Features – The Offside Rule

Walking back to happiness: How low-impact football is helping tackle social isolation during Covid

September 13, 2021

Crystal Palace and Leyton Orient are dedicated to improving the health and wellbeing of over-50s in their communities post-lockdown through the slow-paced game, writes [...]

Tokyo 2020: Curtain coming down on Olympics spells changing of the guard for women’s international football teams

August 8, 2021

It’s the end of an era for some of the game’s global superstars but the future’s bright, insists Jessy Parker Humphreys As the 2020 Tokyo Olympics comes to an end, a [...]

Tokyo 2020: Olympic glory worth its wait in gold for Canada

August 7, 2021

The champions and runners-up Sweden are hitting the peak of their powers but the USA and Australia need an injection of youth to breathe new life into their bids for major [...]

Tokyo 2020: Team GB learn the hard way with Olympic heartbreak

July 31, 2021

There were mistakes. There was misfortune. But there are also lessons for Team GB from this Olympics, writes Jessy Parker Humphreys. It would be foolish to say that sport was [...]

Tokyo 2020 round-up: More magic from record-breaking Arsenal star Miedema

July 28, 2021

Martin Whiteley recaps the action in the final group games of the Olympic women’s football tournament. Vivianne Miedema is leading the race to become top scorer at the [...]

Tokyo 2020: Riise’s group stage experiments prepare Team GB for quarter-finals

July 28, 2021

The best team to face Australia has emerged from the coach’s effective squad rotation, writes Jessy Parker Humphreys. Team GB may have lost their perfect record at [...]

Tokyo 2020: Goal hero White has help from friends in Team GB’s opening win

July 22, 2021

While the Man City striker will take the plaudits for her deadly double, Scottish additions Little and Weir shone along with Bronze against lowly Chile to show why Great [...]

Tokyo 2020: Five Euro stars to watch out for at the Olympics

July 19, 2021

Ahead of the first group match on Wednesday, Martin Whiteley looks at five players set to strive at this year’s Olympics. Brazil (Group F) Ludmila Blessed with [...]

Tokyo 2020 preview: Olympic competition too close to call

July 19, 2021

With limited fixtures over the past 18 months and most teams’ form an unknown quantity, the Olympic women’s football tournament is wide open and all medals are up for [...]

Why did women’s football in East Anglia stand still for 30 years?

April 4, 2021

A spell of glory in the 1980s, then decades of obscurity. Ali Rampling tells the story of East Anglian women’s football, and the hopes for its future… Ipswich Town were [...]