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Carrie Dunn

1 year

And you can now PRE-ORDER 'Woman Up: Pitches, Pay and Periods - The Progress and Potential of Women's Football', which is out in October!

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Carrie Dunn

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4 years

Know what makes me laugh? Alex Scott has a DEGREE IN SPORTS JOURNALISM AND BROADCASTING. She is the MOST qualified to present ANY of these programmes. She could present them ALL and it would STILL be entirely fair and justified.

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5 years

*men's

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Manchester City now go to Wembley in an attempt to win a domestic treble. Something that has never been achieved in the history of football in this country.

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5 years

I'm sorry, what? They're cancelling their own events but telling the rest of us to carry on as normal?

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5 years

Sir Graham Brady has just emailed Conservative MPs telling them that the House of Commons "has cancelled all events"

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5 years

Have to say, it's really something to have the worst three prime ministers in history IN SUCCESSION.

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4 years

Alex Scott is better than you. At football. At punditry. At ballroom dancing. And at being a decent respectful human being.

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1 year

"Gianni Infantino making his way down to the stage, through a lot of open doors" - Robyn Cowen with the shade during the trophy presentation @robyniocowen

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7 years

**suddenly very much cares about Doctor Who despite never having watched any**

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3 years

Clubs have been punished for years for mismanagement and rule breaking. Points deductions have punished innocent players and fans, and nobody has cared about that. The Super League Six do not deserve any special treatment.

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6 years

AHAHAHAHA Jim Courier just asked Daniela Hantuchova if she preferred playing on indoor or outdoor courts. She said indoor. He said, "I suppose with your hair, you need to keep that in place, it's beautiful." Hantuchova, with withering scorn: "Yes, Jim, that is the main reason."

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5 years

@AITA_reddit "She does not work, but she's in school full time to be a nurse" AND she runs the household as well, it seems from this account. So...she works. Twice over.

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4 years

I don't think "we slag off ALL the pundits and send them obscene personal abuse!" is quite the winning comeback you think it is, Leeds fans.

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3 years

Before I forget, I'll just remind everyone that the @Lionesses last reached a major international final in 2009. Feel confident I'll retweet this several times in the next few days.

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3 years

I did laugh at that. "Emma Hayes, who led Chelsea to the Women's Champions League final this season, and Gary Neville. **awkward pause**"

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3 years

I've said it before and I'll say it again, men are too emotional and temperamental to cope with top-level sport.

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3 years

Eriksen's team-mate who got him in the recovery position deserves the highest Danish honour.

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1 year

Female footballers never, ever have the luxury option of "concentrating on the sport". It is exhausting, but it also means that those in power can never just assume that those women will "shut up and play".

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11 months

Female footballers owe you nothing. This expectation on women to be nice and kind and give up their time over and over again is nonsensical. (And that's leaving aside the fact that Mearps is one of the most generous when it comes to this sort of stuff.)

Jamie Spencer

@jamiespencer155

11 months

Mary Earps kept a clean sheet in a 5-0 win yesterday, gave up her time afterwards to engage with fans and still got home to nasty stuff like this because it was impossible to get to everyone. Mary has always been one of the most generous with her time when she absolutely doesn’t

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4 years

@AITA_reddit Your wife IS better than you, but not because of her work - because she understands that marriage is a partnership, not a competition. YTA.

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5 years

@AITA_reddit Hi Rachel. Make sure Ross tells Mona that you're living together.

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2 years

Perhaps the quality of goalkeeping in the Premier League would improve if they made the goals a little bit smaller, just to help them out, with their big unwieldy bodies, can't be easy for them

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4 years

@AITA_reddit Can't jeopardise your career, can jeopardise your marriage. Great thinking.

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3 years

@AITA_online I was with them up until the gift list, then very clearly they turned into massive A. I feel bad for the sister-in-law who has offered an extremely reasonable compromise in the circumstances.

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7 years

The problem with men's football is the state of the goalkeeping. Just not good enough. #ARSLIV

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4 years

Footballers: We can't wait for the virus to be under control so fans can come back to support us! Also footballers: We're going to bugger off to Dubai for Christmas despite it not being essential travel, catch coronavirus, put matches at risk, and extend the pandemic!

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4 years

@redditships "Hi, you're beautiful, I KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE" Do not do this, dude.

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4 years

@AITA_reddit You would be TA even if it was "padding". How rude! You should be grateful you get to see any naked breasts at all. Oh, except you won't now.

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4 years

@AITA_reddit "I treated him as though he were mine apart from resenting him and loving my daughter more!"

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7 months

The most important lesson to learn from Arsenal is, I'd say, the fact that they committed to the women 30-odd years ago and have stuck with it. They've put them at the Emirates repeatedly (sometimes with tiny attendances) and shown faith that this will develop.

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6 years

KNIGHTHOOD FOR JOS BUTTLER JOS BUTTLER FOR PRIME MINISTER JOS BUTTLER TO BE IN CHARGE OF THE ENTIRE WORLD RT IF YOU AGREE

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3 years

Imagine paying money to watch a football match and booing your own players for a simple anti-racism gesture, and then singing sectarian songs. (And then people defend your idiocy by saying that you just object to mixing sport and politics.)

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5 years

@AITA_reddit The boyfriend is awful, the boyfriend's mom is awful, periods are awful.

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7 months

I think this thread also highlights a couple of really important things - mostly around Arsenal's longevity in the women's game. People are looking at the Emirates attendances and telling other clubs to learn from them. Well, yes, sort of...

Women in Football

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7 months

"David, is this a publicity stunt?" They didn't take David Dein seriously when he proposed to set up @ArsenalWFC in the 1990s. They're not laughing any more. #WIFBeInspired @barclaysfooty

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6 years

@SkyAnton @ThePUPodcast I've decided they have a brilliant plan. Saxton sucks, right? So the show will be terrible. And then WWE will be like AHA, IF YOU'D LET RENEE PRESENT IT WOULD HAVE BEEN AWESOME and Saudi Arabia will see the error of their ways and the patriarchy will come crashing down globally.

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1 year

Howling crying. I'm so so happy. Congratulations to Sarina Wiegman, today's @Lionesses and all the women who have laid the groundwork over decades and decades to get us here.

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Carrie Dunn

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4 years

Karen Carney is doing the punditry on Match of the Day tonight. She would be forgiven a wry smile or two. But she won't do that, because she's a professional. (I'm laughing, obvs, cos I love schadenfreude.)

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Carrie Dunn

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8 years

Can we have Niall as president of our London city state please?

Niall Horan

@NiallOfficial

8 years

Tell them we shouldn't have said that and it was a mistake. Bullshit .

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7 years

On the advertising hoardings around Old Trafford: "Keep girls ahead of the game." But, obviously, don't have a women's professional team.

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4 years

@AITA_reddit Also just noticed your use of the word "lie". You absolute douche.

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2 years

Once again, the emergence of what I'm going to call the "angel on the pitch" narrative. Women don't dive, don't foul, don't swear, and if they get caught out they'll be absolutely hammered for it in a way the men aren't.

FA Spokesperson

@FAspokesperson

2 years

Regulation and Discipline update on @SpursWomen :

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4 years

@AITA_reddit everyone here is TA except OP. If you buy it, you can do what you like with it. You're not kids any more.

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4 years

@AITA_reddit You should...literally have gone to his office to collect him while you were in labour? No. Also this man is weird. And possibly has another family.

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5 years

@redditships clearly the answer is break up with him and save your arteries

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5 years

My beloved and I are hoping Priti Patel might do the daily briefing and talk about "counter-coronavirus offences" @MrMichaelSpicer

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4 years

@AITA_reddit You are one of the worst people who has ever asked anything in this sub-reddit and that is saying something.

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2 years

I'm sorry, this is hilarious #BREMUN

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3 years

Imagine thinking that a European Super League club - the richest clubs on the continent - doesn't fund its women's team because they don't have enough money.

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4 years

@AITA_reddit I don't think you just want a childfree wedding, I think you want a step-son-free marriage.

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7 months

So it's not as easy as telling other clubs to look at what Arsenal are doing and to copy it, because Arsenal were miles ahead of the curve. It hasn't been a quick win. It's been years.

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3 years

Genuine question, do any of these men know who Simone Biles is, what she's achieved and what she has endured during her gymnastics career? Because the fact that she can even still LOOK at a gym is remarkable.

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3 years

There are a lot of men on here this evening who are ACTUALLY telling supreme elite athletes that they understand their mental health (and their sport) better than they do.

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4 years

@AITA_reddit I feel like this could have been avoided if you'd asked first. The fact that you didn't ask makes me think you knew she would say no. And I feel like she would have said no because you do this kind of entitled thing on the reg.

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4 years

@Scientits People REALLY do not understand the theory behind vaccinations. (It reminds me a little bit of the stupid storyline in Friends where Ross THE ACTUAL SCIENTIST doesn't realise that condoms aren't failsafe.)

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3 years

What, like it's hard?

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7 months

And it has! And it's great! But let's not kid ourselves that it's only cos England won the Euros, or cos they have Beth Mead and Leah Williamson. It's because they have persisted with it for literal decades and now they're getting the pay-off.

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4 years

I'm just glad @LisaEvans_17 sorted @VivianneMiedema 's hair out to fit into her bun again tbh

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1 year

It's probably worth remembering that the people keeping women's football running - save for a very few clubs and leagues at the absolute top - are volunteers. The club sec. The media officer. The league committee. All doing it because they believe in it.

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3 years

@leahcwilliamson I liked the people telling Lotte that her name was short for Charlotte so why was she complaining about being called it...

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4 years

@AITA_reddit why do people keep procreating with these ridiculous man-babies?

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4 years

@AITA_reddit You "weren't thrilled" about a couple living together and having a baby? What on earth has it got to do with you?

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2 years

My new book 'Unsuitable For Females' is out today! Available at a book shop or online retailer near you. If you've got a copy, thank you so much, I hope you enjoy it - send me a pic of my little book out in the big wide world!

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2 years

@JudyMurray @DavidLawTennis @GBruinvels It's always really bugged me when male commentators complain about women taking bathroom breaks as well...it's clear they've never considered changing a tampon and/or pad or just checking as a reason for it!

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2 years

@ZMozafarii this was shocking reporting. Very best wishes to you.

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1 year

The fact that a HUGE number of women's football fans don't watch men's football is well established. And it's one of the reasons that any policy that is simply pushing "one club" and men's football structures and behaviours is fundamentally flawed. People like the difference.

Women's Sport Trust

@WomenSportTrust

1 year

The latest @womensporttrust report shows 11.5 million viewers of the 29.9 million people who watched the WWC on TV did not watch the FIFA World Cup in Qatar in 2022 on TV 2/6

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7 years

Just read that Sharapova quote about Serena and was reminded of when Sharapova talked about not wanting too many visible muscles :S

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2 years

"Don't bring politics into sport" when politics and sport can never be separated. Footballers are entitled to use their platforms to voice their opinions, and should not be expected to "shut up and play".

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@SkySportsNews

2 years

FIFA have written to World Cup teams urging them to focus on the tournament and not be part of lecturing on morality and dragging football "into every ideological or political battle that exists".

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3 years

So the prime minister is his wife's fault, and Jimmy Carr is Rachel Riley's fault? Right, got it.

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2 years

We're just...supposed to go to sleep now? Like the last three and a half hours didn't happen?

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4 years

Even Malcolm Tucker never went on Newsnight in the end.

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@bbclaurak

4 years

Dominic Cummings is expected to give a public statement and take questions later himself, as calls for him to quit and explain himself mount

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1 year

From FIFA: "The chairman of the FIFA Disciplinary Committee...in use of the powers granted by article 51 of the FIFA Disciplinary Code (FDC), has decided today to provisionally suspend Mr. Luis Rubiales from all football-related activities at national and international level."

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4 years

@dog_rates My little girl, Spring

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7 years

"It's not POSSIBLE, man." "It IS possible." "Well, obviously I know it's possible." Nick Kyrgios gets to grips with philosophy.

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5 years

This tournament will now be known as Christiane Endler's World Cup.

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4 years

@JimMFelton Let us remember that this man was involved in schools and education policy.

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4 years

VIVIANNE MIEDEMA HAD HER SEASON CANCELLED FOR THIS.

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10 months

The criticism Tom is getting for this is wild. Leaving aside him not writing the headline or the social copy, surely telling the truth about a match and a matchday is important?

Telegraph Women’s Sport

@WomensSport

10 months

Sam Kerr hat-trick lights up empty Stamford Bridge as Chelsea beat Paris FC in Women's Champions League ✍️ @TomJGarry #TelegraphWomensSport

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2 years

This is one of the greatest achievements of my life.

Room Rater

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2 years

Pleasantly stuffed bookwall. Good depth. Lovely natural lighting. Has an owl. 9/10 @carriesparkle

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1 year

The "solution" to this is SELL MARY EARPS' SHIRT. How on earth do you need a conversation with partners to sort this out?

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@Natpirks

1 year

Mary Earps won the Golden Glove yet Nike wouldn’t sell her shirt. Today they’ve issued this further statement

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4 years

@AITA_reddit They're not bothered about disrespect, they're bothered about not getting 400 quid a month from you.

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8 years

It's a Friday night and I'm weepy and FEELING SORRY AND EMPATHETIC FOR THERESA MAY. This is what Brexit Britain has come to.

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3 years

@AITA_online Also I am imagining them both sitting there well pleased with thinking they have set "boundaries" with his family, who are "overstepping", when in fact this couple are just dreadful manipulative people.

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11 months

Good morning. WOMAN UP is out today!

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2 years

Girls have always played football. The authorities may have tried to crush it, the patriarchy may have tried to ignore it, but it's always been there.

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3 years

Clubs are punished for the behaviour of fans, fans are punished for the behaviour of clubs. That is how it works. And trying to set up a breakaway closed league to siphon off all the money deserves consequences.

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4 years

If there's a crowdfunder to pay any legal fees from tonight, do share the link.

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6 years

Hey it's another day when I get to asterisk tweets with *men's

UEFA EURO 2024

@EURO2024

6 years

🇵🇹RECORD! Cristiano Ronaldo becomes Europe's all-time top international scorer with 85 goals 🔥🔥🔥

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4 years

@redditships From the headline I thought he meant "cheating" as in like "plagiarism", ie lack of originality in her writing...

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@carriesparkle

5 years

Strongly in favour of @karenjcarney simply speaking things into existence.

Lionesses

@Lionesses

5 years

Guess who called it. @karenjcarney MBE 👉 @JillScottJS8 MBE

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4 years

New best @VivianneMiedema photo. Me too, Viv. Me too.

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6 years

Ugh. Going to mute the telly. Men are talking about football and their voices just hurt my ears. Too deep, too low pitched. Just not nice to listen to.

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5 years

@AITA_reddit feel confident that her "mental wellbeing" was hugely improved by this interaction.

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5 years

@hansmollman I cannot begin to imagine how bad that house smells.

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9 years

Kristin Hetle speaks THE TRUTH. Either it's men's football and women's football, or it's football. Not football and women's football.

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4 years

@AITA_reddit This man-child is ridiculous and so are his man-child pissbaby friends.

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11 months

Women's football folk! I'm really keen to do everything I can to promote my new book Woman Up: Pitches, Pay and Periods - The Progress and Potential of Women's Football. If you've got a podcast you'd like me to guest on, or a YouTube show, drop me a line.

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5 years

@AITA_reddit She kicked herself out.

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3 years

Note of caution - just because these clubs have scrapped their idiotic money-grabbing selfish idea, this does not mean they care about you, it doesn't mean everything is fine again, and it doesn't mean that they or other clubs won't try something similar again in the future.

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3 years

Actual lol at @jbeattie91 there "I...honestly don't know how @bmeado9 does that" #crot

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6 years

@anne_theriault Depends what part of the country you're in. Tea can be your main evening meal. Or it could be "afternoon tea", like cakes and sandwiches and stuff at about 3pm before a bigger meal at 7/8pm.

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4 years

@AITA_reddit Yes, you're TA for making a fuss about YOUR CHILD HAVING ITS MEAL and putting more pressure on your wife. Shut up immediately.

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1 year

Already exhausted with the Lauren James/David Beckham discourse.

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3 years

@JimMFelton I LOVE that the link IS TO FACEBOOK, that well-known accurate source of information about all things medical, scientific and factual

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