• Saints v Sunderland
• Silverlake
• 28/09/2025

I’m never confident when Saints play at Eastleigh’s ground. I don’t think we’ve ever played well there, apart from the FA Cup game against Man United, but we lost that one too. With injuries in the squad, five teenagers were named on the bench. Milly Mott started her first game of the season in place of Megan Collett, who picked up an injury in the Bristol City game. She was fit enough to be named on the bench though. Collett is one of the most important and experienced players Saints have, yet she is only 20.

• St Mary Stadium
• 21/09/25
• Attendance 1,821
• Goals:
  • Saints 0
  • Bristol City 1
    • Lloyd Smith 88'

This was a tough one to take for Saints.

• VBS Community Stadium
• 14/09/2025
• Attendance: 896
• Goals:
  • Crystal Palace 4
    • Larkin 24'
    • Vanhaevermaet 28'
    • Larkin 58’
    • Weerden 60'
  • Saints 4
    • McAlonie 3'
    • Brazil 41'
    • Bourne 50'
    • Collett 64'


With games being shown live on the WSL2 YouTube channel, I did get to watch this, but I have been hampered by a heavy cold this week, so I haven’t felt like doing anything on my laptop. So here are some highlights of the report from the Saints website.

• St Marys
• 06/09/2025
• Attendance: 3,896
• Goals:
  • Saints 4
    • Primus 9'
    • Goddard 29'
    • Bashford 45'+2, 57'
  • Ipswich 0

I felt really disconnected from football at the end of last season. I guess that’s not surprising after disappointing seasons for both the women’s and men’s teams, the pointlessness of the Club World Cup (which I didn’t watch) and FIFA’s pandering to Trump and all the other nonsense that now comes with top-flight football. I haven’t felt any connection to the England men’s team for many years now, and I was losing any sort of connection to men’s football altogether. However, I really enjoyed the Women’s Euros; the whole atmosphere around the women’s game is so much better and more positive. The England team may have made hard work of some of the games, but their determination, togetherness and will to win saw them through. It reminded me of why football has been such a big part of my life for as long as I can remember.