27 July 2025

Women's Euro 2025 Semi-Finals, Part Two

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 Greetings, gentle readers. What we find is this: if women's football is a chess game where the manager's chief duty is to optimise ...
24 July 2025

Women's Euro 2025 Semi-Finals, Part One

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 Greetings, gentle readers. What we find is this:  of the twenty-three players to represent England at the Women's World Cup two years a...
22 July 2025

Women's Euro 2025 Quarter-Finals, Part Two

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 Greetings, gentle readers. What we find is this:  Having yawned their way to a perfect three win, zero loss performance in the group stage,...
21 July 2025

The 2025 Quarter-Finals, Part One

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 Greetings, gentle readers. What we find is this: eight teams have muscled their way through the grueling group phase of the tournament, def...
09 July 2025

Jürgen's Legacies

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Greetings, gentle readers.  As I subject myself to hours of commentary from the American Fox Sports network, I've realized a couple of t...

Women's Euro 2025 Championships

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Greetings, gentle readers.  Recovering as I am from spinal surgery my typing is still stilted and uncomfortable, but I thought it worth the ...
17 August 2023

2023 WWC - The Road to the Final

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 Greetings, gentle readers. So we've reached the weekend of the Final, and what sort of retrospective can we create from the dozens of d...
16 August 2023

2023 WWC - The End of the Semi-Finals

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 Greetings gentle readers. And so the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup has finally resolved itself into its final weekend, with Sweden and ho...