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- ↑ Davies, Pete (23 May 1994). "Football: Belles face tough run-in: The women's National Premier League is being fought to a tight finish. Pete Davies reports" . The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 25 May 2022.
- ↑ Davies, Pete (1996). I Lost My Heart To The Belles. London: Mandarin. p. 99. ISBN 0-7493-2085-0.
He did it because ten years was long enough, it was time he saw more of his daughter - but he also did it because all this fretting what people thought of them, all this bother about the FA and Copeland and how they were supposed to behave now these people were running things, all this nervy, small-'c' conservatism - that wasn't his idea of what the Belles were about for a minute.