Being in WSL is a privilege not a right – relegation risk should be taken seriously

Key Highlights

• We can still get angry here, fellas.
• There’s another thing to be said altogether about those boos returning so soon after the early-season promise of new hope and new chapters.
• As of Sunday night, following victories for Liverpool and West Ham over Tottenham Hotspur and Leicester City, Brian Sorensen’s side sit third-from-bottom in the WSL, one point above bottom Liverpool, level on points with West Ham United and a point off Leicester above them. Maybe The Athletic is overreacting.
• But it feels many have forgotten there is a threat of relegation this season, that, with the WSL’s expansion from 12 to 14 teams and the promotion play-off between the bottom-placed WSL side and third-placed WSL2 side.
• For whatever reason, the spectre of the latter has been met in press boxes and boardrooms with a shrug, another shrug, some WSL-WSL2 equivalent of, “Lads, it’s Tottenham”. Yet, it was clear on Friday night from those in the Goodison stands that they weren’t underplaying the risk, nor those Liverpool fans at St Helens on Sunday, twirling their red-and-white striped scarves over their heads at having finally tasted the sweet lacquer of league victory this season following their 2-0 win over Tottenham Hotspur.