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Vivianne Miedema: ‘Women’s football is proud to be inclusive but it is starting to slip. We need to act’ 13 mars 2025 à 12:00

Vivianne Miedema: ‘Women’s football is proud to be inclusive but it is starting to slip. We need to act’

13 mars 2025 à 12:00

Forward sounds urgent warning, discusses Manchester City upheaval and says she is starting to click with Khadija Shaw

Vivianne Miedema made her senior debut as a 15-year-old in the Netherlands, and 13 and a half years and more than 300 goals later there are few players better qualified to comment on the evolution of the women’s game than the Manchester City forward. She is deeply concerned by the growing number of incidents of so-called fans abusing players.

“We’re always saying we’re proud in the women’s game that we’re very inclusive but somehow that is starting to slip away a bit,” Miedema says. “If we don’t act really strongly right now then it might be too late.

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WSL’s new £65m TV contract must be renegotiated if relegation is suspended 12 mars 2025 à 20:00

WSL’s new £65m TV contract must be renegotiated if relegation is suspended

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Par :Exclusive by Matt Hughes

12 mars 2025 à 20:00

Sky/BBC deal runs for five years from next season
No relegation would mean meaningless ties on TV

The Women’s Super League’s £65m TV contract with Sky Sports and the BBC will have to be renegotiated if it removes relegation from the top flight.

As revealed last month by the Guardian, the clubs are considering radical proposals to pause relegation from the 2026-27 season as part of a plan to expand the WSL and Championship to 16 teams each, with a vote expected at the end of the season.

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Will Gareth Taylor’s Manchester City sacking turn out to be a masterstroke? 12 mars 2025 à 13:28

Will Gareth Taylor’s Manchester City sacking turn out to be a masterstroke?

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Par :Tom Garry

12 mars 2025 à 13:28

Results and off-pitch changes contributed to coach going days before a cup final and months after all seemed rosy

On a cold Manchester night last November, as Gareth Taylor watched his team secure a 10th straight victory of the season by beating Hammarby, the idea that he would not be in charge of Manchester City by mid-March seemed fairly far-fetched. City were on a run of 21 wins and one defeat in 23 WSL matches, meaning that across 12 months they had the best league results in the country. Yet four months and four painful league defeats later, Taylor is out.

To some, who were surprised Taylor was given a one-year contract extension in May 2023 despite City finishing fourth, his departure has been on the cards because of a relatively low trophy return – the FA Cup in 2020 and League Cup in 2022 – and City’s eliminations in the qualifying rounds of the Champions League in 2022 and 2023. To others, who see him as the coach who was within a whisker of winning the league last term, his dismissal may seem brutal.

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FA Cup shock and City’s managerial shake-up – Women’s Football Weekly podcast 11 mars 2025 à 16:12

FA Cup shock and City’s managerial shake-up – Women’s Football Weekly podcast

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Par :Presented by Faye Carruthers · with Suzanne Wrack · Robyn Cowen · and Tom Garry. Produced by Sophie Downey and Silas Gray. Executive produced by Sal Ahmad. Music Composition by Laura Iredale.

11 mars 2025 à 16:12

Faye Carruthers is joined by Suzy Wrack, Tom Garry, and Robyn Cowen to discuss Gareth Taylor’s exit and the weekend’s games

On the podcast today: Manchester City part ways with Gareth Taylor just days before their League Cup final against Chelsea, with Nick Cushing stepping in as interim manager. What went wrong, and what does this mean for City’s season?

Elsewhere, Liverpool stun Arsenal to reach the FA Cup semi-finals, joining Chelsea, Manchester United, and Manchester City in the final four. Meanwhile, Liverpool’s Taylor Hinds was subjected to “sexually inappropriate comments” from a spectator. We break down all the action from the quarter-finals and discuss Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s latest eyebrow-raising comments on the Manchester United women’s team.

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