Concerns for Ireland manager Vera Pauw as lack of first-team football for her squad’s goalkeepers continue
Republic of Ireland manager Vera Pauw's chief concern from the weekend will be her goalkeepers' lack of game time. Photograph: Ian MacNicol/Getty ImagesThe main talking point from the English Super League over the weekend was the postponement of half the programme of games due to frozen pitches, highlighting the issue around them being played at smaller stadiums with no undersoil heating, rather than at clubs’ chief home grounds.
The greatest embarrassment for the league came with the Chelsea v Liverpool game which was being shown live by the BBC, the referee deeming the pitch unplayable six minutes in to the fixture, at which point it was abandoned. Megan Campbell, who was in Liverpool’s line-up, was among those critical of the decision to ever start the game when the surface was clearly unplayable. “It is unacceptable for a game at this level to be called off in the manner in which it was,” she said, “for the safety of everyone, teams and fans, it needs to improve”.
For Republic of Ireland manager Vera Pauw, though, the chief concern from the weekend was probably the continuing lack of first-team football that her squad’s goalkeepers are getting, Courtney Brosnan and Grace Moloney once again left on the bench by Everton and Reading, respectively.
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