Four Hundred Years of Women's Football

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London Review of Books

Society & Culture

4.4 • 581 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Emma John and Natasha Chahal join Tom to discuss England’s victory in Euro 2022, the long history of women’s football – mentioned in a poem by Philip Sidney in the 16th century, banned by the FA for half of the 20th – and what may happen next. Find further reading, and listen ad free, on the episode page: https://lrb.me/euro22pod Subscribe to the LRB from just £1 per issue: https://mylrb.co.uk/podcast20b Title music by Kieran Brunt / Produced by Anthony Wilks Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to the London Review of Books podcast. I'm Thomas Jones. This week, to talk about England's victory at Wembley on Sunday and the longer history and future of women's football. I'm joined by Emma
0:21.8	John and Natasha Chahal. Emma John is the author of three books, following on, Wayfaring Stranger and
0:27.6	self-contained, and the presenter of the Guardian's cricket podcast, The Spin. She has a piece in the
0:32.6	current issue of the LRAB responding to a woman's game, The Rise Fall and Rise Again of Women's
0:37.2	Football by Suzanne
0:38.4	Rack. And my colleague Natasha Chahal, as well as head of sales at the LRB, is the founder of the online
0:43.9	community Premier Lassas and she's written a number of pieces on football for the LRB blog since
0:48.5	2019. Hello, Bocene. Thank you very much for joining me. Hi. thank you. So let's talk about Sunday to begin with.
0:57.2	I was going to start with saying best moments of the match for you,
1:01.0	but I just found out that Emma, you didn't actually,
1:03.8	you couldn't watch it live because you were covering the cricket.
1:06.9	Yeah, so there was a, there was a, the last of the England T20 matches against South Africa,
1:12.6	which, yeah, spoiler alert, they lost really badly by like a record margin, well, a record
1:19.9	equally, equaling margin. So, yeah, I was at Southampton. We knew, you know, I knew this was
1:27.4	going to be a clash of games.
1:30.2	And in a way, you know, it was quite nice for the crowd at Southampton who had just watched
1:36.9	Just Butler's team bowled out for 101 in the most limp, pathetic way that it meant that as a result, because the game finished early,
1:48.9	they all just left the stands but stayed in the ground and watched the football on the big screens.
1:55.6	And so at the same time that they're doing that, the press pack, at Southampton, you have the media centre at one end of
2:03.4	the ground, because there's, you're in the Hilton Hotel, which overlooks the ground, that's where
2:07.9	your media box is. But the pavilion and the players are at the opposite side of the band.
2:13.5	The Ageos Bowl at Southampton is very big ground. So this always happens is that you get to the end of the game.
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