10 Years Of The Widnes Wild Women

I have been involved with the Widnes Wild Women’s team pretty much from when they started back in 2015 - in an ever-expanding variety of capacities - and what you have here is pretty much every single word that I have written about them over a 10 year period, along with all the stats that I have lovingly and painstakingly compiled.

To summarise, we have:

• Match reports for every game from 2015 to 2025
• News stories, player profiles and season summaries as were published year to year at the time
• League tables, playing records and player statistics for all 9 seasons that were played.
• 10 year totals, player stats and head to head records
• and lots and lots of great photos.

Much – but by no means all - of the written material has previously appeared on my icehockeyreview.co.uk website, in the Widnes Weekly News paper and on the Wild official website at various times - and also in various season review books. However, this is the first time that it has all been collected together and it is also the first time that the majority of the player stats have been published in this format.

Please be aware that there are TWO versions of this book available to order via Amazon.  There is the “budget” black and white version that has b/w photos throughout and is available for a very reasonable £12.50 and can be ordered here:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wild-Women-statistics-separate-available/dp/190964370X

There is also the super duper Colour Edition which has exactly the same season by season team information, player stats, photos etc but it is in colour. The problem is that this costs a whopping £23.84 on Amazon, which I think is an unreasonable price to ask.

It is nothing to do with me, by the way – it is due to the fact that this is a “Print On Demand” publication and that is what their pricing structure is for full colour books. Because I have set the selling price at the lowest possible figure, I am hardly making anything from these sales and pretty much all the revenue goes to Amazon. 

There is also a limit of 600 pages for this type of book, so the Black and White version – which I am also really not making any money on – has more pages (627) and has a load of my adverts included at the back, as well as Lucy’s poems about the Wild Women which are, sadly, missing from the colour edition.  

You can however, see all of Lucy’s collected ice hockey poems (and also my infamous “Pauline’s Bitch” verse…) in her dedicated volume here:

 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hockey-Poems-2013-2023-Lucy-London/dp/1909643572

So, if anybody is interested in the Colour Edition, please drop me a line first before placing an order anywhere…