Andy Spence is sat at home, taking in what he has witnessed in the opening weekend of the Barclays Women’s Super League, but with different motivations to when he would religiously follow the league as the manager of one of the teams in it.
The former Everton manager’s new role as assistant head coach of the Canada Women’s National Team mean his Monday mornings are now more about sitting in front of a laptop screen then marching out onto the training pitch.
Having been at Manchester United versus Reading and Liverpool versus Chelsea, both close to where he still calls home on Merseyside, to watch several Canadian internationals, Spence is embracing his new challenge less than a year after taking the job.
“I know the landscape here fairly well,” he said with a laugh, referring of course to his lengthy stint as not just manager, but assistant manager to Mo Marley at Everton, a stint that lasted over a decade.
“It’s good to get out to games and see our players. It keeps me connected to the game here and it’s always nice to be able to have that contact with the players between camps.”
Spence only travels to Canada for national team camps, a combination of being able to stay closely connected to a growing number of Canadian players in…
