A very subjective look into AWFC

Time has absolutely flown by… I actually cannot believe that I’m about to type that today marks my blog #365 and give and take a couple of days here and there I have been able to keep my promise and I have posted EVERY SINGLE DAY for a year.

The first thing I have to say is that I’m very grateful to you all for reading, commenting and sharing it on twitter and elsewhere. It really means a lot and I have such a wonderful experience every single day seeing where people are reading from and how you’re able to find this blog from countries all over the world, no rhyme or reason it seems. Incredibly touching and I’m moved.

Overall, I created this space to focus on the positive side of things. To build up players, to be funny, to try to talk about serious topics related to women’s rights, football, sexism and all kinds of things. I haven’t been successful always both in the way in which I’ve expressed certain things and I have also gone pretty hard on a few players and the manager recently. And, even if I were to qualify my criticism as me being “realistic” I realize that I’m being too harsh and is not positive, which its the opposite reason as to why I started the blog in the place, so I’m gonna try my best to focus on the positives, without lying to myself or misleading you just because I know people from the club read this.

One thing I’ve learned for sure is that YOU NEVER KNOW WHO IS READING, so I need to keep myself accountable and open, and serious and respectful. So if you’re thinking about being part of the content landscape for AWFC or women’s football, regardless of the club, know that you will have ears and eyes that you might’ve never imagined. And I’m not saying that you should censor yourself or anything like that, just to make sure you’re doing your part to be a person that adds value and positivity and love and respect above just expressing an opinion to get clicks and likes.

There have been times when I’ve been very bummed that nobody read this. I felt I needed lots of readers and that not having them meant that I wasn’t a good writer (which I still think, and I’m just doing this for fun), but I’ve learned I need to treat this like art. Not because I think its artistic but because it doesn’t matter how many people it reaches as long as ONE person is impacted in some way.

Last thing I’ll mention, tooting my own horn loud and proud, is that I’m very proud of myself for not only making the commitment but following through and this has also kickstarted my commitment and pro active attitude towards a few things that I cannot wait to tell you all about.

I want to thank the women that inspire aka the entire AWFC past and present, and future, but also Sophie Nicolaou, Shebahn Aherne, Caroline Barker, Suzy Wrack, Laura Woods, Lianne Sanderson, and more without whom I would not even want to try to do this.

Love you all and thank you so much.

Here’s to 365 more.