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The Anfield Wrap

Women In Football – Fan Experiences: TAW Special

The Anfield Wrap

The Anfield Wrap

Music, Sports, Soccer

4.72K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2021

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Women in football discuss how their experiences as fans on matchdays, in stadiums and on social media, differ from their male counterparts… Emilia Bona hosts Harriet Prior, Lizzi Doyle, Sian Bennett and Siobhan Biggane for an in depth panel about women’s experiences in football. Shadow Minister of Culture and TAW contributor Alison McGovern also joins the panel to talk about her experiences in football, and Jacqui McAssey talk Girlfans Zine and the diversity of female football fans. Subscribe to TAW Player for more from our female contributors and women in football, plus all the news and events that matter to you… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

This podcast is part of the Sports Social Podcast Network.

0:05.0

Hello and welcome to an Anfield Rap special show that is all about women's experiences as football fans.

0:10.0

That involves going to the match, supporting the Reds and trying to carve out a space for ourselves in what is a traditionally male sphere.

0:15.0

We're going to be talking about how women's experiences of match days, football grounds and social media differ from our male counterparts and telling our own stories as girl fans.

0:23.3

Later in the show we're going to be hearing from Shadow Minister of Culture and Sport and

0:26.9

top red, Ali McGovern, and also the founder of the girl fan'sine, Jackie McCassee.

0:31.2

This is the first of a two-part special. So in this episode we're going to be talking

0:34.1

about our experiences as fans, but in the next episode we're going to be exploring what it's like

0:38.1

as women working within the industry of sports media, whether that's as broadcasters, writers, or producers and all the things that come along with that.

0:44.8

But first, I have got Lizzy Doyle back for one night only, and also all the other nights that she'll

0:50.9

have been back for. She's got the B back for. She's excellent because this is a show

0:54.6

that we are drinking for.

0:56.1

I feel like I should break into that dream girls song,

0:59.1

one night movie.

1:00.4

Maybe after the second baby.

1:01.7

Second can, yeah.

1:04.0

We've got Chiborne began.

1:05.0

Oh, it's just easy before you get away.

1:08.0

She gets away. She won't promise that if she finishes her first can fast

1:11.0

than the rest of us gets the bonus can that was left in the fridge.

1:14.0

We've got Harriet Pryor who is almost burning a hole into the recording equipment.

1:22.2

She's watching it so intensely.

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