
Imagine Watford or West Ham in the Premier League, and QPR and Nottingham Forest in the Championship, being told they were no longer wanted in their respective divisions despite having achieved safety in relative comfort.
Couldn’t happen, you’re thinking. Now consider the fate of the Sunderland Ladies football team. In wretched circumstances, victims of penny-pinching cuts wielded at Ellis Short’s bidding by our equally unmissed CEO, Martin Bain, they finished seventh top in the Women’s Super League , the highest English division in the female game.
And their reward for such sterling efforts: booted out by the FA. And not even allowed to compete in the WSL second tier, or Championship.
This FA decision boils my blood & I'm struggling to understand the logic of any explanation spouted. Puts women's football in the NE to the back of the queue & is a slap in the face for everyone in Sunderland. I know your "to do" list is huge @stewartdonald3 but please help!
— Sue (@sueholl1) May 29, 2018