Category: Opinion

  • Match Recap: Brighton 0-2 West Ham

    Martin Luther King once said “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope”. Never was there a more appropriate motto for Brighton and Hove Albion Women at the moment. After a promising performance away at Everton last week, the team were trying to ride that momentum into their first home game of the…

  • £1M Women’s Transfer Fee – Part 1: The Journey

    £1M Women’s Transfer Fee – Part 1: The Journey

    One of the surprising things to me as a lifelong football fan once I entered the sphere of the women’s game in 2019, was the relatively small transfer fees required to sign the World’s best players. At the time the record was £200,000 paid by Rayo Vallecano to sign Milene Domingues from Fiammamonza way back…

  • Match Recap: Everton 1-2 Brighton

    Well as frenetic as the summer had been for Brighton, it didn’t match the energy with which they started this game. After just 3 minutes Katie Robinson slammed a long-range effort off the bar which may have actually been a great save by Emily Ramsey. The ball went almost straight up in the air and…

  • A Season in Preview

    What a summer it was for women’s football, England made the final of the World Cup, a Spanish official tried to make the whole sport about him, and in many ways the game is stronger than it has ever been. Oh, and Brighton signed (I think) 11 new players. Whew. So here I am trying…

  • Keeping It Simple

    Keeping It Simple

    Well that was an interesting transfer window wasn’t it! There were some incomings and outgoings early, and the same as the window drew to a close. In this article I want to focus on deadline day itself and in particular the addition of two goalkeepers, Nicky Evrard and Sophie Baggaley. As the summer wore on,…