The Arsenal Women Arsecast Episode 24 - 50 years of the Women's FA Cup
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🗓️ 19 May 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
For the latest episode of the Arsenal Women Arsecast, Tim talks to BBC journalist, broadcaster and commentator Chris Slegg about his and Patricia Gregory's new book 'A History of the Women's FA Cup Final', released to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the competition. In the book, Chris and Patricia have uncovered a string of hitherto unknown facts and stats about the competition, which has suffered from a lack of documentation.
Chris discusses some of the difficulties and barriers of compiling accurate information about some of those early finals and the importance of accurately depicting the history of the women's game and understanding the barriers faced by players. Rachel Yankey did not know that she held the record for appearances in the final until Chris and Patricia's research uncovered the fact. Chris also discusses his relatively recent discovery of women's football and his passion for helping others to discover it too.
You can buy 'A history of the Women's FA Cup Final' at all of the usual retailers and we're sure your local book shop would be happy to order it in for you too. You can follow Chris' Twitter account dedicated to the book and the history of the Women's FA Cup @WFACupHistory
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another edition of the Arsenal Women Ask Cast on AskBlog.com. |
| 0:18.4 | Joining me, Tim, on this episode is BBC journalist, broadcaster and commentator Chris Slegg. |
| 0:25.5 | Now Chris, along with Patricia Gregory, has written a book that's just been released |
| 0:30.1 | called The History of the Women's FA Cup Final. |
| 0:33.2 | It's the 50th anniversary of the Women's FA Cup in 2021. |
| 0:37.7 | And quite fittingly this year, actually, the Women's FA Cup Final is going to be played |
| 0:42.0 | on the 5th of December at Wembley Stadium. |
| 0:44.8 | The 5th of December will mark the 100th anniversary of the FA banning women's football |
| 0:50.2 | a ban that lasted for 50 years until 1971. |
| 0:53.9 | And so that's why you have the Women's FA Cup starting in 1971. |
| 0:57.7 | And Chris's co-author, Patricia Gregory, was a big part of the driving force behind the |
| 1:02.8 | competition. |
| 1:04.5 | Anyone who's ever tried to find out any sort of information about previous Women's FA |
| 1:09.0 | Cup finals will understand what a task it is, even just finding information from Cup |
| 1:15.4 | finals in the early 2000s, like Team Lineups. |
| 1:19.4 | In the 1990s, it's even very hard to discover things like who scored the goals. |
| 1:25.5 | What was the attendance? |
| 1:26.7 | Really basic kind of statistics that we really take for granted in the men's game for |
| 1:32.7 | an occasion as prestigious as the Women's FA Cup Final. |
| 1:35.8 | It's still really, really difficult to find that information. |
| 1:38.7 | So what Chris and Patricia have done is basically undertaken a massive archiving exercise |
| 1:44.4 | and spoken to players and journalists and clubs just to gather some of all that information |
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