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Matt Dallinson
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Co-founder How's Your Touch. Women's football writer, sports illustrator and designer. Purveyor of the SWPL agenda. Opinions my own.
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Some examples of my illustrations 🎨 and a link to my writing feels like a worthwhile first post (before I start moaning about Hibs/hyping the SWPL)

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Losing at Ibrox in November would mean they'll have a likely 2 year winless run against Rangers 😬
Working on an article about the first go around of fixtures in SWPL that has involved looking at Celtic's big game record... Sorry Sadiku but it's a yikes from me
Presented without comment, the last 20 games of a selection of Scottish strikers...
Liga F 🇪🇸, Hollywoodbets Super League 🇿🇦, Campeonato Brasileiro 🇧🇷, also all 16 (and Primera Division A 🇦🇷 is 17) so 16 wouldn't be *the* largest without Liga MX either 🫠
Those I've spoken to have all been very pro- the change (although I'm a little perplexed personally at doing a league restructure because there's "too many games" then introducing a league cup change to increase the number of games & make the season start in July)
Oh definitely not suggesting the result would have gone another way but it is a shocking decision.

Don't know about you but I was really disappointed by some of these cup performances. If Spartans can score against Celtic and only concede 3 there's not much excuse for Montrose/Motherwell/Livi
We learned referees don't know what "all the ball over the line" looks like 🤐
Essentially just a bit of practice and some more inventive composition, as well as adding texture to the illustrations. Was going to do a whole series of these as HYT merch a while back but ended up swamped at work and never got it going again.
Been a while since I posted any illustration work... Scottish women's football tarot:

• The Devil (VAR Vs Lee Gibson)
•Justice (Lorraine Watson, Kylie Cockburn, & Morag Pirie)
•The Magician (Amy Gallacher)
•The Tower (Siobhan Hunter)
Something v different from us this week ✍️
This is obviously a promo image that wasn't taken by the club themselves but it isn't *that* hard to kit swap (especially to just plain black)
So not the point but it really annoys me that expansion teams use imagery including their rivals' kits
#NWSL double-take news: 18-year-old Chloe Ricketts, who was with the Washington Spirit, has signed a pre-contract for 2026-28 ('29 mutual option) with expansion team Boston Legacy. BUT she will finish 2025 w/ the Houston Dash. Spirit get $15K from Dash in the trade.

Follow all that?
(I have wider thoughts about how managers in WoSo often "ah resources/recruitment" their way out of criticism but that's a wider thing and Celtic fans definitely *are* criticising her management of the team)
It's easy to attribute it to the general ill feeling with the Celtic board amongst the fans but at some point there's got to be an acceptance that other managers are working with more restrictions than her and not having those problems.
Elena Sadiku after the game yesterday saying she needs more signings in attack with Noonan absent.

Celtic have a 25 player squad and the back up striker at all of her title rivals is an academy graduate. Hibs (Morrison), Glasgow City (Forrest), and Rangers (Berry)...
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David Elliot was appointed as Thistle manager early in the summer, now 5 games in we have seen his vision for the team (in between the experiments).

We've taken a look at the tactics so far as Thistle aim to return to the top six.

Read all about it👇
howsyourtouch.substack.com/p/david-elli...
David Elliot's Partick Thistle
What we have learned from his first five games in charge, how he has set up his side as they look to return to top six status, and what the stats tell us about the new era.
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Cox conceding directly from a corner the weekend after making a mess of claiming a cross and dropping it on the opposition striker's foot, opposition managers are about to be spending the week before playing Aberdeen training exclusively how to score olimpicos
Having NWSL on the telly for nights where I can't sleep by the way, big fan.
That is a ridiculous header from Kundananji, getting that power and directing it across the keeper to leave her flat footed (not to mention the timing of the run). Unbelievable.
All the transfers I know about have been announced, there's one I suspect has happened but it's SWPL and a 19 year old retired the other year so 🤷

So excited for Herron and Fitzgerald. Wouldn't be surprised if both force themselves into the starting eleven by the end of the season.
Believe there are as many as 5 signings still to be announced in SWPL with deadline day yesterday... Going to start a petition for a new rule that all transfer announcements have to be done by the transfer deadline 🫠
4 announced so far (some I didn't know about)... Deadline day truly is a figment of the SWPL's imagination
Believe there are as many as 5 signings still to be announced in SWPL with deadline day yesterday... Going to start a petition for a new rule that all transfer announcements have to be done by the transfer deadline 🫠
Thanks Blair 🤝

My laptop is now full of screenshots that weren't quite the right frame 😅
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3 games into Crichton's tenure at Rangers have given us some insight into her tactical mind and how she plans to lead title hopefuls to glory.

We've taken a look at the tactics so far, and what the Hearts game in particular revealed.

Read all about it👇
howsyourtouch.substack.com/p/leanne-cri...