{"id":883226,"date":"2026-09-07T12:16:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T12:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/883226\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T12:16:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T12:16:17","slug":"football-rugby-news-2026-mary-fowler-manchester-city-womens-super-league-wallaroos-players-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/883226\/","title":{"rendered":"Football, rugby news 2026: Mary Fowler, Manchester City women\u2019s super league, Wallaroos players visit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aussie sporting stars united in Manchester as the Wallaroos<\/a> watched Mary Fowler<\/a>\u2019s Manchester City win 3-1 against Birmingham in the Women\u2019s Super League<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The Wallaroos were guests of City ahead of their match against England this weekend. <\/p>\n

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Mary Fowler and Kerstin Casparij with Wallaroos players.\u00a0Rugby Australia<\/p>\n

Brittany Merlo, Bridie O\u2019Gorman, Eva Karpani and Pesi Palu were all on the sidelines and greeted by Fowler and Dutch star Kerstin Casparij with Wallaroos and City jerseys swapped between the groups. <\/p>\n

Fowler was first to score at Joie Stadium in City\u2019s first WSL match with the result putting them second just below Liverpool. Liverpool won its first match 4-0 against Charlton. <\/p>\n

City fired multiple shots in the first half but couldn\u2019t find the clinical blow. However, that first goal finally arrived in the 49th minute. <\/p>\n

Fowler did the lead up work on the right wing, crossing a ball into the box which Birmingham cleared poorly straight to Laura Blindkilde Brown who attempted her own cross. <\/p>\n

Birmingham couldn\u2019t clear that cross either with Fowler, now in the box, shooting from close range to open the scoring. <\/p>\n

Khadija Shaw scored the other two goals for City while Oceane Hurtre\u2019s goal for Birmingham didn\u2019t arrive until the 90th minute. <\/p>\n

Manchester\u2019s next fixture will fall on September 13 against Aston Villa, the same day the Wallaroos play England at CorpAcq Stadium.<\/p>\n

The match is part of the WXV Global Series with the Wallaroos to play France and Scotland after England. Home matches against Scotland will follow. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aussie sporting stars united in Manchester as the Wallaroos watched Mary Fowler\u2019s Manchester City win 3-1 against Birmingham…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":883227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-883226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=883226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/883227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}