Forest Green Rovers Ladies
Forest Green Rovers Ladies are members of the South West Combination Football League and were formed at the start of the 2002–03 season when they changed from their former Chalford Ladies title.
In their first season the team were South West Women's Football League champions and also picked up the Pat Sowden Trophy. And in the 2007–08 season they reached the fourth round of the FA Women's Cup but were eventually knocked out by Liverpool LFC. Similarly the following season they reached the fourth round again, this time being knocked out by Leeds Carnegie. In 2009 they became the Gloucestershire County Cup winners following a win over Cheltenham Town Ladies.
An agreement was struck ahead of the 2011–12 season for the Forest Green Ladies side to play home games at Wisloe Road, the home of nearby Slimbridge. This followed years spent playing in the mens first team stadium at The New Lawn and as part of the agreement Forest Green Rovers donated a set of dugouts to Slimbridge and visited the club for a pre season friendly in August 2011.
Read more about this topic: Forest Green Rovers F.C.
Famous quotes containing the words forest, green and/or ladies:
“Nature has from the first expanded the minute blossoms of the forest only toward the heavens, above men’s heads and unobserved by them. We see only the flowers that are under our feet in the meadows.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“the green hells of the sea
Where fallen skies and evil hues and eyeless creatures be;
On them the sea-valves cluster and the grey sea-forests curl,
Splashed with a splended sickness, the sickness of the pearl;”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)
“The ladies understood each other, in the careful way that ladies do once they understand each other. They were rather a pair than a couple, supporting each other from day to day, rather a set of utile, if ill-matched, bookends between which stood the opinion and idea in the metaphorical volumes that both connected them and kept them apart.”
—Alexander Theroux (b. 1940)