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42,723 PEOPLE WATCHED LAST NIGHT AT THE SUNDERLAND STADIUM OF LIGHT AS THE RED ROSES RAN RIOT AGAINST THE U.S.A. IN THE OPENER OF THE LADIES RUGBY WORLD CUP 2025! RUGBY WORLD CUP OPENER : RED ROSES VS U.S.A. – 22/08/2025 – (ENGLAND RUGBY) RUGBY WORLD CUP OPENER : RED ROSES VS U.S.A. – 22/08/2025 – (BBC) ENGLAND HEAD COACH JOHN MITCHELL AND CAPTAIN ZOE ALDCROFT GIVE THEIR REACTION TO THE TEAM’S 69 – 7 WIN OVER U.S.A IN FRONT OF A RECORD CROWD AT SUNDERLAND’S STADIUM OF LIGHT.  THE RED ROSES ARE RANKED NUMBER ONE IN THE WORLD, AND WENT AHEAD THROUGH SADIA KABEYA AND HANNAH BOTTERMAN, BEFORE ERICA JARRELL-SEARCY RESPONDED FOR THE U.S.A.

IF IT WAS TREATS YOU WERE LOOKING FOR IN THE FORM OF INDIVIDUAL FOOTBALLING SKILLS, THEN THE LIONESSES OFFERED A SMORGASBORD IN THEIR MATCH AGAINST JAMAICA ON 29/06/2025! FIRSTLY ELLA TOONE SCORED A CRACKER AT 10 MINS., (WHICH WAS TO BE THE FIRST GOAL OF A BRILLIANT BRACE, NETTING THE SECOND AT THE END OF THE FIRST-HALF IN STOPPAGE TIME AT 45 +4 MINS.), THEN IT WAS LUCY BRONZE’S TURN TO SCORE A SPECTACULAR GOAL AT 32 MINS., WHICH WAS FOLLOWED BY A REGULAR ‘GOALATHON’. FROM THE LIONESSES, WHICH LEFT LITTLE TIME FOR THE JAMAICAN LADIES TO COME UP FOR AIR! GEORGIA STANWAY FOLLOWED LUCY BRONZE’S GOAL WITH A BEAUT AT 59 MINS., AND ON THEY CAME, WITH ALESSIA RUSSO SCORING ANOTHER CLASS GOAL AT 71 MINS., AND AGGIE BEAVER-JONES’ SPECTACULAR GOAL AT 85 MINS., AND THEN ...

IT IS WELL INTO THE UEFA WOMEN’S EUROS COMPETITION NOW, AND IT SEEMS THAT THE RIGOROUS SCHEDULE CAN TAKE IT’S TOLL ON EVEN THE HARDIEST OF TEAMS – (i.e. EAT, TRAIN, PLAY – REPEAT) AND DARE I SAY, IT CERTAINLY SEEMED TO BE THE CASE IN THE SPAIN VS SWITZERLAND MATCH LAST NIGHT! SPAIN HAD 2 UNSUCCESSFUL PENALTIES, WITH THE 1ST FROM MARIONA CALDENTEY, WHICH WENT WIDE, AND THEN, ALSO FROM ALEXIA PUTELLAS, FOR WHICH SWITZERLAND’S GOALY LIVIA PENG WAS READY-AND-A-WAITING! SPAIN DID PUT ON A DOMINANT PERFORMANCE HOWEVER, WITH 658 PASSES, WITH AN 88% PASS ACCURACY AND 73% POSSESSION. BUT SWITZERLAND HELD THEIR OWN, PUTTING UP A BOLD DEFENCE AGAINST THE SPANISH LADIES, MAKING 259 PASSES, WITH A 70% PASS ACCURACY, AND 4 SHOTS, WHICH WERE, ALAS FOR THEM, NOT TO BE! BUT TH...

ICELAND MADE 308 PASSES, WITH A 68% PASS ACCURACY, AND HAD 13 SHOTS WITH 4 ON TARGET, BUT WITH AN OVERLY-PHYSICAL HILDUR ANTONSDOTTIR FIRSTLY RECEIVING A YELLOW FOR ARGEY-BARGEY AND THEN A RED FOR A CLUMSY TACKLE, IT LEFT ICELAND DOWN TO 10 LADIES! FINLAND MADE 405 PASSES, WITH A 78% PASS ACCURACY, (HAD 56% POSSESSION) AND 16 SHOTS, WITH 4 ON TARGET, INCLUDING A STUNNER FROM KATARINA KOSOLA JUST 12 MINS. AFTER ANTONSDOTTIR’S RED AT 70 MINS., MEANING THAT FINLAND WON THE MATCH 1 – 0. THE FINLAND HEAD COACH MARKO SALORANTA SAID AFTERWARDS “IT’S BEEN 16 YEARS SINCE FINLAND LAST WON AT A MAJOR TOURNAMENT, WHEN THE WOMEN’S EURO WAS PLAYED IN FINLAND IN 2009. SINCE THEN, WE’VE HAD NO VICTORIES AT THE 2013 AND 2022 TOURNAMENTS. I’M VERY SATISFIED TO START...

WIMBLEDON DAY 1 HIGHLIGHTS – 30/06/2025 CHECK OUT THIS SUPERB MATCH FROM THE FIRST ROUND OF WIMBLEDON 2025 ON NO 1 COURT BETWEEN 22 YEAR OLD EMMA RADACANU AND 17 YEAR OLD MIMI XU! AND ANOTHER FANTASTIC MATCH BETWEEN KATIE BOULTER AND PAULA BADOSA

WHAT A MAGNIFICENT, AND WELL-ORGANISED PERFORMANCE FROM THE YOUNG LIONS LAST NIGHT IN THEIR MATCH AGAINST GERMANY! FIRSTLY, HARVEY ELLIOTT NETTED THE MOST SUPERB GOAL IN UNDER 5 MINUTES, WHICH SENT A WAVE OF EXCITEMENT AROUND THE TEHELNE POLE STADIUM TO ALL THE ENGLAND FANS, AND THOSE WATCHING AT HOME, WITH ALL REALISING THAT THIS WAS TO BE YET ANOTHER CLASS ACT FROM THE YOUNG LIONS! AND THEN, IT WAS OVER TO OMARI HUTCHINSON TO SCORE AT 24 MINS., AFTER A CHEEKY PASS FROM JAMES MCATEE (WHERE THEY LOOKED ALMOST ‘IN SYNC’) – CUE HIS SUPERB ACROBATIC CELEBRATION OF A CARTWHEEL AND BACKFLIP, WHICH FANS ADORED! THIS NOW MEANT THAT ENGLAND HAD SCORED 2 GOALS IN UNDER 25 MINS! AND THEN, JUST BEFORE HALF-TIME, (IN STOPPAGE TIME AT 45 +1 MINS.,) GERMANY’S NELSON WIEPER MANAGE...