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Bradford City WFC vs Newcastle United WFC Programme

Bradford City WFC's programme for their encounter with Newcastle United WFC in the FA Women's Premier League, Sunday 11 December 2016.

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<strong>Bradford</strong> <strong>City</strong> Women’s Football Club<br />

<strong>vs</strong><br />

<strong>Newcastle</strong> <strong>United</strong> <strong>WFC</strong><br />

FA Women’s Premier League<br />

Sunday 11 December<br />

Kick-off 2PM<br />

Today’s match sponsor


Proud Sponsors of<br />

<strong>Bradford</strong> <strong>City</strong> Women’s<br />

Football Club<br />

Tel 01274 882331 Fax 01274 882332<br />

Email info@patchett-joinery.co.uk<br />

Patchett Joinery<br />

Ryefield House<br />

180 Highgate Road<br />

Queensbury<br />

<strong>Bradford</strong><br />

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BD13 1DS<br />

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THE PEOPLE<br />

Club Chair: Sally Thackray<br />

Club Treasurer: Allyson Matthews<br />

Coach Liaison: Jess Pearson<br />

Player Liaison Officer: Jess Pearson<br />

Football Development Officer: Charlotte Stuart<br />

Club Secretary: Sally Thackray<br />

Media: Amee Ruszkai, Ami Nolan<br />

Photographer: George Wood<br />

Senior Coaches: Charlotte Stuart, Lee Harrison,<br />

Declan Smith, Chris Birks, Danny Barker, Paul<br />

Scott<br />

Junior Coaches: Charlotte Stuart, Shauna Legge,<br />

Adam Fox, Andy Uttley, Joe Bray, Paul Scott,<br />

Georgia Clipson, Danny Barker, Samir Butt, Amee<br />

Ruszkai, Antonia Butcher, Qasim Akhtar<br />

THE HONOURS<br />

Yorkshire and Humberside League Champions:<br />

1988/89 1995/96<br />

Yorkshire Plate Runners-up: 1989<br />

Yorkshire Cup Winners: 1996<br />

Northern Division Champions: 1996/97<br />

FA Cup Quarter Finals: 1998<br />

Premier League Cup Semi Finalists: 1998<br />

North East Premier League Champions: 2006/07<br />

County Cup Champions: 2006, 2014, 2015, 2016<br />

THE DETAILS<br />

First Team Home Venue:<br />

Eccleshill <strong>United</strong>, Kingsway, <strong>Bradford</strong>. BD2 1PN<br />

Training Venue/Reserves Home Venue:<br />

Rawdon Meadows, BD10 0NN<br />

Email: info@bcwfc.co.uk<br />

Website: www.bcwfc..co.uk<br />

Twitter: @bcwfc<br />

THECLUB<br />

Facebook: /bcwfc<br />

THEPROGRAMME<br />

5 Chair Chatter: Chairwoman Sally Thackray gives<br />

her thoughts ahead of this afternoon’s game<br />

6 Match Preview: Everything you need to know<br />

about today’s fixture<br />

8-9 Jess Graham: After returning from injury last<br />

week, the <strong>City</strong> midfielder is raring to go again<br />

11 Just A Ball Game: All about today’s match sponsor<br />

and their campaign to kick discrimination out of football<br />

12-13 2016-17 Sponsorship: The first team player and<br />

management sponsors for the season<br />

14 News: The club resigned an old face this week,<br />

and she could start this afternoon…<br />

15 SSE FA Women’s Cup: A quick look at the results<br />

from last weekend’s cup ties<br />

16-17 The FA Women’s Premier League: Previewing this<br />

afternoon’s games and a reminder of the current standings<br />

20-21 Last time out: Read up on the Bantams’ last<br />

outing, as they hosted Blackburn Rovers<br />

22 21 Questions: Zoe Roberts talks teammates and<br />

picks between Ronaldo and Messi<br />

23 Fixtures and Results: The club’s full schedule for<br />

the season<br />

THE STATS<br />

<strong>Bradford</strong> have lost just one of their last seven<br />

games against <strong>Newcastle</strong> (W5 D1).<br />

Those seven meetings have produced 25 goals,<br />

with the fixture averaging 3.5 goals per encounter.<br />

The Bantams have never lost at home to <strong>Newcastle</strong><br />

in the FAWPL.<br />

THE ISSUE<br />

Editor: Ameé Ruszkai<br />

Photos: George Wood<br />

Print: Staples (<strong>Bradford</strong>)<br />

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Wearing black armbands, <strong>City</strong><br />

pay their respects to those<br />

who died in Colombia last<br />

month when a plane carrying<br />

Brazilian team Chapecoense to<br />

their Copa Sudamericana final<br />

crashed.<br />

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Chair Chatter: Sally Thackray ahead of today’s game<br />

Good afternoon to everyone for today’s FA Women's Premier League Northern Division match<br />

against <strong>Newcastle</strong> <strong>United</strong> <strong>WFC</strong>. A warm welcome to all players, club officials and spectators<br />

who have made the journey from <strong>Newcastle</strong> to be here today.<br />

Last week saw us entertain Blackburn Rovers in the first round of the SSE FA Women’s Cup.<br />

We were unlucky to concede a goal in the final few minutes of the game giving Blackburn the<br />

opportunity to go into the next round, we wish them well.<br />

Today’s opponents will be looking to improve their current league position, but their position<br />

at the foot of the table does not tell the whole story. Their current form is not dissimilar to<br />

other teams in the league in terms of games lost and won, but other teams, including us, have<br />

played more games. So today both sides will be battling hard to secure maximum points.<br />

I am pleased to welcome Lindsay England today, the founder of Just a Ball Game?, who have<br />

kindly agreed to sponsor the match. Just a Ball Game? is a campaign group that aims to help<br />

grassroots and professional sports groups, amongst others, deliver core values of 'Safety-<br />

Inclusion-Respect' around LGBT people, sexual orientation and gender identity. They also aim<br />

to raise awareness and challenge what is seen as homophobia/anti gay etc.<br />

<strong>Bradford</strong> <strong>City</strong>’s men’s team are already a partner with Just a Ball Game? and as we also<br />

become a partner, I think this makes us the first club to take this step. There is more<br />

information about Just a Ball Game? in this programme and at www.justaballgame.co.uk.<br />

We are grateful for the support of Just a Ball Game? today. Without this kind of support it<br />

would be impossible to continue providing football for the girls and women of <strong>Bradford</strong>.<br />

Elsewhere by a quirk of fixtures, our Reserve team are also playing <strong>Newcastle</strong> Reserves, but<br />

we will be the team doing the travelling!<br />

Good luck to them as they aim to follow up last week’s win over Brighouse Town.<br />

Enjoy the game,<br />

Sally<br />

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Match Preview: <strong>Bradford</strong> <strong>City</strong> <strong>vs</strong> <strong>Newcastle</strong> <strong>United</strong><br />

Paige Crosby in action against <strong>Newcastle</strong> last season.<br />

<strong>Bradford</strong> <strong>City</strong> welcome <strong>Newcastle</strong> <strong>United</strong> this<br />

afternoon in the FA Women’s Premier League.<br />

Current form<br />

These two come into today’s game fresh off<br />

the back of SSE FA Women’s Cup results that<br />

contradict their current form.<br />

Bottom of the table <strong>Newcastle</strong> beat RACA<br />

Tyne 3-0, while <strong>Bradford</strong> were denied a third<br />

successive victory as they fell 1-0 at home to<br />

Blackburn Rovers.<br />

<strong>Newcastle</strong> will hope to build on that win<br />

today, bidding to survive, while <strong>City</strong> aim to<br />

bounce back.<br />

Team news<br />

<strong>City</strong>’s recent loan signing Rachel Newborough<br />

is in line to make her league debut today, new<br />

signing Yasmin Ayub could make her second<br />

debut, and Jess Graham is in contention to<br />

start too after returning from injury last week.<br />

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Graham could replace Ellie Olds in the starting<br />

line-up, who this week tore her ankle<br />

ligaments and could be out for two months.<br />

Making 13 starts and scoring two goals this<br />

season, Olds will be a sorry miss as she joins<br />

striker Lucy Sowerby in the treatment room—<br />

who suffered the same injury just last month.<br />

Previous meetings<br />

<strong>City</strong> have a fantastic recent record against the<br />

Magpies and have never lost at home to them<br />

in the FA Women’s Premier League.<br />

<strong>Newcastle</strong> did beat <strong>City</strong> 3-1 on Tyneside last<br />

term, but the Bantams were 2-1 victors in the<br />

cup and won 3-0 on their own patch to get<br />

one up on the Toon Army.<br />

Incidentally, none of the <strong>City</strong> players who<br />

scored against <strong>Newcastle</strong> last season will<br />

feature today. Three have since left the club,<br />

while Rosie McDonnell will not be involved.


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Jess Graham: “It felt amazing being back on the pitch“<br />

Jess Graham gets stuck in against Blackburn earlier this season.<br />

After two months out injured, Jess Graham<br />

returned to action last weekend as a second<br />

half substitute in the 1-0 defeat to Blackburn<br />

Rovers.<br />

Today, she is in contention to make her full<br />

return, even more so with Ellie Olds’ injury<br />

opening up a space in midfield.<br />

Whether she starts or just features from the<br />

bench again though, Graham is raring to go<br />

after enduring a significant spell on the<br />

sidelines.<br />

“It felt amazing being back on the pitch<br />

Sunday as I thought it would be at least next<br />

year until I'd be able to be back training,” said<br />

<strong>City</strong>’s number eight.<br />

“It's the first time I've been injured properly in<br />

my football life, so it has made me even more<br />

determined to train harder because I have<br />

missed it so much on and off the pitch.”<br />

Similar levels of determination run through<br />

the squad today, as they aim to bounce back<br />

from last Sunday’s narrow loss.<br />

After such a positive display, defeat was<br />

difficult for the Bantams to take, and<br />

especially given the manner in which it was<br />

dealt to them.<br />

An 87th minute strike—arguably Rovers’ first<br />

real attempt at goal—saw them progress to<br />

the second round of the SSE FA Women’s Cup,<br />

while <strong>City</strong> crashed out.<br />

But the Bantams have taken countless<br />

positives from the game and go into today’s<br />

clash with <strong>Newcastle</strong> <strong>United</strong> full of<br />

confidence.<br />

“Blackburn are title contenders but we were<br />

the better team, and I think a lot of people<br />

would agree with me,” said Graham.<br />

“Compared to the first time we played them<br />

[a 4-0 loss in September], we have improved<br />

massively and that’s a great positive for the<br />

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Jess Graham: “It felt amazing being back on the pitch”<br />

club moving forward as we are a fairly new<br />

team.”<br />

This afternoon, <strong>City</strong> go from playing favourites<br />

for the title to playing favourites to be<br />

relegated.<br />

<strong>Newcastle</strong> have won just two of their opening<br />

10 games, leaving them four points adrift at<br />

the foot of the table.<br />

West Bromwich Albion are the team they are<br />

chasing down, but last season’s champions<br />

have began to pick up form and distance<br />

themselves from the foot of the table.<br />

Even so, Graham says the Bantams are not<br />

underestimating this afternoon’s opponents.<br />

“Today we have to bring the same attitude<br />

and fight we showed against Blackburn to<br />

secure a win,” she said.<br />

“The table may not reflect the ability of teams<br />

Jess Graham finally made her<br />

return from injury last week,<br />

replacing Abi Lee against Blackburn.<br />

and we have to be ready to take three points<br />

from every game.”<br />

She is right to be cautious too. <strong>Newcastle</strong><br />

come into the game full of confidence after<br />

defeating lower-league RACA Tyne 3-0 in the<br />

SSE FA Women’s Cup last Sunday and they will<br />

be hoping to spring a surprise.<br />

Bar a heavy 5-1 defeat to Nottingham Forest<br />

two weeks ago, the Toon Army’s last few<br />

games have been close ones—with victory<br />

over Leicester sandwiched in between a 2-1<br />

loss at West Brom and a 1-0 defeat to<br />

Blackburn.<br />

They are capable of competing with the top<br />

sides, and will be out to prove that once more<br />

today in pursuit of a precious win in their bid<br />

to stay up.<br />

But this is a game <strong>City</strong> will rightly be confident<br />

in taking three points from—granted they are<br />

on their game.<br />

The spirits are high in the dressing room and<br />

the performances have been very good after a<br />

tricky start.<br />

“To improve on last week, we are looking to<br />

be more direct and more confident going<br />

forward against <strong>Newcastle</strong>,” Graham said.<br />

<strong>City</strong> may not have a victory from their last<br />

outing to bring into this game like their<br />

opponents, but their number eight believes<br />

“bouncing off a good performance from last<br />

Sunday will help” in their bid for a more<br />

positive result this afternoon.<br />

“We have a lot of passion at this club.<br />

“We fight for every ball and have started to<br />

communicate well on the pitch.<br />

“We have amazing ability at the club too and<br />

need to start showing it off.”<br />

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Today’s Match Sponsor: Just A Ball Game?<br />

Today’s game is sponsored<br />

by Just A Ball Game? – a<br />

campaign group focused<br />

on promoting diversity and<br />

fighting discrimination and<br />

homophobia in sport.<br />

Just a few weeks after<br />

rainbow laces and rainbow<br />

captain’s armbands graced<br />

the men’s Premier League, <strong>Bradford</strong> <strong>City</strong> <strong>WFC</strong><br />

will today show their support for the LGBT+<br />

community as well.<br />

The players will wear the campaign’s t-shirts<br />

in today’s warm-up as a symbol of that as<br />

everyone at the club looks forward to learning<br />

more about what they do.<br />

“Teaming up with BC<strong>WFC</strong> gives Just A Ball<br />

Game? a chance to spread the word on our<br />

campaign work, which<br />

seeks to raise awareness<br />

around LGBT+ inclusion<br />

and visibility, and also<br />

challenge what is seen as<br />

homophobia or anti-gay,”<br />

said Lindsay England,<br />

founder of the campaign.<br />

“We have already seen<br />

the men’s team support our campaign for<br />

several seasons now and we are very much<br />

looking forward to partnering with the<br />

women’s squad to showcase how seriously<br />

football in <strong>Bradford</strong> is around equality and<br />

diversity.”<br />

The rainbow pride flag flies high at Valley<br />

Parade, and a short walk from the stadium<br />

will take you to another of Just A Ball Game?’s<br />

partners – <strong>Bradford</strong> Brewery.<br />

Support from the campaign is growing around<br />

the country too, with more and more banners<br />

in support of the LGBT+ community starting to<br />

appear around the Football League.<br />

<strong>Bradford</strong> <strong>City</strong> <strong>WFC</strong> are proud to get behind<br />

Just A Ball Game? and join them in their fight<br />

to kick all forms of discrimination out of the<br />

beautiful game.<br />

“Just A Ball Game? would like to thank<br />

everyone at BC<strong>WFC</strong> for the partnership, which<br />

shows support for the important work we are<br />

doing and the real difference we are making<br />

in challenging discrimination within the<br />

game,” England said.<br />

“We have a huge interest in the women’s<br />

game and are very grateful for the respect<br />

and acceptance it brings to young people.”<br />

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2016-17 SPONSORSHIP<br />

6<br />

Faye Boshell<br />

Assistant Player-<br />

Manager<br />

Charlotte Stuart<br />

Player-Manager<br />

7<br />

Chris Birks<br />

Goalkeeper Coach<br />

Lee Harrison<br />

Senior Coach<br />

Ami Nolan<br />

Media<br />

Kirsty Goodbold<br />

Physio<br />

1<br />

Charlotte Oates<br />

Club captain<br />

2<br />

Zoe Roberts<br />

3<br />

Shauna Legge<br />

4<br />

Ellie Olds<br />

Sponsored by<br />

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Jess Graham<br />

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Lucy Sowerby<br />

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Hannah Campbell<br />

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Laura Elford<br />

Rosie McDonnell<br />

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Chloe Precious<br />

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Paige Crosby<br />

Sponsored by<br />

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Sponsored by


Today’s opposition<br />

News: <strong>City</strong>’s new signing<br />

Ayub guided Brighouse to the NERWFL Premier<br />

Division title last year, and with it promotion.<br />

<strong>Newcastle</strong> <strong>United</strong> <strong>WFC</strong><br />

Northern Combination League:<br />

2011-12<br />

Combination League Cup:<br />

2004-05<br />

Northern Combination League Cup:<br />

1998-99<br />

Northern Combination<br />

Development League Cup:<br />

2012-13<br />

Northumberland FA Senior Cup:<br />

2000–01, 2001–02, 2002–03, 2003–04,<br />

2004–05, 2007-8 2011-2012<br />

Lloret Cup:<br />

2003–04<br />

Y.E.S Cup (Year of Exercise and Sport):<br />

2006–07<br />

Nationwide Club of the Year:<br />

2006–07<br />

John O’Farrell Charity Cup:<br />

2009–10<br />

Great news for <strong>Bradford</strong> <strong>City</strong> this week came in<br />

the form of a new signing, though it’s not a new<br />

face.<br />

After eight years away from the club, Yasmin<br />

Ayub returns to the Bantams’ set-up.<br />

A versatile asset who can play in the centre of<br />

midfield or lead the front line, ‘Yaz’ came<br />

through <strong>City</strong>’s junior set up but would leave the<br />

club at the age of 19.<br />

She joined Kirklees Ladies in 2009, who merged<br />

with Brighouse Town in 2013. A stalwart in the<br />

team, Ayub went on to become Town’s club<br />

captain but could<br />

not resist the<br />

opportunity to<br />

return to her<br />

former club ahead<br />

of the second half<br />

of the season.<br />

The 27-year-old is<br />

in contention to<br />

start this<br />

afternoon, with<br />

Ellie Olds missing<br />

in midfield<br />

through injury.<br />

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SSE FA Women’s Cup Round-up: Sunday 4 December<br />

Seven of the FAWPL Northern Division’s 11<br />

sides remain in the SSE FA Women’s Cup after<br />

last Sunday’s first round ties.<br />

There were exits for <strong>Bradford</strong> <strong>City</strong>, Fylde and<br />

Huddersfield Town in three all-third tier<br />

clashes, as league rivals progressed at their<br />

expense.<br />

<strong>City</strong> fell narrowly to Blackburn Rovers, whose<br />

first meaningful effort at goal produced an<br />

87th minute winner after the Bantams had hit<br />

the woodwork three times.<br />

In Huddersfield, one goal was also enough for<br />

the visitors as Derby County’s Natalie Reay<br />

sent her side through to the second round.<br />

Meanwhile, Fylde fell to West Bromwich<br />

Albion in a more one-sided 4-1 result.<br />

The Baggies were 2-0 up inside eight minutes<br />

thanks to goals from Leigh Dugmore and<br />

Abigail Cottam, before Trina Greaves added a<br />

third in the second half.<br />

Danielle Young pulled one back for Fylde, but<br />

she would then see red and Cottam wrapped<br />

things up against the 10-men for West Brom.<br />

Elsewhere, Stoke <strong>City</strong> were on the wrong end<br />

of an upset as they were eliminated by lowerleague<br />

Liverpool Marshall Feds on penalties.<br />

The Merseysiders came from 1-0 down in<br />

normal time and built upon substitute Carla<br />

Lee’s equaliser to win the tie dramatically.<br />

The script was followed in most other ties.<br />

Northern Division One leaders Guiseley Vixens<br />

looked capable of causing an upset at home to<br />

struggling Nottingham Forest, but Charlotte<br />

Broad secured the visitors a 1-0 win.<br />

Leicester <strong>City</strong> and <strong>Newcastle</strong> <strong>United</strong> both<br />

defeated lower-league opposition 3-0 on the<br />

road, overcoming Birmingham & West<br />

Midlands and RACA Tyne respectively, while<br />

Middlesbrough downed sixth division<br />

Hartlepool <strong>United</strong> 1-0.<br />

The day’s biggest upset came down South,<br />

where Cambridge <strong>United</strong> overcame QPR 3-1.<br />

Long Eaton <strong>United</strong> and Plymouth Argyle were<br />

awarded walkovers, while the only place left<br />

up for grabs is between Southampton and<br />

Swindon Town, after their game was<br />

postponed.<br />

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FAWPL Preview: Sunday 11 December<br />

Cup and Plate ties this afternoon mean there<br />

are just three league fixtures to be played.<br />

Huddersfield Town and Leicester <strong>City</strong> are both<br />

bidding for a place in the semi-finals of the<br />

Plate, visiting lower-league opposition.<br />

Town travel Tranmere Rovers, who beat<br />

Mossley Hill 2-1 in the last round, while<br />

Leicester will battle a Keynsham Town side<br />

who upset third division West Ham <strong>United</strong> in<br />

the last 16.<br />

In the cup, West Bromwich Albion make the<br />

trip to London to face Southern division side<br />

Charlton Athletic, who surprisingly defeated<br />

Portsmouth 4-2 in the previous round.<br />

Meanwhile Blackburn Rovers are aiming to<br />

maintain their unbeaten start to the season at<br />

lower-league Chester le Street Town, who<br />

upset Derby County to reach the last eight.<br />

But back to league matters—there are six<br />

sides in action today, all aiming to take<br />

advantage of the fact that those around them<br />

in the standings aren’t.<br />

Here at Eccleshill <strong>United</strong>, <strong>Bradford</strong> <strong>City</strong> know<br />

that a win can lift them as high as third, with<br />

Leicester playing in the Plate.<br />

Fylde and Derby County will hoping the<br />

Bantams slip up though, as if there is a winner<br />

in their clash and <strong>Newcastle</strong> also register<br />

three points, the victor will climb into fourth.<br />

The two are level on points after a deduction<br />

for Fylde, who fielded an ineligible player<br />

when facing <strong>Newcastle</strong> in September.<br />

Fixtures—Sunday 11 December:<br />

<strong>Bradford</strong> <strong>City</strong> <strong>vs</strong> <strong>Newcastle</strong> <strong>United</strong><br />

Fylde <strong>vs</strong> Derby County<br />

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Nottingham Forest <strong>vs</strong> Middlesbrough<br />

Both were early season title contenders, but<br />

have since seen their form tail off.<br />

They will be hoping to show just what they are<br />

capable of today though in an intriguing clash.<br />

Elsewhere, leaders Middlesbrough are looking<br />

to open up a three point gap between them<br />

and Blackburn today.<br />

With Rovers not in league action, even a draw<br />

for Boro at struggling Nottingham Forest will<br />

separate the top two on something other than<br />

goal difference.<br />

Forest have picked up form recently though,<br />

hammering <strong>Newcastle</strong> 5-1 in their last home<br />

game. They will be confident in extending<br />

their unbeaten run to five games this<br />

afternoon.


2016-17 FAWPL Northern Division: The Standings<br />

POS P W D L GD PTS<br />

1 Middlesbrough LFC 12 8 1 3 19 25<br />

2 Blackburn Rovers LFC 9 8 1 0 18 25<br />

3 Leicester <strong>City</strong> <strong>WFC</strong> 9 5 1 3 4 16<br />

4 <strong>Bradford</strong> <strong>City</strong> <strong>WFC</strong> 12 5 0 7 2 15<br />

5 Fylde LFC 10 4 3 3 6 12<br />

6 Derby County LFC 8 4 0 4 1 12<br />

7 Stoke <strong>City</strong> LFC 11 3 3 5 -4 12<br />

8 Huddersfield Town LFC 10 3 2 5 -6 11<br />

9 Nottingham Forest LFC 11 3 2 6 -14 11<br />

10 West Bromwich Albion <strong>WFC</strong> 8 3 1 4 -8 10<br />

11 <strong>Newcastle</strong> <strong>United</strong> <strong>WFC</strong> 10 2 0 8 -18 6<br />

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Abi Lee races away from her marker<br />

in last week’s SSE FA Women’s Cup<br />

clash with Blackburn Rovers.<br />

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Last time out: <strong>Bradford</strong> <strong>City</strong> 0-1 Blackburn Rovers<br />

Ellie Olds in action against Blackburn.<br />

<strong>Bradford</strong> <strong>City</strong> are out of the SSE FA Women's<br />

Cup after Faye McCoy's 87th minute effort<br />

secured Blackburn Rovers' passage to the<br />

second round.<br />

<strong>City</strong> boss Charlotte Stuart described their two<br />

previous meetings this season as having been<br />

settled by 'fine margins,' and that rang true<br />

again last Sunday.<br />

The Bantams hit the woodwork in both halves<br />

and prevented a talented Blackburn side from<br />

playing the football that has them favourites<br />

to win the league this year.<br />

But Rovers grafted and stole the win in the<br />

dying moments, McCoy coming off the bench<br />

to fire the winner in hard and low past<br />

Charlotte Oates.<br />

It was a tight and well-contested affair, with<br />

few real chances throughout as <strong>City</strong> frustrated<br />

Rovers but found it difficult to break through<br />

their organised back line.<br />

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Rovers' Ainsley Strickland fired over on the<br />

turn early on, while Ellie Olds headed a couple<br />

of Zoe Roberts' set pieces wide of the mark to<br />

set the tone.<br />

In such a scrappy encounter, balls into the box<br />

looked the most likely source of an opening<br />

goal as Hannah Campbell too directed one just<br />

off target before the half hour mark.<br />

Blackburn had their own openings in the first<br />

period as well, with Saffron Jordan seeing a<br />

goal disallowed for offside before Ellie Cook's<br />

header from a corner went wide.<br />

But it was <strong>City</strong> who had the biggest chance of<br />

the half and it was they who came closest to<br />

breaking the deadlock.<br />

Laura Elford played a perfectly-weighted pass<br />

through for Campbell, and her arrowed effort


Last time out: <strong>Bradford</strong> <strong>City</strong> 0-1 Blackburn Rovers<br />

on goal struck the foot of the post just before<br />

half time.<br />

It was a game suitable for the old cliché; a<br />

game that was going to either be won by<br />

some flukey goal or defensive error, or by a<br />

superb strike.<br />

The former appeared to be the more likely<br />

when Oates was forced to tip a goal bound<br />

corner over the bar, and then even more so<br />

when Roberts' looping cross hit the woodwork<br />

at the other end.<br />

But more quality crept into the game as time<br />

ticked by. Legs tired, more space and time was<br />

allowed on the ball, and chances were<br />

created.<br />

Campbell forced a very good low save out of<br />

her opposing 'keeper, Danielle Hill, before<br />

Rovers defender Kelsey Pearson was first to<br />

pounce on the loose ball to clear the danger.<br />

Blackburn were inches away from a winner<br />

too when Emma Shepherd rose highest at a<br />

corner and headed only a fraction wide.<br />

Though the game seemed destined for extra<br />

time, it wasn't to be.<br />

It may have been crueller to lose in extra time<br />

or on penalties, but for <strong>City</strong> to crash out<br />

thanks to McCoy's 87th minute strike was still<br />

tough to take.<br />

The substitute powerfully drove the ball into<br />

the bottom corner from distance, sparking<br />

wild celebrations by those in blue and white<br />

as they stole the victory.<br />

It was a difficult result for <strong>City</strong> to accept, but<br />

they can take heart from having matched<br />

arguably the league's best team so admirably,<br />

with positives aplenty to take into today’s<br />

clash with <strong>Newcastle</strong>.<br />

Shauna Legge runs at the Blackburn defence.<br />

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21 Questions<br />

Zoe Roberts<br />

What team do you support?<br />

Liverpool<br />

Who was your favourite player growing up?<br />

Steven Gerrard<br />

Team you most enjoy watching?<br />

Without being biased and saying Liverpool, Arsenal<br />

Best game you’ve ever watched?<br />

Without a doubt Liverpool <strong>vs</strong> AC Milan, the 2005<br />

Istanbul final<br />

Football fixture you most look forward to?<br />

Any cup or derby game, they’re always fiery<br />

Ronaldo or Messi?<br />

Ronaldo<br />

Your game...<br />

Do you have a pre-match routine?<br />

Getting up at the right time, eating well (usually<br />

shreddies and orange juice), getting changed in<br />

plenty of time before going out for the warm up<br />

Favourite shirt number?<br />

2 or 17<br />

Any footballing superstitions?<br />

Can’t say them all but one is always putting my<br />

right boot on first<br />

Best goal you ever scored?<br />

Free-kick against Middlesbrough last season for the<br />

reserves<br />

Favourite game you played in?<br />

Probably against Sheffield reserves last year when<br />

we won 5-0<br />

Favourite pair of boots you own(ed)?<br />

I’ve gone boring and only wear black boots now,<br />

but probably my pair of Nike total 90s when I was<br />

younger<br />

Your teammates...<br />

Best trainer?<br />

Lucy<br />

Worst trainer?<br />

Oates, she never does anything!<br />

Most skilful?<br />

Abi Lee, without a doubt<br />

Toughest?<br />

Paige or Elford<br />

Most intelligent?<br />

Chaz<br />

Least intelligent?<br />

Ellie, she has no idea most of the time<br />

Joker?<br />

2016-17 Stats<br />

Apps: 16<br />

Starts: 15<br />

Goals: 1<br />

Jess G or Oates<br />

Quickest?<br />

Hannah, or Rosie when she’s in the squad<br />

Slowest?<br />

Yellow/Red cards:<br />

0/0<br />

Position: Full-back<br />

She’ll probably kill me for this but I’m going to go<br />

with Bosh!<br />

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2016-17: Fixtures and Results<br />

COMP DATE TIME HOME SIDE AWAY SIDE VENUE<br />

L 21/08/16 14:00 <strong>Bradford</strong> <strong>City</strong> 0 2 Derby County Eccleshill <strong>United</strong><br />

L 28/08/16 14:00 <strong>Bradford</strong> <strong>City</strong> 0 2 Middlesbrough Eccleshill <strong>United</strong><br />

LCUP 04/09/16 14:00 West Brom Albion 2 1 <strong>Bradford</strong> <strong>City</strong> Rushall Olympic<br />

L 11/09/16 14:00 Fylde 3 2 <strong>Bradford</strong> <strong>City</strong> Fylde LFC<br />

L 14/09/16 19:45 <strong>Bradford</strong> <strong>City</strong> 1 0 Huddersfield Town Eccleshill <strong>United</strong><br />

L 18/09/16 14:00 <strong>Bradford</strong> <strong>City</strong> 4 0 Blackburn Rovers Eccleshill <strong>United</strong><br />

L 25/09/16 14:00 <strong>Bradford</strong> <strong>City</strong> 5 1 Stoke <strong>City</strong> Eccleshill <strong>United</strong><br />

L 02/10/16 14:00 Derby County 3 1 <strong>Bradford</strong> <strong>City</strong> Mickleover Sports<br />

L 05/10/16 19:45 Huddersfield Town 2 1 <strong>Bradford</strong> <strong>City</strong> Shelley FC<br />

L 09/10/16 14:00 <strong>Bradford</strong> <strong>City</strong> 4 1 Leicester <strong>City</strong> <strong>WFC</strong> Eccleshill <strong>United</strong><br />

PLATE 16/10/16 14:00 Crewe Alexandra 0 6 <strong>Bradford</strong> <strong>City</strong> Cumberland Arena<br />

L 23/10/16 14:00 <strong>Bradford</strong> <strong>City</strong> 6 0 Nottingham Forest Eccleshill <strong>United</strong><br />

L 30/10/16 14:00 Blackburn Rovers 4 2 <strong>Bradford</strong> <strong>City</strong> STF Stadium<br />

PLATE 06/11/16 14:00 <strong>Bradford</strong> <strong>City</strong> 2 2 Huddersfield Town Eccleshill <strong>United</strong><br />

CC 20/11/16 14:00 Ossett Albion 0 8 <strong>Bradford</strong> <strong>City</strong> Ossett Town FC<br />

L 27/11/16 14:00 Stoke <strong>City</strong> 1 3 <strong>Bradford</strong> <strong>City</strong> Norton <strong>United</strong><br />

FAC 04/12/16 13:00 <strong>Bradford</strong> <strong>City</strong> 0 1 Blackburn Rovers Eccleshill <strong>United</strong><br />

L 11/12/16 14:00 <strong>Bradford</strong> <strong>City</strong> <strong>Newcastle</strong> <strong>United</strong> Eccleshill <strong>United</strong><br />

CC 18/12/16 14:00 Yorkshire Amateur <strong>Bradford</strong> <strong>City</strong> Yorkshire Amateur<br />

L 08/01/17 14:00 Leicester <strong>City</strong> <strong>Bradford</strong> <strong>City</strong> Riverside<br />

L 15/01/17 14:00 <strong>Newcastle</strong> <strong>United</strong> <strong>Bradford</strong> <strong>City</strong> SportNorthumbria<br />

L 12/02/17 14:00 West Brom Albion <strong>Bradford</strong> <strong>City</strong> Rushall Olympic<br />

L 26/02/17 14:00 Middlesbrough <strong>Bradford</strong> <strong>City</strong> Thornaby FC<br />

L 26/03/17 14:00 Nottingham Forest <strong>Bradford</strong> <strong>City</strong> Basford <strong>United</strong> FC<br />

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<strong>Bradford</strong> <strong>City</strong> <strong>WFC</strong> <strong>Newcastle</strong> <strong>United</strong> <strong>WFC</strong><br />

1 Charlotte Oates<br />

2 Zoe Roberts<br />

TODAY’S TEAMS<br />

Sophie Williams<br />

Jessica Foster<br />

3 Shauna Legge<br />

4 Ellie Olds<br />

5 Meg Lawson<br />

6 Faye Boshell<br />

7 Charlotte Stuart<br />

8 Jess Graham<br />

9 Lucy Sowerby<br />

10 Hannah Campbell<br />

11 Laura Elford<br />

12 Rosie McDonnell<br />

13 Chloe Precious<br />

14 Paige Crosby<br />

15 Chelsie Stokes<br />

16 Keavy Smith<br />

17 Jade Brindle<br />

18 Abi Lee<br />

MANAGER<br />

Charlotte Stuart<br />

COACHING STAFF<br />

Lee Harrison<br />

Faye Boshell<br />

Chris Birks<br />

PHYSIO<br />

Kirsty Goodbold<br />

Sunday 11 December<br />

2016<br />

Kick-off 2PM<br />

Today’s Officials<br />

Referee<br />

Colin Urwin<br />

Assistants<br />

Bob Gatenby<br />

Brandon Blackburn<br />

Stephanie Ord<br />

Jessica Clark<br />

Brooke Cochrane<br />

Shannon Eterington<br />

Nicole Dack<br />

Allison Cowling<br />

Jessica Round<br />

Mollie Lambert<br />

Hanna Reid<br />

Jasmine McNaught<br />

Ellen Packham<br />

Chelsea Basnett<br />

Sarah Burn<br />

Terri Neilson<br />

Elizabeth Fraser<br />

Kate Brooks<br />

MANAGER<br />

Victoria Greenwell<br />

COACHING STAFF<br />

Alex Curran<br />

Ross Flintoft

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