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

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

<strong>Fylde</strong><br />

FA Women’s Premier League<br />

Cup<br />

Sunday 3 September 2017<br />

Kick-off 2PM


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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, Jess Kirton, Paul Rogers<br />

Photographer: George Wood<br />

Senior Coaches: Charlotte Stuart, Faye Boshell,<br />

Lee Harrison, Antonia Butcher, Meg Lawson<br />

Junior Coaches: Adam Fox, Andy Uttley, Joe Bray,<br />

Paul Scott, Georgia Clipson, Danny Barker, Qasim<br />

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 />

2017<br />

THE DETAILS<br />

First Team Home Venue:<br />

Eccleshill United, 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 />

Instagram: @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 Jordane Allison: <strong>City</strong>’s summer signing speaks<br />

about settling in to her new surroundings<br />

11 Reserves: The Bantams’ second senior side kick off<br />

their new season this afternoon in Blackburn<br />

12-13 2017-18 Sponsorship: The first team player and<br />

management sponsors for the season<br />

14 Today’s Opposition: Looking at today’s<br />

opponents, <strong>Fylde</strong><br />

15-17 The FA Women’s Premier League: Previewing this<br />

afternoon’s games, recapping last week’s, and looking at<br />

the current standings<br />

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

as they hosted Nottingham Forest<br />

21 21 Questions: Midfielder Hannah Smith talks<br />

superstitions and teammates<br />

23 Fixtures and results: The first team schedule for<br />

the 2017/18 season<br />

THE STATS<br />

<strong>Bradford</strong> <strong>City</strong> have played seven FA Women’s<br />

Premier League Cup ties—winning four.<br />

Since <strong>Fylde</strong> relaunched their ladies’ section, these<br />

two have played each other twice, with <strong>Fylde</strong><br />

winning both games. They have also taken the lead<br />

in both of those victories.<br />

THE ISSUE<br />

Editor: Ameé Ruszkai<br />

Photos: George Wood<br />

Paul Rogers<br />

Print: Office Outlet<br />

(<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 />

Laura Elford strikes the ball at goal in the draw with Nottingham Forest.<br />

(Photo: Paul Rogers)<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 Cup first round fixture<br />

against <strong>Fylde</strong> Ladies. A warm welcome to all players, club officials and spectators who have<br />

made the journey across the Pennines for this afternoon’s match.<br />

<strong>Fylde</strong> have played just one fixture and are currently unbeaten, but this is the cup where<br />

anything can happen. This is a difficult time for <strong>Fylde</strong> as it is about a year ago that they<br />

tragically lost their player, Zoe Tynan. We will be having a minute’s silence before the game<br />

begins as a mark of respect for Zoe. At <strong>Bradford</strong> we were all affected by this sad news last year<br />

and we invite you to respect the minute’s silence with us all. Our thoughts are with <strong>Fylde</strong> and<br />

Zoe's family and friends at this difficult time.<br />

In terms of our own start to the season, last week’s 0-0 draw against Nottingham Forest<br />

turned out to be a very feisty affair, with Paige Crosby being stretchered off and needing<br />

emergency dental treatment, as well as Charlotte Stuart requiring 20 stitches on a nasty head<br />

wound.<br />

There was some tremendous commitment on show from our players, and I am certain that<br />

last season we would have lost this game, given the circumstances that prevailed.<br />

Well done girls, keep it going today.<br />

Our Reserve team also kick off their season today with an away game at Blackburn Rovers. It<br />

will be interesting to see how that unfolds.<br />

Off the field there are still opportunities available to sponsor individual players or teams,<br />

please get in touch if you are interested and can help at all.<br />

(sally@bcwfc.co.uk)<br />

Cheer the girls on today.<br />

Enjoy the game,<br />

Sally<br />

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Match Preview: <strong>Bradford</strong> <strong>City</strong> <strong>vs</strong> Nottingham Forest<br />

Shauna Legge battles for the ball against <strong>Fylde</strong> last season. (Photo: George Wood)<br />

<strong>Bradford</strong> <strong>City</strong> welcome <strong>Fylde</strong> today in the first<br />

round of the FA Women’s Premier League<br />

Cup.<br />

Team news<br />

The Bantams will be without two key players<br />

today – defender Paige Crosby and playermanager<br />

Charlotte Stuart.<br />

Crosby had to be stretchered off in the draw<br />

with Nottingham Forest last week after<br />

suffering a nasty looking knee injury.<br />

Stuart too was substituted in that game after<br />

a facial injury which required 20 stitches.<br />

Current form<br />

<strong>Bradford</strong> come into the game looking for their<br />

first win of the season, following defeat at<br />

Leicester and a draw against Forest.<br />

<strong>Fylde</strong>, meanwhile, convincingly beat last<br />

year’s runners-up Middlesbrough 3-0 on the<br />

opening weekend, before their clash with<br />

Derby County was postponed last Sunday.<br />

Previous meetings<br />

These two have faced each other twice since<br />

the launch of <strong>Fylde</strong>’s ladies’ side, with today’s<br />

visitors winning both encounters.<br />

Hannah Smith is also a doubt this afternoon<br />

with a groin problem.<br />

However, these blows are cushioned as the<br />

hosts welcome back both Ellie Olds and Lucy<br />

Preston.<br />

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They were 3-2 victors on home soil at the<br />

beginning of last season, despite being<br />

reduced to 10 early on.<br />

<strong>Fylde</strong> then completed the double over <strong>City</strong><br />

with a 2-1 win here at Eccleshill United as they<br />

finished one place and four points above the<br />

Bantams in the


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Jordane Allison: “I’ve been made to feel very welcome“<br />

Summer signing Jordane “JJ” Allison<br />

believes the team’s confidence will<br />

soar once that first goal goes in, with<br />

<strong>Bradford</strong> <strong>City</strong> still awaiting their first<br />

win of the season.<br />

After losing 2-0 at Leicester on the<br />

opening weekend, <strong>City</strong> were held to a<br />

goalless draw by Nottingham Forest<br />

last Sunday.<br />

While the team were more creative<br />

than in their previous outing, they still<br />

failed to find the back of the net and<br />

that first win of the season.<br />

But Allison has seen plenty of positives<br />

in her first two competitive outings for<br />

the club.<br />

“Last week we created more chances<br />

than in the Leicester defeat and I<br />

thought we were unlucky not score,”<br />

she said.<br />

“The defence were solid as well<br />

despite two major injuries – hopefully<br />

Paige [Crosby] and Charlotte [Stuart]<br />

will be okay and return as soon as<br />

possible.<br />

“I think we just need to keep<br />

experimenting in the final third and<br />

also keep our composure,” Allison<br />

added.<br />

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Jordane Allison: “I’ve been made to feel very welcome”<br />

“The chances and shots are coming.<br />

“We’re utilising that overload in<br />

midfield to create these opportunities.<br />

“And after we find that first goal, I<br />

think we’ll start banging them in.”<br />

Allison arrived from Brighouse Town<br />

this summer and has slotted into the<br />

team’s new set-up, which includes a<br />

switch to three at the back.<br />

Player-manager Stuart admitted<br />

during the summer that the decision<br />

to change the team’s formation was<br />

because it was better suited to the<br />

players.<br />

Allison, playing as a wing-back,<br />

believes that rings true for her role,<br />

and has given credit to the team for<br />

helping her settle into the position.<br />

“It’s a professional set up here at<br />

<strong>Bradford</strong> and the coaching staff are<br />

class,” she said.<br />

“The formation we’re playing gives<br />

me license to attack but it also gives<br />

us more security at the back.<br />

“It’s hard coming to a new club,<br />

especially when all the players know<br />

each other and have played together<br />

before.<br />

“But they’ve all made me feel very<br />

welcome.<br />

“It’s a good vibe.”<br />

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Reserves: Season starts today for <strong>City</strong>’s second team<br />

<strong>Bradford</strong> <strong>City</strong>’s reserves shake hands with Sheffield United before their 3-1 win.<br />

<strong>Bradford</strong> <strong>City</strong>’s reserves kick off their new<br />

season this afternoon, taking on last year’s FA<br />

Women’s Premier League Reserve Northern<br />

Division champions, Blackburn Rovers.<br />

The team has a complete new look to it this<br />

year, with coaches Toni Butcher, 20, and Meg<br />

Lawson, 21, taking on a team that has<br />

inherited most of last year’s under-18 squad.<br />

Eleven of those signed on for the team are<br />

teenagers, while none of the squad are aged<br />

over 23 going into today’s clash.<br />

But their opposition too will be a young side,<br />

with Rovers known for fielding a youthful<br />

reserve team with huge success—winning the<br />

league last year and coming runners-up in the<br />

cup.<br />

The Bantams go into the game on a run of<br />

three straight wins, having closed out their<br />

pre-season schedule in style.<br />

After losing their opening friendly at Durham,<br />

<strong>City</strong> fought out 4-4 draws with both Castleford<br />

White Rose and Barnsley, coming from behind<br />

to do so in each game.<br />

They then secured their first win at Sheffield<br />

United, before beating Leeds United and<br />

Brighouse Athletic ahead of today’s trip to<br />

Lancashire.<br />

“I’m very excited to see what this season<br />

holds,” Butcher said this week.<br />

“The balance we have with experience and<br />

youth is really starting to gel and the players<br />

are all working well together.”<br />

Lawson added: “It’s all come together at the<br />

right time and we are confident of a positive<br />

start to the season.”<br />

Read the full interview with both coaches<br />

online at bcwfc.co.uk, and follow @BCWFC on<br />

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Today’s opposition: <strong>Fylde</strong><br />

<strong>Fylde</strong> LFC were originally formed<br />

under the name Duke of York in 1971<br />

and were founder members of the<br />

then North West Women's Football<br />

League.<br />

They were renamed in 1977 as<br />

Preston Rangers W.F.C. and, in both<br />

the 1982-83 and 1989-90 seasons,<br />

reached the semi finals of the FA<br />

Women's Cup<br />

In 1997 they became Preston North<br />

End W.F.C. and finished 1997–98 as<br />

champions, winning promotion to the<br />

Northern Combination Women's<br />

Football League.<br />

In 1999 the club was officially<br />

affiliated with Preston North End F.C.<br />

The club won the Northern<br />

Combination Women's Football<br />

League in 2005–06 and were<br />

promoted into the FA Women's<br />

Premier League Northern Division for<br />

the first time.<br />

The club was rebranded <strong>Fylde</strong> Ladies<br />

F.C. in May 2016 after switching its<br />

association from Preston North End to<br />

A.F.C. <strong>Fylde</strong>.<br />

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FAWPL Round-up: Sunday 27 August<br />

Huddersfield Town top the Northern Division<br />

table after two games, with 10 goals scored<br />

and six points gained.<br />

They kept another clean sheet at the<br />

weekend with a 6-0 hammering of<br />

Guiseley, goals from Kate Mallin and<br />

Emily Heckler (2) putting them 3-0 up<br />

by the break.<br />

Former Bantams Hannah Campbell and<br />

Danielle Whitham then added three<br />

more in the second half, the former<br />

netting her second after a red card for<br />

Guiseley’s Charlotte Higginson.<br />

Goals from Alexandra Taylor and Saffron<br />

Jordon gave champions Blackburn Rovers a 2-<br />

0 win over West Bromwich Albion, meaning<br />

they sit second in the standings.<br />

Leicester are the only other side with a 100<br />

per cent record after two games, sitting third<br />

after a 3-1 victory at Stoke <strong>City</strong>.<br />

An own goal gave Stoke a third minute lead,<br />

but they again threw it away as Rosie Axten<br />

scored two in three second half minutes<br />

before Sophie Domingo added a late<br />

insurance goal.<br />

A point for Nottingham Forest in a goalless<br />

draw with <strong>Bradford</strong> <strong>City</strong> puts them fourth,<br />

following their narrow 1-0 win over Guiseley,<br />

while Middlesbrough got their first win of the<br />

season in the most entertaining game of the<br />

Results—Sunday 27 August:<br />

<strong>Bradford</strong> <strong>City</strong> 0-0 Nottingham Forest<br />

<strong>Fylde</strong> P-P Derby County<br />

Huddersfield Town 6-0 Guiseley Vixens<br />

Stoke <strong>City</strong> 1-3 Leicester <strong>City</strong><br />

West Bromwich Albion 0-2 Blackburn Rovers<br />

Wolverhampton Wanderers 3-4 Middlesbrough<br />

weekend.<br />

Wolves took the lead after only one minute<br />

through Jade Cross.<br />

But Boro were level less than 60 seconds later<br />

thanks to Anna Birtwhistle.<br />

The two teams then exchanged blows,<br />

meaning the score read 3-3 going into the<br />

final moments.<br />

But there was still time for a winner, scored by<br />

Emma Foster in dramatic fashion as she<br />

finished in the 88th minute.<br />

<strong>Fylde</strong> and Derby County were the only two<br />

teams not in action, with their clash<br />

postponed.<br />

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FAWPL Preview: Sunday 3 September<br />

The magic of the cup is back this weekend in<br />

the FA Women’s Premier League.<br />

<strong>Bradford</strong> <strong>City</strong> and <strong>Fylde</strong> are the only<br />

Northern Division sides not facing lower<br />

league opposition, as they take on each<br />

other today at Eccleshill United.<br />

Blackburn Rovers progressed the furthest<br />

from the division last year, reaching the<br />

semi-finals of the cup only to lose to runners<br />

-up Charlton Athletic.<br />

They take on Barnsley, bottom of Northern<br />

Division One, hoping to start a similarly<br />

fruitful run this year.<br />

Most of the division go into their ties as<br />

favourites.<br />

Top of the table Huddersfield Town take on<br />

recently-relegated Newcastle United, while<br />

Leicester and Derby County will hope to<br />

maintain their 100 per cent records against<br />

Chorley and Rotherham United respectively.<br />

Solihull Moors, welcoming Guiseley, and<br />

Liverpool Marshalls Feds, visiting Wolves, will<br />

hope to cause upsets against the newlypromoted<br />

sides, both of whom are yet to get<br />

points on the board in the third tier.<br />

Stoke <strong>City</strong> and West Bromwich Albion have<br />

also suffered two defeats from two so far.<br />

They will hope to get their first wins in<br />

favourable games – the Potters travelling to<br />

Morecambe while the Baggies are hosted by<br />

Long Eaton United.<br />

Fixtures—Sunday 3 September:<br />

Blackburn Rovers <strong>vs</strong> Barnsley<br />

<strong>Bradford</strong> <strong>City</strong> <strong>vs</strong> <strong>Fylde</strong><br />

Chorley <strong>vs</strong> Leicester <strong>City</strong><br />

Derby County <strong>vs</strong> Rotherham United<br />

Long Eaton United <strong>vs</strong> West Bromwich Albion<br />

Middlesbrough <strong>vs</strong> Burton Albion<br />

Morecambe <strong>vs</strong> Stoke <strong>City</strong><br />

Newcastle United <strong>vs</strong> Huddersfield Town<br />

Nottingham Forest <strong>vs</strong> Leeds United<br />

Solihull Moors <strong>vs</strong> Guiseley Vixens<br />

Wolves <strong>vs</strong> Liverpool Marshalls Feds<br />

Elsewhere, recently-rebranded Leeds United<br />

visit a Nottingham Forest side who have<br />

started well with a win and a draw.<br />

Completing the line-up for first round fixtures<br />

featuring Northern Division clubs,<br />

Middlesbrough then play Burton Albion on<br />

home soil, looking to follow up Sunday’s win<br />

over Wolves with another.<br />

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2017-18 FAWPL Northern Division: The Standings<br />

POS P W D L GD PTS<br />

1 Huddersfield Town LFC 2 2 0 0 10 6<br />

2 Blackburn Rovers LFC 2 2 0 0 5 6<br />

3 Leicester <strong>City</strong> WFC 2 2 0 0 4 6<br />

4 Nottingham Forest LFC 2 1 1 0 1 4<br />

5 Derby County LFC 1 1 0 0 3 3<br />

6 <strong>Fylde</strong> LFC 1 1 0 0 3 3<br />

7 Middlesbrough WFC 2 1 0 1 -2 3<br />

8 <strong>Bradford</strong> <strong>City</strong> WFC 2 0 1 1 -2 1<br />

9 Wolverhampton Wanderers WFC 2 0 0 2 -4 0<br />

10 Stoke <strong>City</strong> LFC 2 0 0 2 -5 0<br />

11 West Bromwich Albion WFC 2 0 0 2 -6 0<br />

12 Guiseley Vixens WFC 2 0 0 2 -7 0<br />

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Last time out: <strong>Bradford</strong> <strong>City</strong> 0-0 Nottingham Forest<br />

The two teams shake hands before kick off. (Photo: Paul Rogers)<br />

<strong>Bradford</strong> <strong>City</strong> endured a tough scrap<br />

to keep a physical Nottingham Forest<br />

at bay, but the opposition held the<br />

Bantams off just as well in a gritty<br />

game at sunny Eccleshill.<br />

Within the first minute, Paige Crosby<br />

took a knock to the face from a Forest<br />

midfielder that seemed to set the tone<br />

for the rest of the game.<br />

frustrating rally of Bantams shots in<br />

the 14th minute not doing enough to<br />

beat the Forest defence or the<br />

‘keeper.<br />

Some of the biggest head-scratching<br />

of the game came from the fans, as<br />

several poor challenges came in<br />

without a single booking from the<br />

referee.<br />

Dangerous, mistimed challenges had<br />

play pausing more often than not for<br />

knocked players, and it was difficult<br />

for either team to get into any real<br />

flow of play for the first 10 minutes.<br />

The game picked up after that, with a<br />

With the tackles still flying in, it was<br />

inevitable there were going to be<br />

some injuries.<br />

And the first major incident came to<br />

Paige Crosby, who was knocked on the<br />

ball and landed awkwardly, forcing the<br />

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Last time out: <strong>Bradford</strong> <strong>City</strong> 0-0 Nottingham Forest<br />

physios on and stopping play for<br />

almost eight minutes. Crosby<br />

eventually had to be stretchered off,<br />

and was replaced by Zoe Roberts.<br />

It took until the eighth minute of<br />

added time for the referee to finally<br />

produce a card, and it came as a<br />

yellow for the Nottingham number<br />

four, Summer Holmes, for a harsh<br />

challenge on a <strong>City</strong> defender.<br />

Forest’s number eight, Trina Greaves<br />

proved one of the more physical<br />

players in their midfield arsenal,<br />

getting stuck in with powerful tackles<br />

and feeding balls through the middle.<br />

However, the second half showed the<br />

Bantams pressing much more on the<br />

attack, forcing some desperate<br />

clearances from the Forest defence.<br />

At the hour mark, <strong>City</strong> worked hard to<br />

get into some promising positions.<br />

Shots from Charlotte Stuart, Roberts,<br />

Laura Elford, and Yasmin Ayub were<br />

on target, but were blocked defiantly<br />

by a sturdy Forest defence.<br />

Nottingham heaped their own<br />

pressure on too midway through the<br />

second half with each attempt<br />

eventually coming to nothing, and<br />

leaving the Bantams space to finally<br />

break away on the counter.<br />

Another rough challenge forced<br />

Charlotte Stuart to the floor with a<br />

nasty head injury, and after emerging<br />

onto her feet again with her head<br />

bandaged, she was substituted for<br />

Jess Graham.<br />

Some heavy <strong>Bradford</strong> pressure in the<br />

last 10 minutes almost resulted in the<br />

breakthrough, with Elford blasting two<br />

powerful shots towards goal, but both<br />

went just wide of the target to leave<br />

the Forest ‘keeper untroubled.<br />

Nottingham thought they’d clinched<br />

the winner in the 90th minute as the<br />

ball was rifled into the side-netting<br />

after deflecting off a <strong>City</strong> defender,<br />

but it was out for a corner. The<br />

resulting ball in was cleared, and the<br />

full time whistle finally blew.<br />

The result leaves <strong>City</strong> with their first<br />

point of the season, and means<br />

Nottingham Forest are still to beat<br />

Bantams on home turf after losing the<br />

three previous encounters.<br />

On the run of play, the scoreline was a<br />

fair result, but the Bantams will be<br />

keen to work on putting away the<br />

chances they worked hard to create in<br />

this game.<br />

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Hannah Smith<br />

What team do you support?<br />

Oldham Athletic<br />

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

Michael Owen<br />

Team you most enjoy watching?<br />

Real Madrid<br />

Best game you’ve ever watched?<br />

Oldham <strong>vs</strong> Liverpool in the FA Cup in 2013. Last<br />

minute winner by Matty Smith!<br />

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

When we play Huddersfield<br />

Ronaldo or Messi?<br />

Ronaldo<br />

Your game...<br />

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

Tea the night before every game with my best<br />

mates, good vibes<br />

Favourite shirt number?<br />

10<br />

Any footballing superstitions?<br />

Toilet before kick off<br />

Best goal you ever scored?<br />

For Leeds Met Uni—Last minute 30-yard goal to go<br />

to extra time in the semi-finals, and then we won<br />

the game on my 21st birthday<br />

Favourite game you played in?<br />

Winning the County Cup final against Brighouse last<br />

season. Back from injury, scored and got man of<br />

the match. The best feeling!<br />

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

Adidas World Cup boots, keeping it old school<br />

Your teammates...<br />

Best trainer?<br />

2017-18 Stats<br />

Apps: 2<br />

Yellow/Red cards:<br />

0/0<br />

Starts: 2<br />

Position: Midfield<br />

Goals: 0<br />

Shauna—runs her Legges off<br />

Worst trainer?<br />

Laura Elford—always working<br />

Most skilful?<br />

Abi Lee, 100%<br />

Toughest?<br />

Laura Elford<br />

Most intelligent?<br />

Yaz, she’s had more years on earth<br />

Least intelligent?<br />

Paige Crosby<br />

Joker?<br />

Apart from myself, JJ and her dark humour<br />

Quickest?<br />

Shauna Captain Legge<br />

Slowest?<br />

Zoe Roberts—she’s getting there<br />

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2017-18: Fixtures and Results<br />

COMP DATE TIME HOME SIDE AWAY SIDE<br />

L 20/08/17 14:00 Leicester <strong>City</strong> 2 0 <strong>Bradford</strong> <strong>City</strong><br />

L 27/08/17 14:00 <strong>Bradford</strong> <strong>City</strong> 0 0 Nottingham Forest<br />

LCUP 03/09/17 14:00 <strong>Bradford</strong> <strong>City</strong> <strong>Fylde</strong><br />

L 10/09/17 14:00 <strong>Bradford</strong> <strong>City</strong> Wolverhampton<br />

L 20/09/17 19:45 Huddersfield Town <strong>Bradford</strong> <strong>City</strong><br />

L 01/10/17 14:00 <strong>Bradford</strong> <strong>City</strong> Derby County<br />

L 08/10/17 14:00 Guiseley Vixens <strong>Bradford</strong> <strong>City</strong><br />

L 11/10/17 19:45 <strong>Bradford</strong> <strong>City</strong> Huddersfield Town<br />

L 15/10/17 14:00 Stoke <strong>City</strong> <strong>Bradford</strong> <strong>City</strong><br />

L 22/10/17 14:00 <strong>Bradford</strong> <strong>City</strong> West Brom Albion<br />

L 05/11/17 14:00 <strong>Fylde</strong> <strong>Bradford</strong> <strong>City</strong><br />

L 12/11/17 14:00 Middlesbrough <strong>Bradford</strong> <strong>City</strong><br />

L 19/11/17 14:00 Nottingham Forest <strong>Bradford</strong> <strong>City</strong><br />

L 26/11/17 14:00 Wolverhampton <strong>Bradford</strong> <strong>City</strong><br />

L 14/01/18 14:00 <strong>Bradford</strong> <strong>City</strong> Stoke <strong>City</strong><br />

L 21/01/18 14:00 <strong>Bradford</strong> <strong>City</strong> <strong>Fylde</strong><br />

L 28/01/18 14:00 Derby County <strong>Bradford</strong> <strong>City</strong><br />

L 11/02/18 14:00 <strong>Bradford</strong> <strong>City</strong> Middlesbrough<br />

L 25/02/18 14:00 <strong>Bradford</strong> <strong>City</strong> Blackburn Rovers<br />

L 11/03/18 14:00 <strong>Bradford</strong> <strong>City</strong> Guiseley Vixens<br />

L 25/03/18 14:00 West Brom Albion <strong>Bradford</strong> <strong>City</strong><br />

L 13/05/18 14:00 <strong>Bradford</strong> <strong>City</strong> Leicester <strong>City</strong><br />

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

1 Nat Saunders<br />

2 Zoe Roberts<br />

3 Shauna Legge (c)<br />

4 Ellie Olds<br />

5 Yasmin Ayub<br />

7 Charlotte Stuart<br />

8 Abi Lee<br />

9 Ellie White<br />

10 Laura Elford<br />

11 Jordane Allison<br />

12 Hannah Smith<br />

13 Lauren Santoro<br />

14 Paige Crosby<br />

15 Bryony Hanson<br />

17 Katy Woodcock<br />

18 Jess Graham<br />

TODAY’S TEAMS<br />

Sunday 3 September<br />

2017<br />

Kick-off 2PM<br />

Today’s Officials<br />

Referee<br />

Michael Gilvarry<br />

Assistants<br />

Frederick Mensah<br />

Geoff Wilson<br />

<strong>Fylde</strong> LFC<br />

Alex Brooks<br />

Olivia Wild<br />

Olivia Wilkes<br />

Hannah Forster<br />

Shannon Beckwith<br />

Jenna Carroll<br />

Danielle Young<br />

Eve Kennerley<br />

Sophie Charlton<br />

Lauren Davies<br />

Lagan Makin<br />

Laura Merrin<br />

Rachel Darbyshire<br />

Veatriki Sarri<br />

Charlotte Farrell<br />

Natasha Flint<br />

Danielle Lea<br />

Olivia Fuller<br />

Hannah Mitchell<br />

Leah Foster<br />

Becky Abbott<br />

Demi Devraux<br />

MANAGER<br />

MANAGER<br />

Charlotte Stuart<br />

COACHING STAFF<br />

Lee Harrison<br />

Faye Boshell<br />

Conrad Prendergast<br />

COACHING STAFF<br />

Robert Curran<br />

Kimberley Turner<br />

Mark Wallace<br />

PHYSIO<br />

Thomas Khan

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