Game On!

Sarah Crilly is delighted to now be able to play for the Celtic Women’s first team and is aiming to help the Hoops have a strong second half to the season.

- Louise Gould

SARAH Crilly initially signed for Celtic at the start of 2017, but due to issues with her work at the SFA, she wasn’t able to play for the senior team, although she continued training with the squad while playing for the Senior Academy side, who played in a lower league.

However, due to changes with her work role, she’s delighted to now be in a position to push for a place in the Celtic Women’s senior team, and is aiming to help the Hoops for the remainder of the 2018 season.

The Celtic View caught up with Sarah Crilly to talk about the campaign, and her views on the development of the women’s game in Scotland.

How has the season started for you and the team?

Because I spent half of last season playing for Celtic Senior Academy due to my job, it’s been a bit different playing first-team football. But from the first-team results we’ve had, they haven’t been bad so far. Obviously the League Cup final is one to forget and we’ve kind of bounced back from that. In the first game of the season against Glasgow City we put in a good performance, but unfortunately it was two errors more than anything that cost us the two goals in that game. With Edward Gallagher coming in as interim manager, the girls have really responded well to that, and we’re hoping Edward will stay on and help Eddie Wolecki Black when he comes in, and hopefully we can just go from there.