Brighton & Hove Albion 1-3 Tottenham Hotspur: Grace Clinton stunner helps Spurs win
Grace Clinton scored a stunning goal as Tottenham Hotspur came from behind to win at Brighton and Hove Albion in the Women’s Super League. The hosts had taken the lead early in the first half through Elisabeth Terland’s header. However, Tottenham equalised just before the break when Martha Thomas reacted quickly to drive home a […]
Brighton & Hove Albion 1-0 West Ham United: Aileen Whelan gives Brighton win
Brighton secured back-to-back Women’s Super League wins for the first time with a hard-fought victory over West Ham United. After West Ham keeper Mackenzie Arnold tipped Nora Heroum’s effort over, Aileen Whelan reacted first inside the box for the game’s only goal. Ellie Brazil had a great chance to make the points secure but was […]
England managers Sarina Wiegman and Gareth Southgate pay tribute to ‘inspirational’ Queen
England women won the country’s first major tournament since the 1966 men’s World Cup in July, and Wiegman said: “This summer she [the Queen] took the time to write to me and my players congratulating us for our success. “In that letter she called us an ‘inspiration for girls and women’. It is you, your […]
Sisterhood FC: Yasmin Abdullahi talks about the formation of a Muslim women’s football team
Some of the girls have said that Sisterhood FC is just more than a football team, it’s a family. If one of them needs support they can always message the team’s WhatsApp group and there’s 10 people who’ll message them back to offer advice. People message kind words or if someone is celebrating a birthday […]
The forgotten woman who helped build British Islam
Yahya Birt Almost no pictures exist of Fatima Cates, either before or after her conversion When Francess Elizabeth Murray was born in 1865 into a strict Christian household in Liverpool, few would have imagined her life would see her help found the UK’s first recorded mosque and become Fatima Cates, the first known woman to […]
England Women suffer record Twenty20 loss to Australia
England were bowled out for only 96 as they lost to Australia in the women’s Twenty20 tri-series in Mumbai. England chased 199 and 150 in winning their first two matches, only to slip to their joint-second-lowest total in T20 cricket in Wednesday’s defeat. Australia fell to 12-2, but Meg Lanning hit five fours in one […]
How the country became the world’s ‘economic miracle’
Getty Images It took China less than 70 years to emerge from isolation and become one of the world’s greatest economic powers. As the country celebrates the anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, we look back on how its transformation spread unprecedented wealth – and deepened inequality – across the Asian […]
‘I was kidnapped in London and trafficked for sex’
BBC Anna came to London from Romania intending to study, but first she needed to earn some money. She took temporary jobs – waitressing, cleaning, maths tutoring. Then one day in March 2011 she was snatched off the street, flown to Ireland and put through nine months of hell. Anna was nearly home. There was […]
Why the Herero people’s special dress is worn with pride in Namibia
Namibia was a German colony for just over a century and in the early 1900s the Herero and the Nama people rose up against the Germans with tragic consequences. Some 65,000 members of the Herero tribe were killed by German troops. Every year the Herero people commemorate those that died in battle with a special […]
Women’s Super League: Brighton & Hove Albion Women 0-4 Arsenal Women
For the outstanding Miedema, her brilliantly-taken goal was her 22nd of the league campaign and she nearly added to her tally in second-half stoppage time, but headed on to the bar. The Gunners – English women’s football’s most decorated club despite their seven-year wait for the title – become champions of England for the 15th […]