England Women’s youth team coach will move to WSL strugglers‘A senior coaching role is something I’ve always wanted’Lydia Bedford has said she is “unbelievably excited” after being announced as the new manager of Leicester City’s women’s team on a contract taking her to the end of the current season. She will step into the vacancy left by Jonathan Morgan, who was sacked last Thursday after failing to win a single point from the promoted side’s first eight games of the Women’s Super League season.
Bedford, who will take over on Monday after leaving her head coach role with
England Women’s youth team, will be joined at the club by Brent Hills, a former head of women’s elite development at the
Football Association. The former Leicester and England men’s striker, Emile Heskey, had taken temporary charge but will revert to his role as the club’s head of women’s football development following Sunday’s League Cup game at
Manchester United.