GK Barry dubbed ’embarrasing’ and WSL silence slammed as Women’s cup draw fury grows

EXCLUSIVE: Fury over the WSL’s silence surrounding the embarrasing cup draw that saw celebrity GK Barry making lewd jokes and putting balls back in the bag has grown

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• Some of England’s top women’s football teams are fuming after last week’s disastrous league cup draw.
• Led by social media influencer GK Barry and her girlfriend, the Portsmouth midfielder Ella Rutherford, the draw decided the quarterfinals and semi-finals of the Subway Cup.
• Streamed live on TikTok, it sent shockwaves through the women’s game after the “I’m a Celeb…” star made lesbian sex jokes, mocked Spurs, and even put a ball back into the bag, risking voiding the whole process.
• A furious insider at one club told Charlotte Henry for the Daily Star: “It was embarrassing for everyone involved.
• “Women’s football is a great product on the pitch, with lots of people working hard to grow the game. It deserved better than this – it was completely unprofessional.”
• A figure at another club said that “like most people we were disappointed at how it was handled and we’ll give the appropriate feedback in private.”
• WSL Football, the company that runs the top two tiers of the women’s game in England, as well the league cup, has not responded to the furore. It did not answer a request for comment.
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