Doncaster Belles - what might have been.

[Wiltshire Exile]

Very well worth a read:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/65162153

[Barmby Rover]

I have no time for the Women's game, just because of what they did to Belles. A league riddled with more corruption than the Premier League. The FA should be ashamed of itself.

[silent majority]

A great article!

[Chris Black come back]

Obviously a hugely corrupt decision on every level, but the same way ‘MK Dons’ have been accepted as a league club, it all gets forgotten about fairly soon. If I owned Rovers I would ensure we boycotted any game against them and just accepted the point deduction and fine. Some things are worth paying a price for.

[DonnyBazR0ver]

Yes, they got what they wanted with the WSL becoming a mirror of the mens Premier League and virtually franchised to keep it that way.

[VivaRovers]

Shame the BBC didn't give it as much coverage at the time as they have done 10 years on

[Bollinger]

Shame the BBC didn't give it as much coverage at the time as they have done 10 years on

I thought exactly the same. At the time this was kicking off I wrote to all of the so-called leading sport journalists at the BBC asking why they weren’t covering the issue. I never received a single acknowledgement. Good article but it’s easy for them to be enraged ten years after the event.