“Campaign” is almost the Word of the Year in women’s sport. New initiatives are springing up in every quarter. It’s almost as if nobody had shown any adventurousness in the past; yet there’s been plenty. These initiatives can adopt different names: “programme” is very popular, then we find “launch”, “mission” and “development”. Here are a
Stella Mills of Wasps has voiced her complaints (https://www.rugbypass.com/news/i-looked-at-the-circle-of-players-around-me-and-every-single-one-cringed/) about the use of the word ‘lady’ as Wasps become the last of the ten Premier 15s clubs to shed the term in their title. The real source of the problem is the English language, which is slow to pick up on the latest changes in
This has been an incredible year for women’s sport and we are hoping that 2018 will serve up more of the same. My two favourite moments were the Roses win over Ireland to win the Grand Slam for the first time since 2012, and then to be at Lord’s to witness England’s cricketers win the
While applauding the introduction of Women’s Super Rugby I have to admit to being completely baffled about the way in which this new league had been introduced. I should at this point state that these are my own opinions, that I am not an expert on any sport at all simply a fan; this website
Ever since first seeing cycling on the TV I have wanted to go to the Velodrome and yesterday I got my wish with a visit to the World Championships at Lee Valley. The first surprise was the air lock system at the door, to keep the stadium at a constant temperature. The second that struck
Why is it that although the ITV cameras were at Twickenham to televise the England men playing Ireland in the 6 Nations on Saturday, the women’s match, played directly afterwards, could not be televised too. Is it enough that the women’s team have the ‘honour’ of playing at Twickenham once a year? Three times this
Of course you get prestige and celebrity, the honour of getting to play at Wembley Stadium, the amazing trophy and prize money, except that if you’re playing in the Women’s FA Cup Final, the prize will barely cover the cost of you getting there. So one area that hopefully the FA will address, as they
Trouble would appear to be brewing between Clubs and the RFU after the peremptory announcement that contracted women’s Sevens players will not play any part of the 2015/2016 playing season in preparation for the 2016 Olympics in Rio. The reason is apparently ‘player welfare’. In the meantime the clubs will have to work out how
I attempted to read another article on the Women’s World Cup yesterday, that someone had tagged as interesting – it started with something like – let’s face it women are not as good at football as men and this could be proven because the women’s team could never beat Roy Hodgson’s men’s team … Now
The Women’s World Cup First Stage is over and we say goodbye to the Ivory Coast, Ecuador, Nigeria, Spain, Mexico, Thailand and Costa Rica – all of them have added value to the tournament and shown that increasing the number of teams to 24 was the right thing to do. Many people will be surprised
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