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Germany turn to Martina Voss-Tecklenburg after sacking Steffi Jones, and Fran Kirby becomes the first winner of the Football Writers’ Association’s Women’s Footballer of the Year, taking more than half a panel vote and a place in a line that began with Stanley Matthews in 1947. She also takes the PFA Players’ Player award, with Lauren Hemp Young Player and Casey Stoney honoured for special achievement. The darker item is Millwall Lionesses, top of WSL 2 and nineteen games unbeaten, disclosing financial discrepancies that could force administration after their sole director resigned, with crowdfunding raising ten thousand pounds against an uncertain future. Elsewhere Japan win the Asian Cup, a Madrid derby draws 22,202, and the game mourns the coach educator Dick Bate.