Sunderland Ladies given new hope in bid to return from football’s margins

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The proposed takeover of Sunderland and the support this could bring Melanie Reay’s women’s side means the mood on Wearside is unusually buoyant

On a sweltering July night in the middle of a French heatwave six graduates of Sunderland Ladies started England’s narrow Women’s World Cup semi-final defeat by the United States. The sight of Steph Houghton, Lucy Bronze, Jill Scott et al assuming centre-stage represented a bitter-sweet sight for many on Wearside where the club that has played such an integral part in the recently burgeoning growth of the women’s game seemed to have all but fallen off the edge of the footballing world.

 

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