Reading Women FC faced Chelsea at Adam’s Park on Wednesday in their first (and indeed antepenultimate!) home game of the WSL1 Spring Series. Unfortunately it didn’t go quite to plan, despite a pretty decent first half. The Royals named an unchanged line up and formation from the team that suffered a 4-2 defeat away to…
The fixtures are coming thick and fast in the FA WSL1 Spring Series. Compared to last season when each match seemed to have its own pre-season given the amount of time between games, this time around there’s barely time to make it home from one game before the next one kicks off! Not that this…
Reading Women FC announced the signings of regular England internationals Jade Moore and Jo Potter along with Kirsty Linnett, all formerly of Notts County on Bank Holiday Monday. Notts County shocked everyone on the eve of the WSL1 Spring Series by announcing that they would be folding due to financial difficulties and therefore not taking part…
Reading FC Women are back on the road tomorrow for their second game in the WSL1 Spring Series, after their very impressive 3-1 victory against Bristol on Saturday. This time they travel every-so-slightly further to take on Liverpool Ladies, up at the Select Security Stadium in Widnes. Last season Reading were not at their best…
Reading Women FC opened the first and last ever WSL1 Spring Season on Saturday, after a pre-season that has seen numerous departures and arrivals at the club, and has felt longer than a 2 week holiday in a caravan in the rain in north Wales. Arrivals over the pre-season were: Rachel Furness (not Gemma, Brian!), Brooke…
After a pre-season that promises to be four times as long as the actual season, Reading Women embark on their WSL1 Spring Series campaign this weekend as they travel to newly-promoted Bristol. As most people will have seen by now, this year in the WSL is a bit of a one-off as it moves to a…
It’s been a little while now since Reading Women FC secured their place in the top flight for the new-look Winter WSL1 season starting towards the later stages of 2017. For those of you that may have forgotten what happened in the 2016 season, Reading finished in 8th place out of 9, with Doncaster Belles ending…
Our Reading Women FC expert James Hopes runs the rule over the Royals new signings ahead of the big competitive kick-off in the FA Women’s Cup and subsequent FA WSL Spring Series. Manager Kelly Chambers was very active in the transfer market over the winter with a number of new players joining the club, as…
Our Reading Women FC expert James Hopes has picked out his ‘three to watch’ as the Royals kick off their competitive season with an FA Women’s Cup Fifth Round tie at Manchester City on Saturday. It’s Reading’s first competitive match of the season on Saturday away to Manchester City in the cup and it’s guaranteed to…
As you’ll have seen on social media and on this very fine website, Reading FC Women have made their first signing of the transfer window by bringing classy Dutch captain Mandy van den Berg to the club. Coincidentally this is the second van den Berg to join the Royals’ family in the past few months…
Considering the WSL1 only consists of 9 teams this year, the fixture compilers have cleverly managed to stretch the season out over a period of time that has felt like 17 years. It has stopped and started more times than rain in a British summertime and had more mid season breaks than the entire collection…
The wait was finally over for the fourth time this season as the Royals were back in action against Chelsea Ladies at the slightly underwhelming Staines Town FC. Top flight football and Staines don’t really go hand in hand, but to their credit they gave out free Carabao to fans tonight, given that both Chelsea…
It feels like years since the last Reading FC Women game. In the time since we last played we’ve managed to secure WSL1 survival as a result of Donny Belles losing a few more matches. The seasons have changed. The clocks have (almost) gone backwards. It’s been so long that I’ve almost had time to…
So far in the Reading FC Women in the Spotlight series we have had the loud, cheeky, confident, messy and competitive Lois Roche, the chilled, friendly, quiet and hard working Lauren Bruton, the dry, thoughtful, polite, competitive and funny Helen Ward and the diligent, ambitious, cheeky, energetic and friendly Harriet Scott telling us a bit about themselves. This…
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