Charlton Athletic have finished 3rd. I believe we will be away for the match.
Kick-off is at 12:30pm. I'll be at a dear friend's wedding that day, so I'll have to miss it. Just as well it wasn't Crystal Palace. Not only is our record against them awful, but the bride & groom of the wedding I'm at are both Palace fans.
Yeah, it's a few days old. We went 12-3-3 over the 18 game season.
For the Save-of-the-Month winning save against Chelsea back in September.
In his press conference ahead the Chelsea defeat, manager Rick Passmoor suggested that the club hierarchy were just leaving the women’s team to get on with things. Seems to me the club have now entirely forgotten about the women’s team.
The most important game in the women’s team’s recent history, the WSL relegation play off away at Charlton Athletic, is in 11 days’ time. It’s the only opportunity the club has left to salvage something from this bin-fire of a season.
So… where are the tickets?
Where is the rallying call?
Where is the email to supporters?
Where is the bus travel to pack out The Valley and cheer on the women’s team to help them maintain their WSL status?
Where is there any acknowledgment whatsoever on the LCFC website that this existential match is even taking place?
Head over to the Charlton website and you can’t miss the fixture. Tickets for Charlton fans have been on sale since shortly after the fixture was confirmed. Season ticket holders were offered two free tickets. Hospitality tickets discounted to £25. Bring drinks to your seats is being trialled.
Can anybody help me to understand Leicester’s head-in-the-sand approach to this fixture? Why is the club not even doing the basics necessary to support the women’s team - like acknowledging the fixture or selling actual tickets?
This begins to feel less a case of “leaving the women’s team to get on with it” and more a case of deliberate sabotage.