Katie Whyatt

Mar 21, 2025 | sports.yahoo.com | Katie Whyatt

Within weeks, two of the world’s biggest women’s teams launched commercial campaigns around a subject women are conditioned to stay silent about: periods. First came Arsenal’s partnership with laundry detergent brand Persil: “Every Stain Should Be Part of the Game”. The advertisement starring Kim Little, Beth Mead, Leah Williamson and Katie McCabe is about removing the stigma around blood stains, saying it’s no more shameful than mud, grass or sweat stains.

Mar 21, 2025 | nytimes.com | Katie Whyatt

By Katie WhyattFollow Katie on Twitter Katie Whyatt is a UK-based women's football correspondent for The Athletic. She was previously the women's football reporter for The Daily Telegraph, where she was the first full-time women's football reporter on a national paper. @KatieWhyatt

Mar 4, 2025 | sports.yahoo.com | Katie Whyatt

The message arrived on LinkedIn: come to Australia to play for Kingborough Lions United. Tilly Wills, now 24, had been playing football in the United States on a scholarship but a torn anterior cruciate ligament had limited her game time. She had mused about joining clubs in England but nothing felt right: it was tough, mentally, to countenance making a comeback with players who had known her before her injury.

Mar 4, 2025 | nytimes.com | Katie Whyatt

Tilly Wills, now 24, had been playing football in the United States on a scholarship but a torn anterior cruciate ligament had limited her game time. She had mused about joining clubs in England but nothing felt right: it was tough, mentally, to countenance making a comeback with players who had known her before her injury. "I was looking for that breakthrough because I'd been out nearly three years with back-to-back surgeries," she tells The Athletic.

Feb 16, 2025 | ca.sports.yahoo.com | Katie Whyatt

It happened for the first time at a children’s football tournament. Wendy Topham watched as her daughter Flo scored a hat-trick in the final. Abruptly, a mother on the other touchline marched across the pitch and demanded the referee stop the game. Pointing at Flo, she shouted: “It’s not fair! They’ve got a boy in the team!”“It was really awful,” recounts Wendy. “Flo had never really experienced anything like before.