Tom Garry

Northwich

Women's Football Writer at The Guardian

Women's football writer for @guardian_sport Previously at the Telegraph/BBC Sport. Proud husband. Rapidly-deteriorating tennis player. Tired & weary Bluenose.

Articles

Mainstream TV audiences for Women’s Super League dropped 35% last season

1 day ago | msn.com | Tom Garry

Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.
Mainstream TV audiences for Women’s Super League dropped 35% last season

1 day ago | msn.com | Tom Garry

Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.
Mainstream TV audiences for Women’s Super League dropped 35% last season

1 day ago | theguardian.com | Tom Garry

Average broadcast audiences for the Women’s Super League have dropped by 35% year on year, a new report by the Women’s Sport Trust has found, but there have been vast increases in engagement for women’s sports across social media platforms. In rugby union, average audiences per game for the Women’s Premiership were up 86% on TNT Sports last season, while England’s Red Roses saw 75% more TikTok views than England’s men’s rugby union side between January and April 2025.
Taylor Hinds to leave Liverpool Women after five years and join Arsenal

2 days ago | theguardian.com | Tom Garry

Arsenal are to sign the Liverpool vice-captain Taylor Hinds on a free transfer when her contract expires at the end of June, with the 26-year-old having decided to join the European champions. The left-back played for Arsenal as a youngster before joining Everton in 2018 and then moving across Merseyside two years later. She has spent the past five years with Liverpool, helping them finish as high as fourth in the Women’s Super League in 2024.
English coaching duo’s unlikely route to NWSL glory

6 days ago | msn.com | Tom Garry

Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.
English coaching duo take unlikely route on way to NWSL title glory

6 days ago | theguardian.com | Tom Garry

To followers of women’s football in the United States, they are the English coaching duo who have delivered unprecedented success to a previously trophyless club; to English football fans with particularly sharp memories, they are the former Middlesbrough and Derby youngsters who left to play in the MLS. To each other, Seb Hines and Giles Barnes are just old mates, stretching back to their days sharing a room together on England youth international camps. “It brings an unwavering trust.
London City land Van de Donk, Kitagawa heading to Everton

1 week ago | msn.com | Tom Garry

Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.
London City Lionesses make statement signing of Daniëlle van de Donk

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Tom Garry

London City Lionesses have made a statement of intent following promotion to the Women’s Super League by completing the signing of Netherlands midfielder Daniëlle van de Donk. The independently-run club, who will play in the WSL for the first time next season after winning the Women’s Championship title in May, have acquired the 33-year-old on a free transfer from record eight-time European champions Lyon, recently renamed as OL Lyonnes, following the conclusion of her contract.
Hannah Hampton aims to live up to Mary Earps’s legacy as England No 1

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Tom Garry

Hannah Hampton has vowed to try to live up to Mary Earps’s legacy after being confirmed as England’s first-choice goalkeeper for Women’s Euro 2025. After Earps’s shock retirement from international football last month, the England head coach, Sarina Wiegman, confirmed that her first choice was Hampton, who had started the Lionesses’ three previous games and has been selected five times in a row in the buildup to July’s tournament in Switzerland.
Jill Roord: ‘I lost my happiness in football a little bit. I needed to move home’

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Tom Garry

For Jill Roord, even after winning the Bundesliga title and getting to a Champions League final, eight years on from saying goodbye to FC Twente, there is simply no place like home. The 107-time capped Netherlands midfielder is this summer returning to the club where she began her career and, in an exclusive interview with the Guardian, she explains why the opportunity to move back closer to her family and friends was irresistible. “It had nothing to do with City.