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It’s getting annoying now

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

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Women’s World Cup : Quarter Final Draw

The last eight teams are now known and some interesting matches are thrown up.  China will make the USA work, but can they overcome the strong USA team? Germany v France is perhaps the pick of the ties with both teams hitting form, Germany have in their side the two leading scorers of the tournament so far;

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A little bit of history!

England claimed their place in the quarter finals with an emphatic second half performance against Norway last night. As predicted, and perhaps dreaded, the first half was a cagey affair and England played with just Toni Duggan fighting a lost cause up front, isolated and losing out constantly to the solid Norwegian defence.  England struggled

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FIFA Women’s World Cup : Results : Last Sixteen

FIFA Women’s World Cup : Results : Last Sixteen Game 44: Canada 1-0 Switzerland (Belanger 52′) Game 43: Norway 1-2 England (Gulbrandsen 54′) (Houghton 61′, Bronze 76′) Game 42: Japan 2-1Netherlands (Japan: Ariyoshi 10′, Sakaguchi 78′) (Netherlands: Van ven Ven 90’+2′) Game 41: Brazil 0-1 Australia (Simon 80′) Game 40: France 3-0 Korea Rep (Delie 4′, 48′,

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Onto the last 16

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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FIFA Women’s World Cup : Results

FIFA Women’s World Cup Game 36: England 2-1 Colombia (England: Carney 15′, Williams 38′ P) (Colombia: Andrade 90’+4′) Game 35: Mexico 0-5 France (Delie 1′, J Ruiz 9′ OG, Le Sommer 13′, 36′, Henry 80′) Game 34: Korea Rep 2-1 Spain (Korea: Cho Sohyun 53′, Kim Sooyun 78′) (Spain: Vero: 29′) Game 33: Costa Rica 0-1 Brazil

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