It’s #SK67, But Is It Summer Yet?! (Editor’s Letter)

Jen O’Neill thanks everyone who made a season played through a pandemic possible, and Chelsea for the excitement of an English club in a Champions League final, even if Barcelona were outstanding. She notes wryly that what was planned as the cup final issue will now probably be the Christmas edition, a novel way to mark the Women’s FA Cup’s fiftieth year. Leagues and excellence programmes were curtailed again, but football is back in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, and English clubs able to progress up the pyramid have been allowed to apply. She says three times that the magazine goes to print before the news lands: the cup draw, the promotion decisions and Hege Riise’s Olympic squad. Euro 2022 ticket pre-sale and the final draw are the dates to put in the diary.