Lady Florence Dixie: The aristocrat who fought for women’s football
As the Women’s World Cup is held in Australia and New Zealand, many may be unaware of the debt the sport owes to an aristocrat from southern Scotland. Lady Florence Dixie was born in 1855 at Kinmount near Cummertrees in Dumfriesshire. One of twins, she was the youngest of six children of the eighth marquess of Queensberry. […]
Women’s World Cup 2023: ‘Let’s get Alessia Russo doing what she does best’
England need to start scoring some goals soon at this Fifa Women’s World Cup, but the current lack of cutting edge is certainly not Alessia Russo‘s fault. It is more than five and a half hours since the Lionesses found the net in open play, and they had to rely on Georgia Stanway‘s twice-taken penalty to edge past Haiti in […]