The scandal of seventh-top Sunderland Ladies’ exclusion from the Women’s Super League

Jake says “Ha’way The Lasses”!

It is no secret that Monsieur Salut feels a monstrous miscarriage of natural justice has occurred with the double demotion of Sunderland AFC Ladies who,amid the mess of the parent club, admirably finished last season seventh in the highest tier of women’s football in England, only to be consigned to the lower league.

My analogy? Watford or West Ham, after comparable Premier League seasons, informed they would be in League One from next month. Questions have been put to the FA (earlier ones were answered here) and any response will be reproduced, fairly, in due course.

Here, Ian Todd MBE, a veteran of Sunderland support (men and women) and of the Football Supporters’ Federation and founder of the London and SE branch of the SAFC Supporters’ Association, explains the background to a decision that frankly seems cruel and undeserved …

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Ha’way the Lasses: outclaw Millwall Lionesses to wring the Doncaster Belles

Photo courtesy of the Sunderland Women's Football Club*
Photo courtesy of the Sunderland Women’s Football Club*

It is possible that no win at all will be needed for Sunderland Ladies in their final game to complete a sensational promotion at the first attempt and join the elite of the Women’s Super League top flight.

Unfortunately, that would be the case only if the one team able to overtake them, Doncaster Rovers Belles, lost. And they are at London Bees, hived off from the rest of the swarm at the very bottom of WSL2.

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