LONDON BEES OFFICIAL MATCHDAY PROGRAMME 2020/21 v LEICESTER CITY FC 07 • 03 •2021 K.O. 2:00PM At the Heart of Our Community, with Community at Our Heart At Canons High School we are thrilled to be official supporters of the London Bees for the 2020/2021 Season of the FA Women's Championship. We believe in the importance of developing great partnerships that provide potentially life-changing opportunities for our students, confident that by engaging these young people partners will benefit too. If you are interested in seeing how over a thousand incredibly talented children and young adults can work with your organisation and, in doing so, develop new skills for lifelong learning then contact us on [email protected] today. Shaldon Road, Edgware, HA8 6AN Tel: 020 8951 5780 www.canons.harrow.sch.uk LONDON BEES AMBULANCE G3 G4 G5 G5B ENTRANCE G4 G5 G6 G6 LEGENGS W1-W6 W1 LEGENDS W7 LEGENGS W1-W6 ENTRANCE W2 W8 ENTRANCE Respecting our BAR G6B G6B W3 LEGENDS W9 STAND 66 BT G5B ENTRANCE ENTRANCE W4 W10 W5 STAND CONTROL G7B G7 G7 Neighbours ROOM G3 S2 S1 W6 G7B N4 N3 Here at The Hive London, N2 N1 we wish to minimise the impact we have on our neighbours. AWAY We respectfully ask that TERRACE TICKET OFFICE when around our site or in the immediate vicinity, AND 66 (AWAY) visitors dispose of their MAIN CAR PARK T G2B G2B rubbish in the bins that BEES S BAR 66 are provided. G8B G8B G9C G9C G9B E4 E5 G1 E1 E2 Thank you, your co- G2 G2 G1 BUMBLE’S FAMILY ZONE EAST STAND A & B EAST STAND operation is greatly B.F.Z ENTRANCE E3 ENTRANCE G9 G8 appreciated. HOME THE TICKET OFFICE FIRST AID HIVE BAR G9B G9 G8 LONDON BEES FC LTD FIRST TEAM SAFETY NOTICE Chairman: Anthony A Kleanthous Manager: Lee Burch General Manager: Natasha Kleanthous Assistant Coach: Sian Osmond Property Advisor: Graham Slyper Head Physio: Luigi Cerullo Spectators must not stand in seated Club Doctor: Dr Christian Kleanthous areas. This is for your own safety The Hive London, Camrose Avenue, and that of others. You may also be Edgware, HA8 6AG obscuring their view. PROGRAMME TEAM Failure to comply with this Safety Tel: 020 8381 3800 Notice renders you liable to being Contributing Editor: Adam Rowe ejected from the stadium Shop – Matchdays Only Designed By: Rickesh Patel Sponsorship: In the event of an emergency please [email protected] Regular Contributors: Adam Rowe & leave the ground in an orderly Ticket & Memberships – Option 5 Josh Palmer fashion by the exit gates indicated Email: [email protected] on the diagram. You will be directed Image Contributor: Edward Payne. to the gates by both the tannoy and the club stewards. Please do not TRIAL REQUESTS: run, but leave as quickly as possible. Thank you. [email protected] Website: www.londonbeesfc.com THE MANAGER Sian Osmond From the Manager GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE AND I HOPE ALL OF OUR AMAZING SUPPORTERS ARE KEEPING WELL ahead of this afternoon’s championship fixture with Leicester City Women. I’d like to wish all of our visitors players and afternoon because Leicester are flying so staff a very warm welcome to The Hive when we do get those chances we have to this afternoon. I’m sure it’s going to be an take them. entertaining match today! Leicester are top of the league and rightfully I’m really excited for my first home match so, they have an array of talent at their in charge, The Hive is a special place to me disposal and are a team set up for the and it’ll be an honour to lead the team from FAWSL. However, I have complete faith the dugout at our home ground for the first in the girls and know that we have the time. I have to give immense credit to the quality to cause them problems. We need girls for their attitude in training over the to continue our strong home form this last couple of weeks and I think everyone afternoon, take the game to Leicester and saw that commitment out on the pitch last do our utmost to take some vital points. Sunday against Liverpool. The scoreline didn’t really reflect the match and we had them We have four cup finals left and I know we pegged back in the second half for large have our fans behind us every step of the periods. We didn’t take our chances when way. they came and ultimately were punished late on. That’s something we have to rectify this Keep safe and see you soon, Sian JOIN THE LIONESSES SUPPORTERS CLUB Get access to exclusive competitions, priority tickets and the latest England news. TheFA.com/joinLSC 19645_LSC PROGRAMME AD_170x246.indd 1 04/09/2020 08:48 CAPTAIN Merrick Will From the Captain HEY BEES FANS, I HOPE YOU’VE ALL BEEN WELL! AND WELCOME TO LEICESTER TO THE HIVE FOR TODAY’S GAME. I’m sure you’ve heard the news of Lee’s departure as manager and we would like to take the opportunity to thank Lee for the amazing job he’s done during his 2 years at the club, and we wish him every success in his next venture! Credit must also go to Sian and our back room staff for being extremely efficient in continuing on from Lee and keeping the squad on track for completing our goals this season. The girls have also reacted well as a squad as we look to finish the season on a high. We’ve had a mixture of results the last 2 games but our most recent performance is something we hope to build from. The girls performed considerably well against Liverpool and made it difficult for them to play through us, and we’re hoping to do that again today against a strong Leicester side. Thank you for the continued support, we hope you’re cheering us on at home today. See you soon, Mez EVERY GOAL EVERY CELEBRATION EVERY MOMENT EVERY TEAM FREE FOLLOW THE ACTION LIVE ON faplayer.thefa.com What’s the Josh Palmer Buzz? It has been revealed that the FA Cup will restart from 31st March. Sunday 4th April will see one first round tie, Kent Football United vs Enfield Town, postponed from 13th December, as well as 17 second round ties be played. The following weekend will see the third round, whilst Sunday 18th will see the fourth round, were all WSL and Championship sides, including ourselves, enter the competition. The draw for round four has thrown up some interesting fixtures – we travel to Crystal Palace for a Championship London derby, Leicester City will host Liverpool in another all Championship tie, and Durham will travel to Everton. Tottenham Hotspur, our tenants here are the Hive, will travel to Reading, Birmingham City will host Coventry United in a West Midlands derby, Manchester City start their title defence at home to Aston Villa, Chelsea play London City Lionesses, and Brighton and Hove Albion entertain Bristol City. Manchester United will travel to the winner of the second and third round ties between Burnley, AFC Fylde, Sheffield FC and Sunderland, whilst Arsenal will take on the winner of the second and third round winners of Portsmouth, Cheltenham Town, Crawley Wasps and Gillingham. National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) side North Carolina Courage have announced the signing of Wales international and Reading midfielder Angharad James. The player, who has 83 caps to her name, is currently in the final year of her contract with the Royals, having joined in 2019. She has previously played for Arsenal, Bristol Academy, Notts County, Yeovil Town and Everton. Last week saw the announcement that the Welsh Premier Women’s League (WPWL) will resume this weekend, after having its’ elite status reinstated. This comes after all football in Wales ceased at the end of December, both women’s and men’s, as well as having its’ elite status rescinded in order to combat the coronavirus. The competition restarts this afternoon, with the Aberystwyth vs Briton Ferry Llansawel tie kicking it off. Next Sunday, and the following Sunday, sees full rounds of fixtures to be played. The first legs of 7 out of 8 of the Champions League round of 16 ties were played this week, with the second legs, and remaining first leg, to be played this coming week. In the fixtures this week, holders Olympique Lyonnaise Feminin overcame Danish outfit Brondby 2-0, with Chelsea defeating Atletico Madrid and VfL Wolfsburg beating LSK Kvinner of Norway by the same scoreline. Danes Fortuna Hjorring were brushed aside 4-0 by Barcelona, Manchester City beat Italians Fiorentina 3-0, and Bayern Munich claimed the biggest victory of the round so far, routing Kazakhstan’s BIIK Kazygurt 6-1. The only draw, a 2-2, was played out between Sweden’s Rosengard and Austria’s St Polten. The only tie not played was Sparta Prague’s visit to Paris Saint Germain, to be played on Tuesday. The England national team played their first match in 348 days on 23rd February, overcoming Northern Ireland 6-0 at St George’s Park. The behind closed doors fixture was also the first played at home by the Lionesses since 9th November 2019, when 78,000 fans attended the 2-1 defeat by Germany at Wembley. This comes after the side featured in the SheBelieves Cup in the USA last March, and an away trip to Germany in October and visit of Norway to Bramall Lane, Sheffield, in December were both cancelled due to the pandemic.