DARTFORD 0-3 FULHAM
Posted: Mon May 19, 2025 10:50 pm
What a great way to end the season with a good turnout for Rachel's Day and the presentation of the League Cup.
Ok, the first part was true with the second clearly demonstrating the League's inability to tell the truth about anything.
Their statement wasn't worth the paper it was written on. It merely proved to serve nothing more than a temporary appeasement which ended with contempt towards Dartford Women FC while they continue to have Fulham's back. Inadvertently ofcourse. Did we really expect the FA to send a blazer to present the trophy at Princes Park?
All they've done is kept the wolves at bay until the season is put to bed. But I'm more intrigued as to what's being concealed beneath that bed.
My message to those responsible for what is increasingly looking like a cover up is enjoy your summer vacation. But not too much. Enjoy your sun loungers by the pool, sipping your Delboy cocktails, while we tell the rest of the world how utterly incompetent you are. So just relax and let us do the rest.
It even looks like the London & South East Regional League has even breached its own rules.
Section 8 (e) basically says irrespective of what's happened in previous rounds, once rumbled it's the most recent team played in the competition that get's the reprieve. In this case it would have been Millwall Lionesses. But no. The easier option was chosen to present us with the trophy on our last game of the season. And they couldn't even be bothered to do that in the end. Talk the talk, end of. Disgraceful.
To be honest, with the excellent facilities at Dartford Women FC, the professionalism of our coaching staff and the dedication of our gifted players, the London & South East Regional League currently doesn't match up to the standards set by our club. Next season the LSERL has to up it's game if it's going to regain a fraction of the credibility it's already lost. Mainly due to the debacle of the League Cup. But it's by no means an isolated case. This wasn't the first time our women's team have been let down hours before a game this season. Like the farce at Haywards Heath when the entire first team and under 18's allegedly fell ill the day before our girls were due to travel to their ground.
They must have all woke up Saturday morning puking in unison. Maybe they even shared the same bucket. Doesn't bear thinking about does it. And what did the League do about it? Nothing, apart from awarding us the points plus 3 miserly goals, with most of the season still left to have rearranged the fixture. They even falsely named the goalscorers taken from our previous game at home to Millwall. It's sheer bloody laziness if you ask me.
The match with Fukham was irrelevant in comparison to the main event, raising atleast £5000 for a very worthy cause.
Yes, yes, yes I know they were the better side on the day. But even then all is not what it seems. Look below the surface and our girls hadn't played a competitive game since May Ist, due to the LSERL caving in by allowing Fulham to manipulate the fixtures. Why wasn't they made to play more midweek games like other teams with games in hand? Bo Parker comes on late in the second half with number 47 on her back. Talk about taking the you know what with a capital 'P'. Which they've consistently been doing all season.
We didn't get off to the best of starts when Madi Parsonson prodded the ball past an exposed Jade Charlton as early as the 3rd minute.
36 mins and a Stella Gandee Morgan shot from the edge of the box doubled the lead.
Darts were very unlucky not to pull one back in the 60th minute when Emily Woodhouse found herself one on one with keeper Amber Webber, who did just enough to divert her shot behind for a corner.
Amina Hanif came even closer to scoring on 81 mins with a great effort from the left side of the area. It was in all the way but somehow Webber got her finger tips to it, diverting the shot over the bar.
Then in the 86th minute Fulham wrapped it up.
After saving the first shot Jade was unlucky to see the ball fall into the path of substitute Becky Stormer who fired home.
Fulham were then awarded a penalty in injury time but Jade was equal to it, saving from Megalie Mendes.
This followed a pathetic attempt by one of their players to run down the clock by collapsing next to Woodhouse, who never laid a finger on her.
Same old Fulham, cheating in the last minute of normal time right up until the very end of the season.
Can't say they haven't been consistent.
Player of the match Rachel Ahern and the Dartford Ultras.
Ok, the first part was true with the second clearly demonstrating the League's inability to tell the truth about anything.
Their statement wasn't worth the paper it was written on. It merely proved to serve nothing more than a temporary appeasement which ended with contempt towards Dartford Women FC while they continue to have Fulham's back. Inadvertently ofcourse. Did we really expect the FA to send a blazer to present the trophy at Princes Park?
All they've done is kept the wolves at bay until the season is put to bed. But I'm more intrigued as to what's being concealed beneath that bed.
My message to those responsible for what is increasingly looking like a cover up is enjoy your summer vacation. But not too much. Enjoy your sun loungers by the pool, sipping your Delboy cocktails, while we tell the rest of the world how utterly incompetent you are. So just relax and let us do the rest.
It even looks like the London & South East Regional League has even breached its own rules.
Section 8 (e) basically says irrespective of what's happened in previous rounds, once rumbled it's the most recent team played in the competition that get's the reprieve. In this case it would have been Millwall Lionesses. But no. The easier option was chosen to present us with the trophy on our last game of the season. And they couldn't even be bothered to do that in the end. Talk the talk, end of. Disgraceful.
To be honest, with the excellent facilities at Dartford Women FC, the professionalism of our coaching staff and the dedication of our gifted players, the London & South East Regional League currently doesn't match up to the standards set by our club. Next season the LSERL has to up it's game if it's going to regain a fraction of the credibility it's already lost. Mainly due to the debacle of the League Cup. But it's by no means an isolated case. This wasn't the first time our women's team have been let down hours before a game this season. Like the farce at Haywards Heath when the entire first team and under 18's allegedly fell ill the day before our girls were due to travel to their ground.
They must have all woke up Saturday morning puking in unison. Maybe they even shared the same bucket. Doesn't bear thinking about does it. And what did the League do about it? Nothing, apart from awarding us the points plus 3 miserly goals, with most of the season still left to have rearranged the fixture. They even falsely named the goalscorers taken from our previous game at home to Millwall. It's sheer bloody laziness if you ask me.
The match with Fukham was irrelevant in comparison to the main event, raising atleast £5000 for a very worthy cause.
Yes, yes, yes I know they were the better side on the day. But even then all is not what it seems. Look below the surface and our girls hadn't played a competitive game since May Ist, due to the LSERL caving in by allowing Fulham to manipulate the fixtures. Why wasn't they made to play more midweek games like other teams with games in hand? Bo Parker comes on late in the second half with number 47 on her back. Talk about taking the you know what with a capital 'P'. Which they've consistently been doing all season.
We didn't get off to the best of starts when Madi Parsonson prodded the ball past an exposed Jade Charlton as early as the 3rd minute.
36 mins and a Stella Gandee Morgan shot from the edge of the box doubled the lead.
Darts were very unlucky not to pull one back in the 60th minute when Emily Woodhouse found herself one on one with keeper Amber Webber, who did just enough to divert her shot behind for a corner.
Amina Hanif came even closer to scoring on 81 mins with a great effort from the left side of the area. It was in all the way but somehow Webber got her finger tips to it, diverting the shot over the bar.
Then in the 86th minute Fulham wrapped it up.
After saving the first shot Jade was unlucky to see the ball fall into the path of substitute Becky Stormer who fired home.
Fulham were then awarded a penalty in injury time but Jade was equal to it, saving from Megalie Mendes.
This followed a pathetic attempt by one of their players to run down the clock by collapsing next to Woodhouse, who never laid a finger on her.
Same old Fulham, cheating in the last minute of normal time right up until the very end of the season.
Can't say they haven't been consistent.
Player of the match Rachel Ahern and the Dartford Ultras.