :05:22. | |
is in there, and Flaherty, the stand-in captain is as well. | :05:23. | :05:24. | |
Dangerous moments, these for Arsenal. Sliced shot by Farhi. It is | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
brilliant, and saved by the keeper. The way she can move the ball. As a | :05:31. | :05:40. | |
defender you don't want to lunge in because you just take her out. You | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
would give away a penalty. Chelsea trying to keep the gunners tend in | :05:47. | :05:56. | |
here. Bailey. She has Spence in support. The is true Spence. Tries | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
to disguise the passport Aluko! What a hit. Arsenal are hanging on here. | :06:02. | :06:14. | |
Two excellent pieces of play in. Aluko was stretching. Just the frame | :06:15. | :06:22. | |
of the goal. Blondel. Full of running. She has got that as well, | :06:23. | :06:30. | |
Aluko worked in the middle, what a chance. Glorious opportunity for | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
Chelsea to take the lead. Instant impact from | :06:37. | :06:46. | |
Now Arsenal at the other end of threatening. Great chance, tight | :06:47. | :06:54. | |
angle, it didn't matter! Hit is an absolutely sensational finish! From | :06:55. | :07:03. | |
the talented Dutch, Daniela Vanderpool. Brilliantly taken. A | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
great goal to win any game. Can they hold onto it, Arsenal? Jie, it is | :07:10. | :07:24. | |
true to Aluko! Saved by the keeper and behind for a corner. She might | :07:25. | :07:30. | |
have made the mistake that C's coral, but since then she has made | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
two or three games save in saves. To be cruelly undone with an | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
opportunity where we get the opportunity to go to- one up, and | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
they go down the opposite end and score in transition. I did thing I | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
have been involved in a cooler game. We were the better team, our game | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
plan was effective, we created the most clear-cut chances. In all | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
fairness, our goalkeeper hasn't had a save to make any we are on the | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
losing side. We had a blatant penalty in the first time but he | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
wasn't brave enough to make the difference. At this level it is a | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
clear problem. MSAs felt that Chelsea were the better side, how do | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
you feel about that? It goes back to when you talk about possessions that | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
and how money shot should have had on goal, but we were clinical, we | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
had the chances and finish them. But you did not get off to the best | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
start. I wanted to give the guy is a talking point! As soon as the ball | :08:26. | :08:32. | |
came to me, I was getting close down, by Rafferty and Aluko, for my | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
eyeliner, I knew where the goalkeeper was, but she had moved. | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
It is my mistake. I know as a defender, and Rachel will back me | :08:42. | :08:44. | |
up, you don't play the ball back to the goal. It is my fault. Rachel, | :08:45. | :08:52. | |
you are wincing watching that. You play the ball, you give a supporting | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
angle, and the goalkeeper did that, and as Alex said, the ball should be | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
played to the outside of the post. It is a misplaced pass but you did | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
not expected to end up in the goal, and it shouldn't have done. Moving | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
on, Chelsea have conceded more goals so far than they did the rest of | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
last season, was there anything particular you are targeting? If | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
it's interesting MSAs talking about the game and -- their game plan, | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
because -- it interesting that MS holies was talking about it. We knew | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
there would be vulnerable down the channels. From our second goal that | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
is where you see that. You got your equaliser from a set piece, letters | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
take a look. It was beautiful, the flight of the ball from Pharrell | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
Williams. It is that that Jade Bailey should be covering, the | :09:40. | :09:46. | |
chances and a half. But it is the timing of her run, she takes away | :09:47. | :09:49. | |
from true Spence, who was marking her. The speed of that ball whipped | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
in from Williams. All she has to do is change the direction of the ball | :09:54. | :10:00. | |
and it goes in. Just her energy and movement, she is pointing to where | :10:01. | :10:03. | |
she wants the ball. You have to say, Natalia as well, the weight of that | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
pass and to finish at that acute angle. It is beautiful. From the | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
goalie's out of you, she comes out but doesn't go smashing down at the | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
player. If you decide to go, you have got to wipe out the ball and | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
the player and take one or the other. It is the last minute of the | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
game and ultimately that is what cost Chelsea. Going into this game | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
as well, we were worried about Chelsea in the transition phase. So | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
if we attack, them coming straight back at Assen it is funny that we | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
did that to them for the second goal. Emma Hayes was quoted as | :10:37. | :10:43. | |
saying that women's football deserves a better standard of | :10:44. | :10:46. | |
officials after seeing her side denied a penalty. What do you think? | :10:47. | :10:53. | |
Definitely a penalty. Gemma Davison is clever, makes the players commit | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
and Emma Mitchell does leave a foot out. Whether it makes football with | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
Gemma Davison, whether she is playing for it, doesn't matter. The | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
assistant referee is in a great position to help them out and it is | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
a penalty. I suppose Chelsea feel hard done by, losses and they were | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
getting those goals but they are not now, but that is football. We | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
complain during the Cisma should have had penalty calls but in the | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
game it went away. The referees are National League standard. Is that | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
the right level in the WSL? I didn't think so, the game has moved on. | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
Maybe two or three years ago it was, but now teams are fully professional | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
teams and it should be reflected in the standard of referees. They | :11:35. | :11:37. | |
should be at least football league standard. Going into these big games | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
as well, it could go either way from a poor decision and that is not fair | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
on the way the women's game is going. Emma Hayes was heated but it | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
was also pretty hot of the Arsenal dressing at half-time. Over to you, | :11:50. | :11:55. | |
Alex, what was going on? I'm not going to name no names, but as we | :11:56. | :11:58. | |
were walking into the changing room at half-time, one of our players | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
heard their staff saying make sure the heating is turned up. So we | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
thought if you are doing that, we will do the team talk outside. | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
Whether they were going to do that or not, we don't know. | :12:10. | :12:11. | |
We head to the Midlands next, where Birmingham were aiming | :12:12. | :12:14. | |
to extend their eight match unbeaten run, when they faced Sunderland. | :12:15. | :12:16. | |
In the commentary box for us was Nigel Adderley. | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
Commentary macro aside from the title race Birmingham's resurgence | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
is one of the talks of the season. Carlton Fairweather has switched to | :12:25. | :12:40. | |
three at the back. Stephanie Roche drops to the bench to allow Stefanie | :12:41. | :12:46. | |
Banner to return. Sunderland would have been mightily relieved to | :12:47. | :12:49. | |
finally get their first league win of the season against Doncaster last | :12:50. | :12:56. | |
week. It will be tough here today. Birmingham don't score many, they | :12:57. | :12:59. | |
concede even fewer, and here is Wellings. Strong enough to ride the | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
initial challenge, and she then goes beyond Haley Sharp. A fine save from | :13:06. | :13:12. | |
ritual laws. Charlie Wellings, one of the youngsters who has really | :13:13. | :13:13. | |
shone this season for Birmingham. Allen stands firm, then Stringer | :13:14. | :13:28. | |
becomes involved. It just threatens to get a wee bit nasty before the | :13:29. | :13:30. | |
referee gives the free kick. That is a decent delivery! And their | :13:31. | :13:41. | |
header from havoc is kept out again by Laws. Birmingham to make the most | :13:42. | :13:44. | |
of set pieces. Brown's throw in. It falls to | :13:45. | :13:55. | |
Staniforth. Now Chaplain, possibilities here for Sunderland. | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
Furness with the shot, which was a trundle in the end. And routine for | :14:00. | :14:08. | |
the keeper. One of a number of new players, which have transformed this | :14:09. | :14:15. | |
Birmingham team. Once again, Birmingham are a very junior ball | :14:16. | :14:17. | |
unit but they do have some quality and here is Lawley, and she has | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
played in the Heather Berg. An excellent block to deny the | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
Norwegian international. Sunderland finally smuggle the ball clear. | :14:27. | :14:33. | |
Looking for her first league goal. Terrific defending from Hayley | :14:34. | :14:35. | |
Sharp. Birmingham's leading goal scorer | :14:36. | :14:46. | |
this season, even though she only has three. And now Lawley, who has | :14:47. | :14:54. | |
really shone so far today. And a deflection, close to an own goal, | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
and it was Stefanie Bannen at the near post. She will be great for | :15:00. | :15:07. | |
ritual laws was alert to the danger. Carter. -- Rachael Burrows. The | :15:08. | :15:12. | |
initial ball was caught out. Here is Lyndon. Appeals for handball as it | :15:13. | :15:18. | |
strikes Bannen, but nothing given by the referee. The German | :15:19. | :15:28. | |
international quickly into the action and the arms were raised. | :15:29. | :15:37. | |
Here is Lawley once again. She is too quick. It is another terrific | :15:38. | :15:46. | |
cross. The final touch was gratefully dropped on. | :15:47. | :16:34. | |
The girls have worked as hard as they have. Given the way that a goal | :16:35. | :16:42. | |
from a set piece, we had opportunities to clear it and we | :16:43. | :16:45. | |
didn't. Against a team like Birmingham, you will get punished. | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
Everyone knows we are good at the back and organised but I want to see | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
more goals, more attacking play from us, get in more advanced options and | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
be more expressive and Nepal. We are starting to do that on the break | :16:58. | :17:00. | |
now, moving forward. We have different dynamics in the group and | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
I want people to start recognising the quality we have here and what we | :17:05. | :17:07. | |
are building as a couple club. Birmingham got the win but they have | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
to be patient. Sunderland will be disappointed, having stood firm to | :17:12. | :17:16. | |
88 minutes. They will, because that has been Sunderland's problem, not | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
only not scoring but licking a lot of goals. To hold firm for the | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
majority of the game, to leak it from a set piece they will be | :17:25. | :17:27. | |
disappointed. A long throw from Jess Carter into the box. This should go | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
forward. It should go out of the box, high and wide header. It ends | :17:32. | :17:37. | |
up causing the Sunderland goalkeeper a problem, backpedalling, tips it | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
onto the bar and who react? Young Charlie Wellings. She must be so | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
excited. She reacts and the defenders don't. When you know the | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
team has a long throw, sometimes you turn to over concentrate on the | :17:51. | :17:53. | |
first phase of the set play when it is really the second of it that you | :17:54. | :17:56. | |
can be undone by and that is what happened with Sunderland. | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
We heard David Parker wanting Birmingham to be more progressive on | :18:02. | :18:08. | |
the ball. Birmingham have done well the first part of the season. She's | :18:09. | :18:14. | |
come in and she's been in the league for years because she's so direct | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
when she gets the ball, she uses it so effectively. She looks, her first | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
ball is forward. Sometimes players can play side ways or backwards. | :18:23. | :18:28. | |
That can put you under pressure. She's got everything in the armoury, | :18:29. | :18:33. | |
she can spray the ball out wide. She plays one and two touches. She moves | :18:34. | :18:38. | |
off the ball really well. We've seen her in other games organising the | :18:39. | :18:42. | |
team around her. A lovely little dip of the shoulder and a switch of | :18:43. | :18:45. | |
play. She's pretty much everywhere and central to everything that | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
Birmingham are doing. She's also, you know, creating chances for | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
herself and those goals will come. We talked about officiating earlier | :18:54. | :18:56. | |
in the show. It wasn't as costly for Birmingham, but should they have had | :18:57. | :19:03. | |
a penalty? No, definitely not. It would have been harsh. When we see | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
the clip, the Sunderland defender, as the ball strikes her hand is in | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
front of her chest. It wouldn't make any difference to the direction of | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
the ball. For me, completely no penalty at all. I agree with Rachel | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
there. I would have felt hard done by. The right decision there. | :19:21. | :19:34. | |
Notts County faced a tricky trip to in-form Liverpool | :19:35. | :19:36. | |
They had, however, beaten the Reds in their previous four encounters. | :19:37. | :19:39. | |
Notts count yay rived at the stadium searching for their first away win | :19:40. | :19:46. | |
this season. They came close to taking the lead early on. This | :19:47. | :19:52. | |
glancing header cleared off the line by Alex Greenwood. The reds required | :19:53. | :20:00. | |
more last ditch defending later. Potter picking out Clark. Her cross | :20:01. | :20:06. | |
turned behind with both White and Williams ready to pounce. Liverpool | :20:07. | :20:13. | |
were unbeat anyone their previous four WSL 1 games and began to grow | :20:14. | :20:19. | |
into the match. Last week's goal scorers against Reading combined. | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
But unable to test the keeper with this effort. The goal was under | :20:24. | :20:32. | |
threat again. The home continued to create chances after the break. A | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
superb delivery into the box. Unable to make the most of an excellent | :20:38. | :20:44. | |
opportunity. Notts County will be without their first-choice | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
goalkeeper following surgery for an ankle injury. | :20:49. | :20:55. | |
Liverpool then just about in touch with the chasing pack. | :20:56. | :21:01. | |
Despite not playing for two weeks, Manchester City still | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
And the inconsistency of fixtures was on the agenda | :21:06. | :21:15. | |
at Wembley last week, as the FA made a huge announcement | :21:16. | :21:17. | |
April 2011 provided a watershed moment for women's | :21:18. | :21:27. | |
In a move to professionalise the game, the Football Association | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
launched the WSL, its first ever semi-professional league, | :21:33. | :21:34. | |
which would be played between April and October. | :21:35. | :21:36. | |
After five years of significant growth, both on and off the pitch, | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
the FA reconvened at the national stadium last week to unveil | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
its latest blueprint for the future of the women's game. | :21:45. | :21:51. | |
Following the euros in 2017, we'll go into a winter season, which will | :21:52. | :21:57. | |
start in September and end in May. It will mirror the men's season. | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
You've got to remember that the rest of the women's football period is in | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
the winter. I don't just mean the senior pyramid, grass-roots. When | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
you look at aligning competitions and moving young players through the | :22:12. | :22:14. | |
levels, it's a bit more easy when they play at the same time. We hope | :22:15. | :22:20. | |
this can be a game changer. It gives a chance to kick off. | :22:21. | :22:22. | |
To remove the prospect of a ten-month period | :22:23. | :22:24. | |
without competitive football ahead of the European Championships, | :22:25. | :22:26. | |
a one-off transitional competition will be played, | :22:27. | :22:29. | |
Each side will play each other once in a league format with no | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
relegation between February and June 2017, before the new format | :22:35. | :22:37. | |
begins in September, which will also include | :22:38. | :22:38. | |
We think it will be easier to get a more consistent fixture programme | :22:39. | :22:52. | |
that will get better and more regular access to grounds and that | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
we hope to build a high performance system for players to achieve | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
wearing their England shirt. I look at it as an international manager. I | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
look at player welfare, making sure we give our players every possible | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
chance with the best athlete and player they can be and give the | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
teams to be better teams and players. As a natural result the | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
national team will improve as well. We've made a courageous call. It | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
might not work out for us, but we have to make the decisions we feel | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
are right to give this team every possible chance of winning European | :23:28. | :23:31. | |
Championships and winning world cups on a consistent basis. To do that we | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
need a strong, vibrant, successful women's Super League. We want it to | :23:37. | :23:40. | |
be an iconic competition for women so that we see women athletes at | :23:41. | :23:47. | |
their very best, you know, competitive, fit, healthy, | :23:48. | :23:49. | |
technically, tactically good, so that young girls look at that and | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
say, you know, crikey, I want to be one of those. That's what we want, | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
we want an iconic league. Lots of factors have been taken into | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
account. Player welfare is a key priority, do you understand why the | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
change has been made? I do. From a players' perspective, it has been | :24:08. | :24:10. | |
frustrating with the fixtures. Can you go for periods without having a | :24:11. | :24:14. | |
game for two, three weeks. Then you are playing three off the back. | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
That's been the main thing. We'd like to see more consistency. I know | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
the winter league will help. I know what Mark's meaning when he touches | :24:23. | :24:26. | |
on player welfare. When you're playing so many fixtures | :24:27. | :24:29. | |
back-to-back and catching up, you don't get the quality time to do | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
your gym work or time on the pitch to develop as a player. So I think | :24:35. | :24:37. | |
with more consistency in the fixtures that will help players. | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
Mark Samson has said he will have more time with the players and | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
they'll be match tough. Why? Yeah, to clarify that. Some of the | :24:46. | :24:51. | |
fixtures, the domestic fixtures won't be butted together with the | :24:52. | :24:54. | |
international fixtures. After an Arsenal game, for instance, there'll | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
be a couple of days where they get a chance to recover. They will go into | :24:59. | :25:04. | |
camp fresh and can have good, efficient and quality time together | :25:05. | :25:08. | |
as a squad preparing for a game. Hopefully that will look after | :25:09. | :25:10. | |
players and they will avoid injury. Will that make a difference when it | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
comes to winning major tournaments? Definitely. If you're making the | :25:15. | :25:18. | |
league stronger, that improves your national players. That makes the | :25:19. | :25:21. | |
England team better. Like I just said, I think it goes back to the | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
point, the regular training, the regular work, you have time to do | :25:26. | :25:28. | |
that. If you're playing constant fixtures you haven't because it's | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
about recovery. They should make teams more competitive when it comes | :25:33. | :25:35. | |
to the Champions League, which has a winter schedule. It aligns the | :25:36. | :25:38. | |
league with the likes of the German and French league, who are all | :25:39. | :25:42. | |
perennial challengers for the Champions League trophy. Hopefully | :25:43. | :25:45. | |
it will give our Champions League teams the best chance of peaking at | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
the right time to start winning silverware in that department. So | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
this is all good. But what are the challenges? What needs to happen for | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
this to be a success? My only concern is with the summer league | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
you have families coming to the gale and switching to the winter league | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
will they continue to come when it's freezing cold. It's English weather | :26:07. | :26:08. | |
for you - that could be happening right now! You hope for women's | :26:09. | :26:19. | |
football it's such a brave decision, I hope it pushes women's football to | :26:20. | :26:23. | |
the next level. We want the women's game to keep moving to new levels. | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
Compared to five years ago, when the summer league was launched, one of | :26:29. | :26:31. | |
the reasons was because of better availability of pitches. Because the | :26:32. | :26:35. | |
standards have improved, we have better facilities, the pitches won't | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
be an issue. Having them in the winter, yes the weather will be | :26:40. | :26:42. | |
poor, but the standard of the surface is better. Look at | :26:43. | :26:46. | |
Borehamwood, it's a wonderful surface. Look the Manchester City, | :26:47. | :26:50. | |
brand new stadium, great pitch. Hopefully, pitches will not be an | :26:51. | :26:54. | |
issue. Overall, what would your assessment be? I love the fact that | :26:55. | :26:58. | |
it's aligned with the men's league, so they can use the commercial value | :26:59. | :27:04. | |
of men's clubs to really enhance the spotlight of women's football. So | :27:05. | :27:07. | |
it's not going to be overshadowed bit men's playing. It will be | :27:08. | :27:12. | |
enhanced. The resources at the disposal of the women's clubs go | :27:13. | :27:17. | |
hand in hand with the men's. Any promotional material, the women's | :27:18. | :27:21. | |
teams can be jump on the back of the men's teams. It remains to be seen | :27:22. | :27:27. | |
which sides from WSL 2 will start the new winter calendar in the top | :27:28. | :27:29. | |
flight. Just enough time for a bit | :27:30. | :27:42. | |
of action from WSL2. Leaders Yeovil travelled | :27:43. | :27:45. | |
to Everton on Sunday, but they come unstuck, | :27:46. | :27:46. | |
as the Toffees bounced back from successive defeats | :27:47. | :27:48. | |
with a commanding performance. Chloe Kelly setting her side | :27:49. | :27:50. | |
on the way to a 3-0 win That moves Everton to win six points | :27:51. | :27:53. | |
of Yeovil. Andy Spence's side also still have | :27:54. | :28:00. | |
two games in hand on the Glovers. Just enough time to reveal that | :28:01. | :28:03. | |
England's next home game, where they will look to secure top | :28:04. | :28:07. | |
spot in Euro Qualifying Group 7 against Estonia, will be played | :28:08. | :28:10. | |
at Notts County's Meadow Lane You'll be able to see that game live | :28:11. | :28:12. | |
on the BBC TWO at 7.05pm. Before that, we're back next | :28:13. | :28:23. | |
Monday with highlights from Manchester City's trip | :28:24. | :28:25. | |
to Notts County - 23.15 on BBC Two So plenty of change ahead | :28:26. | :28:28. | |
for the Women's Super League, but one thing is sure to remain | :28:29. | :28:37. | |
the same: the race to become champions of WSL1 is going to be | :28:38. | :28:40. | |
just as thrilling as ever. | :28:41. | :28:44. |