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Sian Osmond
THE MANAGER
From the Manager GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE AND I HOPE ALL OF OUR AMAZING SUPPORTERS ARE KEEPING WELL ahead of this afternoon’s championship fixture with Leicester City Women. I’d like to wish all of our visitors players and staff a very warm welcome to The Hive this afternoon. I’m sure it’s going to be an entertaining match today! I’m really excited for my first home match in charge, The Hive is a special place to me and it’ll be an honour to lead the team from the dugout at our home ground for the first time. I have to give immense credit to the girls for their attitude in training over the last couple of weeks and I think everyone saw that commitment out on the pitch last Sunday against Liverpool. The scoreline didn’t really reflect the match and we had them pegged back in the second half for large periods. We didn’t take our chances when they came and ultimately were punished late on. That’s something we have to rectify this
afternoon because Leicester are flying so when we do get those chances we have to take them. Leicester are top of the league and rightfully so, they have an array of talent at their disposal and are a team set up for the FAWSL. However, I have complete faith in the girls and know that we have the quality to cause them problems. We need to continue our strong home form this afternoon, take the game to Leicester and do our utmost to take some vital points. We have four cup finals left and I know we have our fans behind us every step of the way. Keep safe and see you soon,
Sian
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From the Captain HEY BEES FANS, I HOPE YOU’VE ALL BEEN WELL! AND WELCOME TO LEICESTER TO THE HIVE FOR TODAY’S GAME. I’m sure you’ve heard the news of Lee’s departure as manager and we would like to take the opportunity to thank Lee for the amazing job he’s done during his 2 years at the club, and we wish him every success in his next venture! Credit must also go to Sian and our back room staff for being extremely efficient in continuing on from Lee and keeping the squad on track for completing our goals this season. The girls have also reacted well as a squad as we look to finish the season on a high. We’ve had a mixture of results the last 2 games but our most recent performance is something we hope to build from. The girls performed considerably well against Liverpool and made it difficult for them to play through us, and we’re hoping to do that again today against a strong Leicester side. Thank you for the continued support, we hope you’re cheering us on at home today. See you soon,
Mez
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It has been revealed that the FA Cup will restart from 31st March. Sunday 4th April will see one first round tie, Kent Football United vs Enfield Town, postponed from 13th December, as well as 17 second round ties be played. The following weekend will see the third round, whilst Sunday 18th will see the fourth round, were all WSL and Championship sides, including ourselves, enter the competition. The draw for round four has thrown up some interesting fixtures – we travel to Crystal Palace for a Championship London derby, Leicester City will host Liverpool in another all Championship tie, and Durham will travel to Everton. Tottenham Hotspur, our tenants here are the Hive, will travel to Reading, Birmingham City will host Coventry United in a West Midlands derby, Manchester City start their title defence at home to Aston Villa, Chelsea play London City Lionesses, and Brighton and Hove Albion entertain Bristol City. Manchester United will travel to the winner of the second and third round ties between Burnley, AFC Fylde, Sheffield FC and Sunderland, whilst Arsenal will take on the winner of the second and third round winners of Portsmouth, Cheltenham Town, Crawley Wasps and Gillingham.
National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) side North Carolina Courage have announced the signing of Wales international and Reading midfielder Angharad James. The player, who has 83 caps to her name, is currently in the final year of her contract with the Royals, having joined in 2019. She has previously played for Arsenal, Bristol Academy, Notts County, Yeovil Town and Everton.
Last week saw the announcement that the Welsh Premier Women’s League (WPWL) will resume this weekend, after having its’ elite status reinstated. This comes after all football in Wales ceased at the end of December, both women’s and men’s, as well as having its’ elite status rescinded in order to combat the coronavirus. The competition restarts this afternoon, with the Aberystwyth vs Briton Ferry Llansawel tie kicking it off. Next Sunday, and the following Sunday, sees full rounds of fixtures to be played.
The first legs of 7 out of 8 of the Champions League round of 16 ties were played this week, with the second legs, and remaining first leg, to be played this coming week. In the fixtures this week, holders Olympique Lyonnaise Feminin overcame Danish outfit Brondby 2-0, with Chelsea defeating Atletico Madrid and VfL Wolfsburg beating LSK Kvinner of Norway by the same scoreline. Danes Fortuna Hjorring were brushed aside 4-0 by Barcelona, Manchester City beat Italians Fiorentina 3-0, and Bayern Munich claimed the biggest victory of the round so far, routing Kazakhstan’s BIIK Kazygurt 6-1. The only draw, a 2-2, was played out between Sweden’s Rosengard and Austria’s St Polten. The only tie not played was Sparta Prague’s visit to Paris Saint Germain, to be played on Tuesday.
The England national team played their first match in 348 days on 23rd February, overcoming Northern Ireland 6-0 at St George’s Park. The behind closed doors fixture was also the first played at home by the Lionesses since 9th November 2019, when 78,000 fans attended the 2-1 defeat by Germany at Wembley. This comes after the side featured in the SheBelieves Cup in the USA last March, and an away trip to Germany in October and visit of Norway to Bramall Lane, Sheffield, in December were both cancelled due to the pandemic.
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