Céad míle fáilte Stephanie Roche – giving SundIreland a new twist

Stephanie Roche: courtesy SAFC
Stephanie Roche: courtesy SAFC

Stephanie Roche must have been chuckling into her Guinness – sorry, sports energy drink – as she favourited my tweet about the article my daughter Nathalie Randall wrote on her team, Old Actonians, gaining promotion to the Women’s Premier League. [Ha’way, Lass, give us a RT now and then, too – Ed].

If her spell with Houston led to nothing, I suggested, maybe Stephanie – famous for the wonder goal that won her second place to James Rodriguez in last year’s Fifa Puskas award – should consider joining Nathalie’s club.

Since her move to Sunderland Ladies was announced next day, she already knew she was heading to the women’s part of the team supported by Nathalie’s dad.

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Liverpool 1-2 Sunderland: why can’t our men be more like our women?

The 2014 Sunderland Ladies squad
The 2014 Sunderland Ladies squad

With thanks to the Sunderland Ladies official site


The question is posed
the other way round by Professor Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady. “Women are irrational, that’s all there is to that,” he sings. “Their heads are full of cotton, hay, and rags! They’re nothing but exasperating, irritating, vacillating, calculating, agitating. Maddening and infuriating hags! Why can’t a woman be more like a man?”

But Henry wasn’t to know how bad our men would be, and how good the Lasses are.

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