Boro Time: Middlesbrough Ladies FC preview (Something Different with Sarah Manning)

A club feature on Middlesbrough Ladies, who will play the coming season in the newly formed FA Women’s Premier League after finishing sixth in the Northern Combination, under new manager Lindsey Stephenson, an established coach and long-serving Middlesbrough player. Stephenson welcomes an experienced team and a squad increased by successful trials. Dani Scarr highlights the importance of local awareness, describing how the club built its profile through Facebook and Twitter to become the 67th English women’s club past a thousand followers, and how launching its own website helped after being lost on the main club site. She lists sponsors including Middlesbrough goalkeeper Jason Steele, who sponsored goalkeeper Becky Lillystone, comedian Patrick Monahan and former doubles world number one Sarah Borwell. A sidebar profiles Sarah Manning’s enthusiasm for playing.