West Ham defender Lucy Parker has slammed her personal membership for not facilitating a recreation for her ladies’s facet on the London Stadium.
Parker responded on Twitter to the Hammers’ announcement that their U18 males’s facet will play their FA Youth Cup semi-final on the stadium subsequent week.
West Ham are presently seventh within the Ladies’s Tremendous League and reached the Continental Cup semi-finals earlier this season, the place they have been overwhelmed 7-0 by Chelsea.
Parker wrote: “Not taking something away from the blokes as a result of they deserve it greater than their yr however when will we get a recreation on the stadium?
“The one crew within the WSL to not have a match within the males’s stadium and to not have performed there since 2019. Made an FA Cup semi-final final yr too, so it may’t be that. “
Sky Sports activities Information understands that one of many essential goals of West Ham’s new ladies’s crew board is to stage a match on the London Stadium, a floor the membership doesn’t personal.
Earlier this month, West Ham introduced that vice-chairman Karren Brady, alongside along with her colleague Tara Warren and ticketing supervisor Nicola Keye, had been appointed managers of the ladies’s crew.
Baroness Brady mentioned on the time that the trio would “work tirelessly to make sure West Ham United Ladies proceed to go from power to power, on and off the pitch”.
The ladies’s crew presently play their house video games at Chigwell Building Stadium, house of Nationwide League facet Dagenham.
Parker’s social media submit got here the day she was known as up by England boss Sarina Wiegman for subsequent month’s Finalissima encounter with Brazil at Wembley and the pleasant in opposition to Australia on the Gtech Group Stadium in Brentford.
Full England squad for Brazil and Australia friendlies
Guardians: Mary Earps, Sandy MacIver, Ellie Roebuck, Hannah Hampton.
Defenders: Millie Shiny, Lucy Bronze, Jess Carter, Niamh Charles, Alex Greenwood, Maya Le Tissier, Esme Morgan, Lucy Parker, Leah Williamson.
Midfielders: Laura Coombs, Jordan Nobbs, Georgia Stanway, Ella Toone, Keira Walsh.
Forwards: Rachel Daly, Lauren Hemp, Lauren James, Chloe Kelly, Jess Park, Alessia Russo, Katie Robinson.
Subsequent matches for England
April 6: England v Brazil – kick-off 7:45 p.m., Finalissima Ladies (Wembley Stadium)
April 11 : England v Australia – kick-off 7:45 p.m., pleasant (Gtech Stadium)
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