A lot can happen in nine months. For Scottish women's football it can cover the entirety of a season contrasting the most exuberant of highs with the most despairing of lows. An emotional rollercoaster that can leave your skin tingling as endorphins pulsate through every pore one minute before rising nausea grows from the pit … Continue reading The Long Read: Motherhood
Women’s Football Around the World
LTL Podcast Ep. 37 – Women’s Football in Northern Ireland
For this special look at women's football in Northern Ireland and it's growing influence on the Scottish game Chris Marshall (@MFPTasty) is joined by Laura Clarke (@Clarkie8) to discuss how the game is growing in her home country, the impact of Northern Irish players on this season's SWPL and how the national side have been … Continue reading LTL Podcast Ep. 37 – Women’s Football in Northern Ireland
Women’s Football Around the World: Atlético de Madrid Femenino
We spend a lot of time on Leading the Line talking about fan experience with the desire to increase support and coverage of women's football becoming heightened as a new Scottish season starts to emerge on the horizon. With that in mind editor, Chris Marshall, used a December trip to Madrid to see how things … Continue reading Women’s Football Around the World: Atlético de Madrid Femenino
Women’s Football Travels: Women’s World Cup – France 2019
This article first appeared in the July issue of Football Weekends magazine however things have happened so I'm now unleashing it on anybody who wasn't able to pick up the magazine, it follows my travels to France for this summer's World Cup including two games in Paris and a Scotland defeat in Rennes. It's a long read so settle in … Continue reading Women’s Football Travels: Women’s World Cup – France 2019
Real Madrid Feminino, Finally.
It's long been a point of debate. How can the richest club in the world (as published in the most recently collated Money League by financial services firm Deloitte) not have a women's football side? Especially in a country where world attendance records have been set (This season Atletico Madrid took on Barcelona at the … Continue reading Real Madrid Feminino, Finally.
Amelia del Castillo: La Pionera
Situated halfway between the centre of Spain's capital Madrid and the picturesque day-tripper destination of Aranjuez the community of Pinto is not the kind of place where you would expect a revolution to have begun, never mind one that would not only have a lasting impact on women's football in the Iberian Peninsula but on … Continue reading Amelia del Castillo: La Pionera
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