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BBC News
18-04-2025
- Sport
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West Ham in a 'great space' with impressive season
West Ham are in a "great space" following impressive performances this season, says manager Rehanne are unbeaten in their last three Women's Super League matches, which included draws with Chelsea and Manchester Hammers currently sit seventh in the table, two points off Liverpool, as they prepare to host FA Cup finalists Manchester United on Saturday. "I've been really pleased with the players' attitudes and their approach. They have been excellent," said Skinner."We've added a few extra players which have given us an edge in different departments. We've been chipping away at the process. "Now we've kind of got everybody functioning and we've filled some of the pieces of the jigsaw. We've got a lot of confidence and belief in what we're hopes improved squad depth and competition for places will lead to more consistency going what the next step for the squad was, she said: "We want to finish the season strongly. We need to be consistent with this. "It's taken us time, a growth and a process to get to. We need to be able to show we can be competitive consistently through to the end of the season. "We need to take every single game seriously and get as many points on the board as we can. That will tell me even more about the players."
BBC News
01-04-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Kelly 'definitely smiling more' after Arsenal move
England winger Chloe Kelly said she is "definitely smiling more" since her January move to Arsenal from Manchester 27-year-old said in January she wanted "to be happy again" after a difficult first half of the season with City, in which she made just one start in the Women's Super League.A deadline day move to Arsenal has so far proved a wise step as it has allowed Kelly to have more regular game has helped Arsenal reach the Women's Champions League semi-finals, while significantly boosting her Euro 2025 prospects."I knew I needed to get minutes in my tank and I've definitely done that, so I'm playing with a smile on my face," she said in an England news Lionesses take on Belgium on Friday at Ashton Gate, and face the same opposition again next Tuesday in the reverse leg of a Women's Nations League scored the winning goal in the final against Germany when England created history by winning their first major women's tournament at Euro was then a regular in Manchester City's starting line-ups until she struggled for minutes this January, she posted on Instagram that the situation had "a huge impact on not only my career by my mental wellbeing" as she expressed her desire to heavy speculation, she said her future was not with City and that she wanted to put herself in a position to play for England at this summer's United made an offer for the striker on deadline day that was rejected by City, before Kelly got her move with a loan to Arsenal."Every decision you make you look back on and hope that it works out for you, and right now I'm enjoying my football and playing plenty of minutes," said Kelly."I'm learning under Renee [Slegers, Arsenal manager] and have now got another opportunity to represent my country."I'm spending a lot of time with family back down in London and appreciating little things in life."[It's] important to have a smile on your face as a human. Right now I'm definitely smiling more. I feel really good and I'm happy." 'Are you sure?' - Symonds earns first England call-up Brighton midfielder Maisie Symonds received her first senior England call-up for the forthcoming matches and explained this week that she almost missed manager Sarina Wiegman's phone call."The day before, we'd lost a game and I was in a bit of a bad mood," Symonds said."I was about to review the game and I had an unknown caller coming through."The 22-year-old suspected it might be "spam or something" but chose to answer."Then Sarina just said, 'Hello Maisie, it's Sarina'," said Symonds."I couldn't get the words out to reply to her. I just kept saying, 'Thank you, thank you, thank you'. I almost said, 'Are you sure?'. Luckily I didn't say that."Symonds attended England's Euros final victory three years ago at Wembley but, unbeknown to her, was suffering with glandular fever at the time."I just thought I had a cold, but obviously I was going to go to the game," she said."That summer I started pre-season and then it just got worse and worse and worse. I got really, really ill. That was a long thing to come back from."I think I was out for six months and I got re-injured for most of the season."Once a regular for England at youth level, Symonds did not think she would reach the senior squad so soon after her health said: "At that moment I probably wouldn't have predicted that I'd be in the squad within a couple of years, but I'm very lucky for the people I've got around me to help me come back from something like that, and I'm really proud to be here." Head here to get involved
BBC News
30-03-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Man Utd 2-0 Everton: United close in on Champions League
Two more wins are all Manchester United need to secure a top-three finish in the Women's Super League and a return to the Champions Skinner's side weren't at their best against Everton on Sunday - Everton had the better of the early stages - but they didn't need to be to maintain the seven-point gap between themselves and fourth-place Manchester home side were fortunate that Courtney Brosnan spilled a cross at the feet of Dominique Janssen to tap home, but there was nothing lucky about Grace Clinton's clever flicked finish shortly after picked up by Celin Bizet and Leah Galton took some of the shine off a routine afternoon, but United will go into their FA Cup semi-final clash with City off the back of eight wins in their last nine 14 more points than they had at this stage last season, it's been an impressive season for a team many suggested would struggle following high profile exits last summer. Returning to Europe and qualifying for the group stages for the first time would be just reward.
BBC News
28-02-2025
- Sport
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Man City's Rodri returns to individual training
Ballon d'Or winner Rodri has returned to training at Manchester midfielder completed an individual on-pitch workout at the club's Etihad Campus on international Rodri, 28, has been out of action since September after suffering a serious knee injury, a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament (ACL).In his absence, last season's champions have slipped 20 points behind leaders Liverpool in the Premier League and been knocked out of the Champions club released footage on Friday that showed Rodri completing a series of drills on the first team's training Pep Guardiola has tried to play down hopes that Rodri could be set for a return to action recently, Guardiola said: "[The] most important [thing] for Rodri now is to recover well."It's going really well and he feels really good, but step by step we will see." Must be a chance Rodri will play again this season - analysis Simon Stone, chief football news reporterThe images of Rodri out on the first-team training pitches, running, turning and kicking the ball, will gladden the heart of every Manchester City the sun came Pep Guardiola has played down talk of an imminent return to action and evidently, there is a long way to go before Rodri actually plays a proper game with nearly three months of the domestic season left, there has to be a chance Rodri will play some part – and that should mean he is available for the Club World Cup in the USA in is really important because Guardiola's squad will have next to no preparation time for the 2025-26 campaign and, as they have discovered this season, without Rodri, they are just not the same team.
BBC News
14-02-2025
- Business
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Premier League sponsorship rules 'void' says tribunal
The Premier League's rules governing sponsorship deals from the period between between 2021 and 2024 are "void and unenforceable", a tribunal has year, an independent arbitration panel found against aspects of the league's Associated Party Transaction regulations (APTs) after a lawsuit instigated by Manchester rules were formed by the Premier League to prevent clubs from profiting from commercial deals with companies linked to their owners that are deemed above "fair market value".In November, the Premier League voted through amendments to the rules despite opposition from Newcastle, Nottingham Forest and Aston Villa, as well as ruling is not in judgement of the November amendments which still stand but are the subject of a legal challenge. More to follow.
