Rinsola Babajide proved to be the match-winner after coming off the bench for Liverpool against Brighton
Substitute Rinsola Babajide broke Brighton’s hearts with a late winner to condemn the FAWSL newcomers to their third successive league defeat in a match they didn’t deserve to lose. Continue reading
Brighton won the Premier League Southern in 2016 and will be in WSL 1 next season (Photo: Clive Jones)
The race is on to see who can buy the best team in women’s football.
If the creation of the Super League was a turning point in the game in England, the current upheaval represents a crucial, perhaps defining, watershed. Continue reading
Brighton’s women train alongside the men at the club’s Elite Football Performance Centre
Brighton & Hove Albion are prepared to plough more money into their women’s team to help them secure a place in the new-look top tier of the FA Women’s Super League.
In a not entirely unexpected move, the club have vowed to invest a sum “well into seven figures” to persuade the FA to grant Brighton Women one of the new licences to enable them to compete next season in FAWSL 1. Continue reading
Chelsea’s team of superstars were made to work for their victory against second-tier Brighton (Photo: Geoff Penn/BHAFC)
Never has defeat tasted so good. Brighton’s Super League newcomers stood up to the current best team in the land and emerged with dignity and self-respect and the praise of both managers ringing in their ears. Continue reading
Brighton showed two sides to their character, shrugging off the twin setbacks of surrendering a two-goal lead and having their goalkeeper sent off to clinch a valuable and significant victory over Durham and give new boss Hope Powell a winning start. Continue reading
Ambition mission: Hope Powell wants to manage Brighton in WSL 1 (Photo: Sent Her Forward)
Hope Powell has seen it all before. As England manager for what now seems an unimaginable 15 years, she led the country she once played for to unprecedented heights, twice winning the Cyprus Cup but more significantly, reaching the European Championship final and the World Cup quarter-finals twice, all while helping to knock the neglected England Women’s set-up into shape. Continue reading
Sent Her Forward 2017-18 preview: Part one – The pick of FAWSL 2
Like so many WSL 2 clubs, Watford have brought in a host of new faces (Photo: Neale Blackburn)
Two Super League debutants join the second tier of England’s élite set-up for what promises to be a historic – and fascinating – season. Continue reading
