Welcome to Women's Football Chronicles

A new home for dedicated writing on women's football around the world.

For several months now I’ve thought long and hard about this. I always wanted somewhere where I could push the boundaries, take women’s football writing places it’s never been before, and those thoughts took me to this place - Substack, and Women’s Football Chronicles.

Those who know me know I’ve covered women’s football for a long time, over 10 years now my first ever involvement. I have covered major tournaments in the Netherlands, France and here in England as the Lionesses won Euro 2022 at Wembley last summer.

I’ve had the fortune to travel to some incredible places, meet incredible people and enjoy incredible experiences, yet still always felt somewhat unfulfilled by what I could write, what I could offer an audience.

It’s been genuinely interesting watching the women’s football audience not just grow over time, but adapt, to an audience that now demands opinion, analysis, reaction - honesty. My aim here is to do just that, to use my voice to push things further.

I also want to go further than ever before when it comes to delving into those behind the sport, those that grow it, those that are now idols for many around the world. It’s very little secret my niche over the years has been big interviews, big features and big profiles, and that won’t change, and now I have complete control over when to write, what to write and how to write it.

The one thing I’ve learned about Substack is it will build a community, one I want to engage with it, grow and offer everything I can to. Use my knowledge, experience and contacts to offer unique content in the women’s game. My list of colleagues has grown and grown over the years, and they are excellent, so what I do has to be different, it has to be worth paying for.

This website is not about my own personal gain, it’s about giving an audience something new, and to do that it needs support so we can take it around the world, take you on a journey to new places, new clubs, new players and new stories. I have to prove first and foremost it’s worth coming on that journey, and if you do, I genuinely hope I can repay you by creating a dedicated home every single day for women’s football.

There will be some semblance of structure in a normal week, with quick reaction pieces and a news round-up from all around the world on a Monday, big interviews on Tuesdays and Thursdays, a unique feature on a Wednesday, before ending the week with a weekly newsletter where I will answer your questions every week.

Of course, this is sport, and it’s women’s football. Almost every day there will be big stories to react to, to offer opinion and analysis on, as well as big games. In just a week that structure will be put to the test when the international break hits and WFC brings you content from the Arnold Clark Cup - all six games - as well as big features, profiles and interviews with those who will be involved, as well as coverage of the FIFA World Cup play-offs.

Essentially, I have created this website because I feel women’s football writing can go further, to tell stories that are yet to be told, in places audiences are yet familiar with. It’s both daunting and exciting in equal measure, but first and foremost it’s a challenge and one I’m ready to embrace.