Lynda Hale, trailblazing England international and seven-time FA Cup winner, dies

Winger started in England’s first ever international Lionesses will wear black armbands against Ukraine Tributes are being paid after the death of the trailblazing footballer Lynda Hale, who scored in England’s first official women’s international fixture. Hale, who was also a seven-time winner of the Women’s FA Cup as part of the Southampton Women’s FC side that dominated the English women’s game throughout the 1970s, started the Lionesses’ first formal game, against Scotland in November 1...

By Tom Garry