With Brighton riding the crest of a wave of a brilliant campaign ending with the fantastic award of promotion to the WSL, i think its time for a reminder on how they got there and if it wasn’t for a wonderful town in East Sussex called Lewes this success would never have happened.
2 years ago a number of people from Lewes FC decided to take the FA on head on about the unjust non promotion to the WSL, they got Lawyers involved and backing from a number of WPL not all of them but some of them and decided to challenge to FA, after a battle with them Lewes FC won, and the route to the WSL was born.
I kind of think it goes unnoticed just what this challenge meant to women football it gave hope of teams from the county leagues being able to reach the dizzy highs of the WSL. The standard of the WPL has also greatly improved thanks to this success and it will only get better with time.
I personally still believe that the structure would work better the WPL moving to a summer program instead of the current winter program and the rule on loan WSL players in the WPL should be a bit more accommodating than the 1 current player allowed to play, you often find the WSL snapping up all the good players and yet not many getting the game time they need to develop there game.
So when your fighting for WSL hopes next reason think to your self if it wasn’t for a small Sussex club we wouldn’t have dream available to us so thank Jacquie and co
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