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Katie Whyatt

Bradford, Leeds

Football Writer at The Athletic UK

Part-time football writer (women’s) @theathleticfc & ghostwriter for Beth Mead's book. DMs open or email kwhyatt (at) theathletic (.com). Views mine

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  • How Bradford City helped me feel joy again

    3 weeks ago | bvmsports.com | Katie Whyatt

    May 17, 2025 12:11 am EDT At every Bradford City game this season, I have felt lucky. What happened on the pitch, though compelling - a record run of home wins, a title challenge, automatic promotion to League One via a 96th-minute goal in the final game of the season - has felt secondary to the fact I have been able to feel it. Genuinely feel it. The routine cup games, the freak red cards, week after week, I was so grateful to feel it. This matters again. I'm so happy.

  • How Bradford City helped me feel joy again

    3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Katie Whyatt

    At every Bradford City game this season, I have felt lucky. What happened on the pitch, though compelling - a record run of home wins, a title challenge, automatic promotion to League One via a 96th-minute goal in the final game of the season - has felt secondary to the fact I have been able to feel it. Genuinely feel it. The routine cup games, the freak red cards, week after week, I was so grateful to feel it. This matters again. I'm so happy. I have struggled with my mental health since my teens.

  • English FA's ban on transgender women contrasts history of inclusion in women's football: Opinion

    1 month ago | nytimes.com | Katie Whyatt

    The Football Association's change to its transgender policy, stating that transgender women and girls will no longer be allowed to play affiliated women's and girls' football in England and Scotland next season, feels both surprising and expected. Trans rights groups anticipated that the Supreme Court's ruling last month would have implications for access to single-sex spaces.

  • English FA’s ban on transgender women contrasts with history of inclusion in women’s football

    1 month ago | sports.yahoo.com | Katie Whyatt

    The Football Association’s change to its transgender policy, stating that transgender women and girls will no longer be allowed to play affiliated women’s and girls’ football in England and Scotland next season, feels both surprising and expected. Trans rights groups anticipated that the Supreme Court’s ruling last month would have implications for access to single-sex spaces.

  • Jacqui Oatley made Match of the Day history but the experience was 'isolating'

    1 month ago | nytimes.com | Katie Whyatt

    Eighteen years have passed since Jacqui Oatley became the first woman to commentate on Match of the Day, the BBC's flagship football highlights programme. Enough time, she points out, for someone not even born back then to have learned to drive.

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Katie Whyatt
Katie Whyatt @KatieWhyatt
17 May 25

For #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek , I wrote a very personal piece about depression, anxiety, loneliness and how the community I’ve found following #bcafc this year, regardless of the results, has helped football become a place of healing https://t.co/WDWmLVYYAI

Katie Whyatt
Katie Whyatt @KatieWhyatt
14 May 25

RT @StanchionBooks: 𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐂𝐊 | TOTALLY FOOTBALL BOOK by @TheTotallyShow (ed. by @NickMiller79) A series of essays looking at the state of t…

Katie Whyatt
Katie Whyatt @KatieWhyatt
13 May 25

RT @megan_feringa: Blackburn Rovers given until Monday to confirm financing women’s team in WSL2. No financing given = women’s team expelle…