#94. Queen of Women’s Sport - Sue Anstiss MBE
Eventful Lives Podcast
Dodge Woodall
5 • 857 Ratings
🗓️ 13 July 2022
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Women’s sport is enjoying a rightful surge in popularity in recent years, and that’s thanks to pioneers such as Sue Anstiss MBE.
After running a highly successful sports marketing and PR agency for 26 years, Sue became a founding trustee of the Women's Sport Trust, co-founder of the Women's Sport Collective, and now has been given the honour of becoming a Member of the British Empire.
She’s driving conversations forward for the game, striving for diversity in sport, and generally helping to shape the future of women’s sport.
We can all learn important lessons from Sue’s expertise, and I loved having the opportunity to hear her thoughts first hand.
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| 0:00.0 | Footballers meet English lady footballers at football. |
| 0:07.0 | Somebody's bound to get a kick out of it, though it isn't very often the French ladies at this match. |
| 0:12.0 | The English forward seem to be awfully forward and the French only passing fair. |
| 0:16.0 | That's no reflection on the fair players. |
| 0:19.0 | Anyway, the ladies from across the channel are completely outclassed by our own gold diggers in a really dainty game. |
| 0:27.6 | Women's football was massive in the 1920s. |
| 0:30.6 | So when men went off to war, women in the munitions factories started playing football |
| 0:35.6 | and these huge crowds came to watch them play. |
| 0:40.0 | And on Foxing Day, yeah, 1920, they had 53,000 people who came to watch them play at Good of Some Park, 14,000 waiting outside, couldn't get in. |
| 0:49.6 | So these huge crowds, continually, they were raised a huge amount of money for the war effort. And when |
| 0:55.0 | men came back from the war and the FAA were looking to expand its leagues, they decided to ban |
| 0:59.7 | women from playing on any pitches or having any referees because it was unsuitable for women. |
| 1:05.2 | And they were worried about how much women were making because our uteruses might fall |
| 1:09.5 | out when we were running around. |
| 1:16.2 | Literally, these scientific things of people, we had a finite amount of energy and if we played sport, we wouldn't be able to be infertile, wouldn't be able to have children, all those hideous |
| 1:20.1 | things you think. And that's why I get a bit defensive about the women and femininity and clothing now, |
| 1:24.1 | because that's right back from 150 years ago that was the attitude of all those |
| 1:28.6 | poor women they can work in the factories in the fields but they're too weak to run around on |
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