It’s incredibly frustrating when you tell people you play football and they respond with ‘why?’ or a series of other questions. Women playing football feels like a foreign concept to many – it must be, given the things I get asked quite regularly as of late. These questions range from, “but your boyfriend plays, right?”… Continue reading This is What a Footballer Looks Like
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Football Clubs as Coops
The way football clubs are funded is broken. From the Premier League all the way down to grassroots clubs. Broken. And financially unsustainable. It’s not aspirational to have multi- millionaire’s pumping money into clubs, making players salaries extortionate amounts. What example does it set to young footballers? Be talented. Make £250,000 per week. Grassroots clubs… Continue reading Football Clubs as Coops
Laces New Look
After much anticipation, I’m so excited to share Hackney Laces Community Club’s new logo. This is how it will look on various colours of kit. BIG love and thanks to Lucy Groom and Naresh Ramchandani at Pentagram for creating this. Stay tuned, there’s loads more to come!