Green at the double as Albion win first WSL game of 2022
Kayleigh Green’s double helped fire Brighton to a 4-1 win, their first of 2022, over previously in-form Reading.
Hope Powell’s side dominated from start to finish and coasted to victory thanks to three goals in 16 second-half minutes from Green, Aileen Whelan and Emma Koivisto.
Green had earlier given Brighton the lead with a header from a corner as Reading failed to deal with Megan Connolly’s set-plays throughout.
Despite a late Amalie Eikeland consolation the win leaves Brighton eighth in the Barclays FA WSL on 19 points, two places and three points behind Reading in sixth.
The hosts set the tone for the afternoon, testing Reading keeper Grace Moloney inside a minute via Whelan’s headed effort from Emma Kullberg’s floated cross.
The breakthrough Brighton deserved came on 19 minutes when Connolly’s corner found an unmarked Green at the near post who headed home from close range.
Another header saw Brighton bypass Moloney once more but Victoria Williams’ glancing effort was ruled out for a push.
Green then extended Albion’s lead after 51 minutes with a first-time finish past an onrushing Moloney after great work out wide from Ellie Brazil.
The third came on the hour mark when Whelan poked home in a crowded six-yard box after another teasing Connolly delivery.
Koivisto then added extra gloss to the scoresheet when she swivelled home to
score after Reading failed to deal with Brazil’s cross.
With just moments remaining Eikeland scored a consolation but their fivegame win streak run came to an emphatic end.
Brighton goal-scorer Kayleigh Green said: “We’ve had a bad luck of runs lately and I think as team we had a conversation about a week ago and we know it’s not good enough.
“Today was just about
that performance for us and if we can find that performance on the back of that we can get some wins. The performance was there today and it shows what we can create which is fantastic.
“It was nice to score four as usually teams do it to us. It’s the first win against Reading we’ve ever had so it’s a fantastic feeling for us.
On her goals: “It was a great position I found myself in and a great header.
With set piece we’re not always consistent, it just shows their keeper had to save one off the line and one went in.
“We’ve been working on keeping the width a little bit more. We’ve got pace with myself and Ellie Brazil and we wanted to exploit that back line with the pace. When me and Brazil play together we understand each other. This is our fourth season now, we’ve got that understanding and it just shows today. Every goalkeeper I always do my reviews and I know Grace Moloney comes off her line quite quickly and I knew I had to take that quite early before she was set.”
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can be searched.”
The group works closely with the record offices and is a charity with everyone giving their time and efforts for free.
Mick said: “As chairman unusual offerings and requests come my way.
“During the lockdown someone sent me a 200 year old farmers daily diary covering 1814-23.
“There is much out there on Victorian farming, but very little on Georgian, so the SFHG transcribed the whole diary and now we intend to publish it.”
The group currently has more than 3,000 members worldwide and delivers them a quarterly journal by post or electronically. They also have a yearly conference and AGM.
Mick added: “Begin with those who are still alive and make contact with your family members for photos, stories, document.
“Be interested but occasionally sceptical too.”
Family historians often use West Sussex Record Office and libraries for their research.
A spokesman from West
Sussex County Council, said: “Support is available for residents wishing to research their family history in any library across West Sussex.
“For the most complex enquiries, our library staff will be able to liaise directly with record office colleagues.”
If you are a library member some websites are free to access either on the library computers or at home.
This includes Ancestry, British Newspapers Archive and Findmypast.
On Facebook, Caroline Paul said: “Work backwards. Find a roll of wallpaper to pencil your family tree into whilst researching. Use trials on websites, use the library and the British library. Good luck.
Sarah Best said: “Don’t rely on website transcriptions of documents. Look at the original document that usually goes with it.”
In East Sussex The Keep is a purpose built state of the art archive centre.
Stephanie Shepherd, development and communications officer from East Sussex County Council, said: “It is the perfect place to start your family history research.
“The Keep provides free access to genealogy websites such as Findmypast and Ancestry, parish records for Brighton and Hove and East Sussex, local historical wills and inventories, as well as street directories and local newspapers. These can all be used to find out about your ancestors and how they lived.”
In order to view documents which are kept at The Keep’s stores you will need to prebook a seat in its reading room. This can be done via the website.”
Last month Findmypast published the 1921 census which gave people more of an understand of their history and who had lived in their home.
It was taken on June 19, 1921 and surveyed 38 million people living in England and Wales during a period of economic turmoil between two world wars and recovering from a
Begin with those who are still alive and make contact with your family members for photos, stories.
MICK HENRY Chairman, Sussex Family History Group
global pandemic.
Tamsin Todd, chief executive officer at Findmypast said: “It has been a great honour for Findmypast to work with The National Archives as its selected partner to digitise and transcribe the 1921 Census.
“Our advanced search technology enables family historians to easily find and view images of the 1921 Census, and connect individual records into their family trees.
“Family historians around the world can now meaningfully search the Census to reveal where and how their ancestors lived and worked 100 years ago.”
The next census to be released will be the 1951 census, due for release in January 2052. The 1931 census was taken in April 1931 but was completely destroyed in a fire in 1942 at the Office of Works. There was no England and Wales census in 1941 due to the Second World War.
■ For more information, visit:
- Findmypast which has the 1921 census: Findmypast. co.uk
- Sussex Family History Group: sfhg.uk
- The Keep, Brighton - www. thekeep.info
- West Sussex Record Office: www.westsussex.gov. uk/leisure-recreation-andcommunity/history-andheritage/west-sussex-recordoffice