Katie Whyatt
@KatieWhyatt
Part-time football writer (women’s) @theathleticfc & ghostwriter for Beth Mead's book. DMs open or email kwhyatt (at) theathletic (.com). Views mine
Today is my first day - gulp! - as Women's Football Correspondent for @TheAthleticUK. Subscribe today for 40% off using my special promo: theathletic.com/welcomewhyatt Why have I joined and how did I get here? theathletic.com/2118876/?sourc…
For all the comments you hear about the quality of goalkeeping in the women’s game…
“Cata Coll has had nothing to do for months” - Rachel Brown-Finnis, 2025
Think lots of people misunderstanding that a) NHS mental health services overloaded and b) a number of people on those waiting lists would benefit from community, friendship and activity more than therapy or antidepressants. Building communities therefore will take strain off NHS
The UK’s NHS is trialing prescribing Live Football tickets as a treatment for depression. The landmark scheme is taking place across 12 GP surgeries in Gloucestershire.
ITV’s coverage of England v Italy on Tuesday night was watched by a peak of 10.2 million across all devices, giving ITV its biggest peak audience of 2025 across ITV1 and ITVX. England’s victory on Tuesday night is also ITVX’s biggest day this year with 17.2m streams
Lots of aggregator accounts baiting around the quality of women’s football / men making generalisations. Not every women’s football match has to be a showcase for the overall quality of the whole sport. Players make mistakes! Penalties get missed! Happens in the men’s game too!
If I had a pound for every time we hadn’t immediately known the scorer of a hugely consequential 90+6 winning goal in the last three months I’d have £2. Not a lot but weird that it’s happened twice
Score less than a minute into your England debut and then deliver the most important two goals of the Euros at your first major tournament. No one you’d rather the only ball that got past the Italy defence to fall to in her form. Some tournament from Michelle Agyemang
Why does football often look to Black players to solve racism through their emotional pain and labour? And when they have no control over the structures enabling racism? What powers do players have v social media companies? nytimes.com/athletic/65064…
Jess Carter's statement about the racist abuse she has received at Euro 2025 feels familiar. Her words show the responsibility to stop the abuse often falls to the players. @KatieWhyatt on why it shouldn't have to be that way and who can enact change. bit.ly/44XZ99I
The issue of girls and boys playing football together in junior teams has long been a thorny topic in the UK. For years, the FA imposed an upper-age limit, at which point girls could not play against boys. This was a dramatically different approach to many other European…
All the Lionesses played football with boys at some point In contrast to most of Europe, mixed football has always been a political issue in England - but now ideas around best practice are changing Special report on its history & where we are now nytimes.com/athletic/65012…
If your own defenders make you pull off that kind of save from a defensive header who needs opposition strikers—
Feel like I do one of these every tournament. Football, pain and uh, Arthur Schopenhauer wosodispatches.wordpress.com/2025/07/18/foo…
Your mum checking her receipt at the supermarket to make sure they haven’t done her out of any deals
Blackstenius winning goal would fit with her Arsenal career but let’s not go there right now
That is the first time ever that a team has come from two goals down in the knockout stages of a UEFA Women's Euro since the competition began in 1984 #SWEENG #WEuro2025