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At the present time, it's a sort of watershed I think. Women are apparently liberated in many ways,

but in fact and in practice they're not they're still

discriminated against in many professional fields and in often in very pernicious

ways I think the time has come when women have got to find self-respect and a full identity of their own.

Hello and welcome to the book club with me Kate Mason and me Jim Campbell.

This week for the first Football Ramble presents book club, we have another first joining us in the studio.

A football writer so good the late great Hugh McEmonie went round proclaiming she could write most

of Fleet Street under the table. Her byline in the observer in 1973 caused baffled readers to write

into the sports desk, is Julie a man's name like Hillary or Shirley? This week, Jim and I have

been reading The Fleet Street Girls by Julie Wals.

Look at that! Oh, look at that! What a goal by Brady!

What's what? Now, Toss it! What a goal,

goal. Villas Play is still orderly and composed. Here's nickel. Oh yes!

Yes, this is the story of Life on Fleet Street in the 1970s and 80s where Welsh became the first woman to know the

thrill of being paid to attend a game of football purely to tell readers what

she thought of it. She recounts the privilege of summoning the latest Chelsea Starlet

or revered international for an interview but she also describes the the distress she sometimes felt from being

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