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The Cutback is your essential platform for quality women's football content. We focus on the game, with analysis, data-driven pieces and expert opinion.
I'm a football journalist and founder of The Cutback, the first women's football media platform dedicated to in-depth analysis.
Co-founder of How's Your Touch (RIP). Illustrator, designer, lover of a proper 4-4-2, sometimes writer. Purveyor of the SWPL agenda. Used to want to be Rory Delap.
Devotee of the religion of football | Freelance journalist & analyst featured on Al Jazeera, Forbes.com, FourFourTwo, Analytics FC, FotMob, World Soccer, The Blizzard, SCOUTED, The Transfer Flow, FootballTransfers, Between The Posts, Gløry & more
Occassionally writes about Manchester City Women and the WSL
Manchester United Women's team writer. I also own the platform AllForUnitedWFC which is a dedicated brand to Man United Women's team.
Theo Lloyd-Hughes is a New Orleans-based football [soccer] journalist and podcaster.
Abigail Segel is an American freelance journalist based in Canada. She is a contributing writer at Defector Media, and an editor for The IX Soccer and the Equalizer. Her work has been published in the Guardian and the Montreal Gazette.
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