"Being a doctor or being a scientist I would be recognised by thousands of people. But being a footballer, I'm followed by millions." It's a statement that leaves you wondering what it must feel like to have over a billion of your countrymen and women watch your every move from thousands of miles away but …
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In the latest meets podcast Chris is joined by Scotland international and FC Rosengård attacker Fiona Brown to discuss her path from Dunblane to the Damallsvenskan and everything in between. Including coming through at Celtic and success at Glasgow City to coming back from not just one but three ACL injuries and to her current …
Continue reading LTL Podcast Ep. 87 – Leading the Line Meets Fiona Brown
In the latest Leading the Line Meets Chris is joined by FC Pirin Blagoevgrad goalkeeper Jeni Currie to share her life in behind the gloves from youth football at Mussleburgh Windsor to Hibernian to playing pro under the Pirin Mountains in one of women's football's most most unlikely of outposts, Bulgaria. The Leading the Line …
Continue reading LTL Podcast Ep. 86 – Leading the Line Meets Jeni Currie
Chris is back and on this occasion is joined by Pitea IF defender Cailin Michie. They discuss her successful spell at Hibernian, how the move to Sweden came about and her transition to full time football, life living just outside the Arctic Circle and her future ambitions before as always rounding things off with some …
Continue reading LTL Podcast. Ep. 54 – Leading the Line Meets Cailin Michie
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 …
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
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 …
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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
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 …
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 …
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