Soccer television play-by-play commentator Poppy Miller of the United Soccer League (USL) club Charleston Battery at MUSC Health Stadium in Charleston, South Carolina. Video frame courtesy Poppy Miller via YouTube.
By Oliver Tse
Email: workingnow88@workingnow88.com
Twitter: @workingnow88
Published March 12, 2019. Updated July 16, 2019, November 25, 2019, February 26, 2020 and October 15, 2020.
October 15, 2020 update: CBS Sports Digital Executive Vice President and General Manager Jeffery Gerttula has hired Poppy Miller to host UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League alternative studio shows on the free streaming video sports news service CBS Sports HQ with former beIN Sports USA/FOX Sports (U.S.) and current YES Network soccer television personality Ian Joy on match days from the studio of CBS Interactive in Stamford, Connecticut.
Weston McKennie joined CBS Sports HQ to detail his move to Juventus, expecting initially to go to the Premier League, while talking about teaming up with Ronaldo and more:
— Roger Gonzalez (@RGonzalezCBS) October 1, 2020
February 26, 2020 update: FOX Sports (U.S.) Executive Producer of World Cup Soccer David Neal has announced that he will assign Poppy Miller to call a Major League Soccer (MLS) match for all-sports pay-TV network FS1 (formerly FOX Sports 1) in 2020. (Note: this planned assignment was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.)
Soccer television play-by-play commentator Poppy Miller produced and directed this profile video of herself at MUSC Health Stadium in Charleston, South Carolina in June 2019. Courtesy Charleston Battery.
CHARLESTON, South Carolina, USA – On 2019 International Women’s Day, Friday, March 8, only one U.S. sports television entity regardless of language chose to celebrate the occasion by offering a live major men’s professional team sports telecast with an all-women commentary team.
As expected, Univisión Deportes President Juan Carlos Rodríguez reunited Mexico City-based play-by-play announcer Iris Cisneros and Miami-based Mexican match analyst/co-commentator Ana Caty Hernández, two 28-year-old pioneers of Spanish-language sports television in North America who made history TWICE in 2018 by first calling the second half of the Club América vs León Liga MX (Mexican 1st Division) fútbol match on site from Estadio Azteca in Mexico City on March 10, 2018 for broadcast on free-to-air Univisión Network in the U.S (video below courtesy Univisión Deportes)…
From left to right: match analyst Ana Caty Hernández (MEX), reporter Cristina Romero (MEX) and play-by-play announcer Iris Cisneros (MEX) during the Fútbol Central halftime show of the Club América vs Club León Liga MX (Mexican First Division) fútbol match at Estadio Azteca in Mexico City on Saturday, March 10, 2018. The telecast aired on U.S. free-to-air terrestrial broadcast television network Univisión with simulcast on U.S. Spanish-language all-sports pay-TV network Univisión Deportes Network (UDN). Courtesy Univisión Deportes.
…and then the France vs Croatia Final Match of FIFA Mens’ World Cup Russia 2018 on site from Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow on July 15, 2018 for broadcast on free-to-air Televisa Canal 9 in Mexico…
…to call the Veracruz vs Santos Laguna Liga MX match “off tube” for broadcast on U.S. Spanish-language all-sports pay TV network Univisión Deportes Network (UDN) from separate studios over 1200 miles (2000 km) apart (video below courtesy Univisión Deportes):
From left to right: match analyst Ana Caty Hernández (MEX) (at Univisión Deportes studio in Doral, Florida), reporter Guadalupe Flores (MEX) (at Estadio Luis Pirata Fuente in Veracruz, Mexico), play-by-play announcer Iris Cisneros (MEX) (at Televisa Deportes studio in Mexico City), reporter Karina Herrera (MEX) (at Estadio Jalisco in Guadalajara, Mexico) and host Lindsay Casinelli (VEN) during the Fútbol Central pre-match show which aired on U.S. Spanish-language all-sports pay-TV network Univisión Deportes Network (UDN) on Friday, March 8, 2019. Courtesy Univisión Deportes.
Because the 2020 International Women’s Day will be on SUNDAY, one would expect at least one other U.S. sports television entity besides Univisión Deportes to offer a special telecast of a major men’s professional sports event featuring an all-women commentary team.
Sports television executives, all of whom “worship at the church of what’s working now”, now understand the value of International Women’s Day special broadcasts with all-women on-camera commentary teams, as they will be able to capture at least 10 times in public relations value compared to what they have to spend in incremental production costs.
Furthermore, International Women’s Day will offer sports television executives the “cover” necessary to introduce to the audience new female voices on the biggest possible stage.
In my research on this recent trend of dozens of women breaking through as television commentators for multiple major men’s professional team sports events across multiple countries in multiple languages, I have identified one young U.S.-based sports television play-by-play commentator of British origin who might be only one year away from earning an opportunity to call television play-by-play of a “major” men’s professional team sports event for a U.S. sports television “leader”.
Poppy Miller began her second year of calling television play-by-play for the Charleston Battery of the United Soccer League (USL) Championship, a “Division 2” men’s professional soccer league sanctioned by the United States Soccer Federation, on Saturday March 9, 2019, when she called the Battery’s season opener at home against Ottawa Fury FC for both local broadcast television and the national pay-subscription Internet streaming video service ESPN+.
The United Soccer League (USL) match between Charleston Battery and Ottawa Fury FC at MUSC Health Stadium in Charleston, South Carolina on Saturday, March 9, 2019 as broadcast on pay-subscription Internet streaming video service ESPN+. Play-by-play announcer: Poppy Miller (ENG). Match Analyst/Co-commentator: Derek Broadley (ENG). Courtesy USL/ESPN, Inc.
Born on October 17, 1994 in Nottingham, England, Miller was introduced at a young age to association football by her father David who owns an electrical business. Besides first playing on boys and later girls teams, Miller often attended home and away matches of the local English Football League (EFL) club Nottingham Forest FC.
While playing for a girl’s reserve team at Lincoln City FC Academy, Miller met two older girls on the team bus who had accepted athletic scholarships to attend university and play college soccer in the U.S. By the time Miller became a member of a Mansfield Town Ladies FC Development team which won its league and earned promotion to the next level, she had contacted Sporting Chance USA, a U.K.-based agency which connected young British footballers with U.S. universities offering athletic scholarships.
Miller accepted an athletic scholarship from University of South Carolina-Beaufort (USCB), a member of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) with an enrollment of 2100 students. Besides earning a Bachelor’s Degree in Communications, Miller served as the student body vice president during her senior year and played defender on the USCB Sand Sharks women’s soccer team for 4 seasons.
While working as an intern at the news department of a local television station in March 2017, Miller was reporting at a golf tournament where she met a woman whose husband connected her with Charleston Battery owner Eric Bowman.
“At that point, I felt that I had emailed every team, every person, every contact that I possibly had”, said Miller during our telephone conversation last week. “(The opportunity with the Charleston Battery) was very out of the blue and I was so grateful.”
Miller accepted her first paying job in sports television with the Battery as a digital video producer and on-camera reporter on March 22, 2017, 2 months before she graduated from USCB. Miller’s first television assignment as sideline reporter during the Battery’s 2017 USL season home opener would take place 3 days after she was hired.
As a digital video producer, Miller was responsible for appearing at community events, interviewing, script writing, shooting and editing all video for distribution via the CharlestonBattery.com web site and all social media accounts controlled by the club.
Miller’s responsibilities during weekly live Charleston Battery match telecasts expanded throughout the 2017 season. A few months after she began calling away matches “off tube” as the match analyst/co-commentator, she took on the pre-match analyst role in addition to conducting half time and post-match interviews for on site telecasts of home matches near the end of the season. Miller partnered in the television broadcast booth with Andrew Bell, a Reading, England native who began with the Charleston Battery in 1999 as a radio play-by-play announcer and was promoted several times until he was named club president in 2007.
The United Soccer League (USL) match between Charleston Battery and Charlotte Independence at MUSC Health Stadium in Charleston, South Carolina on September 20, 2017, as broadcast on WCIV–DT 36.1 “My TV Charleston” and streamed across the U.S. on Internet streaming video service ESPN3.com (U.S.) Play-by-play announcer: Andrew Bell (ENG). Match Analyst/Co-commentator: Stephen Armstrong (ENG). Pre-match analyst/touchline reporter: Poppy Miller (ENG). Courtesy USL.
When Bell announced in February 2018 his intent to resign from the Charleston Battery in order to take the chief executive role with USL expansion club Memphis 901 FC, Bowman asked Miller whether she was interested in moving up to the lead television play-by-play commentator position.
“(Play-by-play) was something I had never really thought I would have the opportunity, or maybe even the confidence, to do it.” said Miller. “But I said, ‘Yeah, sure, I’ll definitely give it a go.’ I am so, so grateful now that I had the opportunity, because I absolutely love it. I still have so much to learn, but I am definitely enjoying it.”
Miller’s television co-commentary partner for the 2018 and 2019 USL seasons is Charleston Battery Youth Soccer Technical Director Derek Broadley, a native of Glasgow, Scotland who served as the Youth Academy Director for London-based English Premier League club Crystal Palace FC in 1998-2003 before he came to the U.S.
Miller called 30 Charleston Battery matches (home matches on site, away matches “off tube” at a TV studio), usually partnered with Broadley, during the 2018 USL season.
During the 2019 season, Miller and Broadley will only provide television commentary of 17 Charleston Battery USL home matches on site for local television broadcast in the two television markets of both teams involved in each match, as well as national distribution via the pay-subscription Internet streaming video service ESPN+. In addition, Miller and Broadley will call any home matches for the Charleston Battery in the US Open Cup for Internet streaming video.
July 16, 2019 Update: Poppy Miller was assigned to call play-by-play of the Atlanta United FC (MLS) vs Saint Louis FC (USL) US Open Cup quarterfinal match on site from Fifth Third Bank Stadium in Kennesaw, Georgia on July 10, 2019 for Internet streaming on ESPN+:
The Atlanta United FC (MLS) vs Saint Louis FC (USL) US Open Cup quarterfinal match at Fifth Third Bank Stadium in Kennesaw, Georgia on July 10, 2019 as presented on pay-subscription Internet streaming service ESPN+. Play-by-play commentator: Poppy Miller (ENG). Match analyst/co-commentator: Charlie Davies (USA). Reporter: Tyler Terens (USA). Courtesy United States Soccer Federation/Soccer United Marketing (SUM)/ESPN, Inc.
On weekends when the Charleston Battery team is playing away, Miller will be available to call play-by-play of USL and National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) matches “off tube” from the Vista Worldlink production facility in Dania Beach, Florida.
During our phone conversation last week, I asked Miller for her thoughts regarding English-language sports television around the world.
workingnow88: In December 1997, I spoke with current BT Sport (U.K.) Head of Content Simon Green at his Los Angeles office when he was the founding Vice President & General Manager of then newly-launched U.S. soccer-centric sports TV network FOX Sports World (which was re-branded FOX Soccer Channel in January 2005 but went out of business in August 2013 after FOX Sports lost the U.S. media rights to the English Premier League to NBC Sports Group)…
The FOX Sports World broadcast of the USA vs Brazil 1998 CONCACAF Gold Cup Semifinal match from the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, California on February 10, 1998. Play-by-play commentator: Kevin Wall (USA). Match analyst/co-commentator: Rick Davis (USA). Touchline Reporter: Ridge Mahoney (USA). Courtesy CONCACAF/FOX Sports (U.S.).
workingnow88: …Simon Green thought that sports TV play-by-play may be one of the most difficult jobs in the world, because making one mistake in identifying a player, particularly a goal scorer in a soccer match, can end a play-by-play announcer’s career, as an announcer is “only as good as his or her last broadcast” and video evidence of the announcer making the mistake is available for everyone around the world to watch.
That player identification error essentially ended the play-by-play career of British sports radio legend Alan Green, who had called the 2017 UEFA Champions League Final for BBC Radio 5 Live in the U.K. on June 3 before coming to the U.S. for a new assignment. Alan Green incorrectly identified a goal scorer 26 minutes into his first Atlanta United FC MLS regional TV broadcast on June 17, 2017 and he did not return to Atlanta United FC for the 2018 MLS season…
Atlanta United FC (MLS) television play-by-play commentator Alan Green (NIR) misidentified Columbus Crew goal scorer Federico Higuaín (ARG) as “…meh-ROM, I think…” [Justin Meram (IRQ)] on June 17, 2017. Green also mispronounced the names of Higuaín (“h” should be silent) and Meram (should be “MEH-rum”). Green did not return to Atlanta United FC after the 2017 season. Match analyst/co-commentator: Dan Gargan (USA). Courtesy Major League Soccer (MLS).
workingnow88: …May I ask you, despite the difficulty of the play-by-play position, why (besides being asked by Charleston Battery owner Eric Bowman) did you decide to make the switch from analysis/co-commentary to play-by-play, and which play-by-play announcers around the world inspired you to make the switch?
Miller: You know, it’s such as great opportunity to make the change and to make the leap into the next step. To me, it is something I have been so passionate about. So even though I was nervous in taking on the role, I was so grateful to have the opportunity to do so. When we are talking about females around the world doing such a great job already like Beth Mowins. She is somebody I have watched for years and years…It is fantastic to be the voice on a platform where you can give other women a pathway up to what you are doing.
Sportscaster Beth Mowins (USA) was featured in Episode 5 of the “Unstoppable” documentary video series profiling women involved with the National Football League (NFL). The video was filmed in the San Francisco Bay Area on August 23-24, 2018, while Mowins was assigned by the Oakland Raiders regional syndicated television network to call television play-by-play of the Oakland Raiders vs Green Bay Packers NFL pre-season game. Courtesy NFL/Oakland Raiders/Marriott International via Facebook.
workingnow88: Did you grow up listening to Jacqui Oatley when she started commentating English Premier League matches for edited presentation on BBC One’s Match of the Day in 2007?
Sportscaster Jacqui Oatley (ENG) was featured in Episode 1 of the “Women In Football” documentary video series released in December 2018. Courtesy Twitter UK.
Highlights from the Fulham FC vs Blackburn Rovers FC English Premier League match from Craven Cottage in London, England on April 21, 2007 as aired during Match of the Day on British free-to-air terrestrial broadcast television network BBC One. Play-by-play commentator: Jacqui Oatley (ENG). Courtesy Premier League/British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
Highlights from the Everton FC vs Fulham FC English Premier League match from Goodison Park in Liverpool, England on December 8, 2007 as aired during Match of the Day on British free-to-air terrestrial broadcast television network BBC One. Play-by-play commentator: Jacqui Oatley (ENG). Courtesy Premier League/British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
Miller: Yes. And I have listened to Vicki Sparks (the first woman to call live TV play-by-play of a Men’s World Cup match in English when she called Portugal vs Morocco on BBC One on June 15, 2018) as well. I can totally learn from things from everybody and I am always taking notes. I was just listening to Vicki Sparks this past Christmas commentating a couple of matches. There are things you can learn from everybody, regardless of whether the announcer is a woman or a man. I now go home to watch football matches and at work I now listen to football matches. So I think, the more you can hear and the more repetitions you get you can become more confident. To me, that is the only way I can keep growing and keep moving forward.
workingnow88: What about the U.S.-based play-by-play announcers, especially women who have called television play-by-play of multiple men’s and women’s professional and college sports including soccer besides Beth Mowins such as Lisa Byington [who has called TV play-by-play of one MLS match and one National Basketball Association (NBA) game in the past year in addition to dozens of men’s college basketball games and a handful of American College Football games] and Kate Scott [who has called pre-season National Football League (NFL) games on radio and calls PAC-12 Conference Women’s College Soccer TV play-by-play with Aly Wagner and Danielle Slaton as match analysts/co-commentators]?
Miller: Absolutely, yeah. I look back at the (all-women commentators) FOX match (MLS DC United vs New England Revolution on August 17, 2018 called by Lisa Byington) with Danielle Slaton (as match analyst/co-commentator) and Katie Witham (as sideline reporter). It’s fantastic to see all these women in these roles. I look up to each and every single one of them. I really do take something from every broadcaster that I watch. These women are really blazing the way for women like me and women to follow…
DC United vs New England Revolution Major League Soccer (MLS) match played at Audi Field in Washington, DC on Sunday, August 19, 2018 as broadcast on U.S. all-sports pay TV network FS1 (formerly FOX Sports 1). Play-by-play announcer: Lisa Byington (USA). Match Analyst/co-commentator: Danielle Slaton (USA). Touchline reporter: Katie Witham (USA). Courtesy MLS/FOX Sports (U.S.)
Miller: …And I think Aly Wagner (the first woman to serve as English-language TV match analyst/co-commentator for a Men’s World Cup match when she called 13 FIFA Men’s World Cup Russia 2018 matches for FOX Sports U.S.) does such as fantastic job… She is such a great analyst of the game… She has all these fantastic characteristics that she can bring into the match. And one of the things you are learning when you are doing play-by-play is to look at all your notes. An now, as I am making these notes, knowing that half of my notes won’t even make it into the broadcast. You have to be so prepared…
From left to right: host Kate Abdo (ENG), studio pundits Eric Wynalda (USA) and Aly Wagner (USA) discussed the performance of Real Madrid CF forward Cristiano Ronaldo during the 20167-2017 season as part of the FIFA Confederations Cup Russia 2017 preview show which first aired on free-to-air terrestrial broadcast TV network FOX on Saturday, June 3, 2017. Courtesy FIFA/FOX Sports (U.S.)
Highlights from the Cameroon vs Chile FIFA Confederations Cup Russia 2017 match played at Spartak Stadium in Moscow, Russia on Sunday, June 18, 2017 as broadcast on U.S. all-sports pay TV network FS2 (formerly FOX Sports 2). The FOX Sports (U.S.) announcers called this match off monitors at FOX Network Center in Los Angeles, California, USA. Play-by-play announcer: John Paul “JP DellaCamera (USA). Match analyst/co-commentator: Aly Wagner (USA). Courtesy FIFA/FOX Sports (U.S.)
Highlights from the Morocco vs Iran FIFA Men’s World Cup Russia 2018 match played at Krestovsky Stadium in Saint Petersburg, Russia on Friday, June 15, 2018 as broadcast on U.S. free-to-air terrestrial broadcast pay TV network FOX. The FOX Sports (U.S.) announcers called this match off monitors at FOX Network Center in Los Angeles, California, USA. Play-by-play announcer: Derek Rae (SCO). Match analyst/co-commentator: Aly Wagner (USA). Courtesy FIFA/FOX Sports (U.S.)
University of California Golden Bears vs Santa Clara University Broncos Women’s College Soccer match played at Edwards Stadium in Berkeley, California on Sunday, August 20, 2017 as broadcast on U.S. all-sports pay TV network PAC-12 Network. Play-by-play announcer: Kate Scott (USA). Analyst: Aly Wagner (USA). Courtesy PAC-12 Conference.
Miller: …Sometimes play-by-play is difficult. I mean during this past pre-season, I called matches involving MLS clubs in the Carolina Challenge Cup. FC Cincinnati, (an expansion) team that everyone is looking to see, came out during its first outing without numbers on (their uniforms). There are little things in the match that you sometimes can’t prepare for. I didn’t know that (FC Cincinnati) weren’t going to wear numbers or names on the back of their shirts. But that’s something that comes as part of the game. You have to be able to roll with it and do your best. That’s why I think it’s so important to watch a lot of broadcasts. Because it is live TV, not everything is going to go right. There are things that go wrong that viewers don’t even know about…
Miller: …What I (consider to be) a great broadcast, it’s the one that keep you engaged and make viewers feel comfortable. (Viewers) can take something of worth away from (the broadcast) as well. So it’s one of those things Beth Mowins has said before: it’s great to give something to the viewers, but not to be the show. I completely agree with that.
workingnow88: With so many college sports contests broadcasting on ESPN-owned and operated SEC Network and soon ACC Network (launching August 2019) taking place within 300 miles of Charleston [South Carolina and Georgia in the Southeastern Conference (SEC); Clemson, Duke, North Carolina, North Carolina State, Wake Forest, and Georgia Tech in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC)], have you started working on your TV play-by-play skills of sports other than soccer?
Miller: I haven’t worked on play-by-play of sports besides soccer, but I would never say no. The only sport that I would not call (for now) is American Football because I am still learning the rules of the sport. I grew up loving sports. I love golf. I would be open to trying anything and everything. But soccer is really what I want to call and it is my main passion. It is the sport I am most comfortable with, but I would never say no to a new opportunity.
workingnow88: What are your career goals as a sports TV play-by-play announcer in the short term (i.e. in the next 18 months) and in the long term? What leagues and tournaments are you aiming for the opportunity to call play-by-play during your career?
Miller: You know, this is a question that I think about all the time. I am constantly writing down new goals and taking on new challenges. I am so excited this year because I will call neutral USL matches not involving the Charleston Battery (off tube) at Vista Worldlink. I would also love to get involved with the NWSL…
Highlights of the Orlando Pride vs Utah Royals NWSL match at Orlando City Stadium on April 27, 2019. Announcers were calling this match off monitor from Vista Worldlink in Dania Beach, Florida. Play-by-play: Poppy Miller (ENG). Analyst: Dan Lauletta (USA). Courtesy NWSL.
Miller:…Last season I was doing an SEC (women’s soccer) game for the South Carolina Gamecocks. I would hope to call more SEC games as well. In the short term, I am carrying on, getting as many reps as I can…
University of South Carolina Gamecocks hosted the University of Kansas Jayhawks in this National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Women’s Soccer Tournament Round of 16 match at Eugene E. Stone Stadium on the campus of the University of South Carolina at Columbia in Columbia, South Carolina, USA on November 24, 2019. Originally streamed at watchespn.com under the SEC Network+ brand. Play-by-play commentator: Poppy Miller (ENG). Match analyst/co-commentator: Morgan Conklin (USA). Courtesy NCAA/ESPN, Inc.
Cinderella crashes the College Cup! Washington State University Cougars defender Mikyaa Minniss (USA) scored the “Golden Goal” during the 96th minute of the NCAA Division I Women’s College Soccer Tournament Quarterfinal match against the University of South Carolina Gamecocks at Eugene E. Stone III Stadium at the University of South Carolina at Columbia in Columbia, South Carolina, USA on November 29, 2019. Originally streamed at watchESPN.com under the SEC Network+ brand. Play-by-play: Poppy Miller (ENG). Analyst: Brian Hand (USA). Courtesy NCAA/ESPN, Inc.
Miller: …Looking long term, I think everybody’s goal is always to get to the next step, calling games for national TV broadcast and eventually covering the national teams. I have so many goals and aspirations. When you are watching women in the industry, it’s hard not to look up to them and look where they are at. Rebecca Lowe is on NBC hosting Premier League and covering the Olympics…The Olympics has always been a long term goal of mine. And I think it’s important to always set yourself new goals every season. Two years ago I didn’t know I would be in this position…You just want to be progressing. So setting goals has helped me and trying to make them and looking at them and recapping them and reviewing them often is important to me.
From left to right: Robbie Mustoe (ENG), Mark Clattenburg (ENG), Rebecca Lowe (ENG), Andrés Cantor (ARG) and Robbie Earle (JAM) posed for this publicity photo prior to the Premier League Mornings Fanfest at Chelsea Pier in New York City on November 25, 2017. Courtesy Premier League/NBC Sports Group.
workingnow88: Rebecca Lowe did a podcast interview last August with sports media critic Richard Deitsch in which she emphatically stated her belief that International Women’s Day should NOT be celebrated with all-women television broadcasts of men’s professional team sports events because these special all-women broadcasts would “set back the progress of women in broadcasting”. Because International Women’s Day on March 8, 2020 will be on a Sunday, may I ask you to comment on what Lowe said to Deitsch in that podcast?
Miller: You know, I think Rebecca Lowe is a fantastic advocate for women and women in sports. I have followed her journey for a long time now. (Lowe was the first woman in the English-speaking world to host a telecast of the English F.A. Cup Final when she was given the honor by the now-defunct ESPN UK in May 2012.) A part of me agrees (with her) that when you see women in a sports broadcast, maybe it is necessary when people are not talking about women doing this and women doing that. I think that it will be a great day when that isn’t the headline in the conversation. So, I think any opportunity that people get in this industry is fantastic. And I think she is a great trailblazer for women in sports especially in the TV world to keep moving forward and to keep these opportunities open for women across the board.
From left to right: presenter Rebecca Lowe (ENG), pundits Robbie Savage (WAL) and Martin Keown (ENG) at the pitchside studio desk prior to the Arsenal FC vs Leeds United FC English FA Cup 3rd Round replay match at Emirates Stadium in London, England on January 9, 2012 in a match broadcast on all-sports pay TV network ESPN UK. Keown was hit on the head by an errant ball, while Lowe was abused by Leeds United FC supporters who threw hot dogs and coins at her and shouted sexually-explicit language towards her. Video courtesy English Football Association/ESPN, Inc.
workingnow88: Best of luck to you, Poppy, as you pursue your goals. Hope we can speak again soon.
