{"id":250245,"date":"2025-07-09T08:15:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T08:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/250245\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T08:15:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T08:15:10","slug":"london-city-lionesses-sign-former-brighton-full-back-pattinson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/250245\/","title":{"rendered":"London City Lionesses sign former Brighton full-back Pattinson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>London City Lionesses have completed the signing of former Brighton &amp; Hove Albion full-back Poppy Pattinson on a free transfer.<\/p>\n<p>The Pride announced news of the deal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.londoncitylionesses.com\/post\/london-city-lionesses-confirm-the-signing-of-defender-poppy-pattinson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:via a post on their official club website;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">via a post on their official club website<\/a> yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old former England youth international full-back joins London City Lionesses after leaving former club Brighton &amp; Hove Albion earlier this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Pattinson spent three years with The Seagulls in which she cemented her place at left-back. The player has also turned out for Sunderland, Manchester City, Bristol City and Everton in her career to date.<\/p>\n<p>On the international stage, Pattinson has represented England at various youth levels up to and including Under-23 level. She is still awaiting an opportunity at senior level.<\/p>\n<p>After joining London City Lionesses, Pattinson said \u201cBecoming a London City Lioness is very exciting; I want to help the team as much as possible and bring my experience and strengths to the club. I want us to finish as high as we can and make our mark in the WSL.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m tenacious, I love to win, I\u2019ll do anything to win, I love to get up and down the pitch and deliver crosses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pattinson is London City Lionesses\u2019 fifth signing of the summer transfer window.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"London City Lionesses have completed the signing of former Brighton &amp; Hove Albion full-back Poppy Pattinson on a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[1169,21116,748,393,11817,4884,257,84959,37068,886,96584,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-250245","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-brighton","9":"tag-brighton-hove-albion","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-everton","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-london","15":"tag-london-city","16":"tag-london-city-lionesses","17":"tag-manchester-city","18":"tag-poppy-pattinson","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114822284788848455","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}