Women's Euro 2022

Woman's Hour

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🗓️ 1 August 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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In today's Woman's Hour we dedicate the programme to Women's Football after the Lionesses won the Euro 2022 Championship last night. Rebecca Myers is a journalist for The Times and a prominent voice in Women's Sport, she joined Andrea to give a match report and described some of her favourite moments. What will the legacy of last night’s Women’s Euro 2022 be? The former lioness and second highest goal scorer for England Kelly Smith joins Andrea Catherwood alongside Dame Heather Rabbatts, Dame Heather was the first female board member of the Football Association when she joined in 2012. We will also discuss the grass roots of the game and what more oppurtunities could be given to girls who want to play at school and beyond, Andrea speaks to Baroness Sue Campbell the Director of Women’s Football at the FA. David Kogan negotiated the sale of the TV rights for the Women’s Super League and is a long time advisor to the FA, he joins Andrea to discuss what next for the business side of the sport. Neither the Wales nor Scotland women’s football teams qualified for the Euro 2022 tournament, but will England’s victory, and Northern Ireland’s involvement in the group stages, be a boost for all the nations of the UK? The Scottish crime writer and football fan Val McDermid joined us alongside Laura McAllister, former Wales international team captain and currently deputy chair of UEFA's Women's Football committee and Caragh Hamilton, a midfielder for the Northern Ireland team. And Evelyn, a seven-year-old goalie from Leeds, has written a poem in honour of her favourite Lioness. Presenter: Andrea Catherwood Producer: Emma Pearce

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:05.2	Hello, I'm Andrea Catawood and welcome to Women's Hour on BBC Radio 4.
0:10.0	This is what dreams are made of, as a young girl watching women's football to this unbelievable.
0:17.4	Those were the words of Chloe Kelly minutes after she scored the match winning goal at Wembley
0:22.3	last night to win the European Championship and give England their first major football
0:27.2	tournament victory in over 50 years. Welcome to Women's Hour, where today we are celebrating
0:33.2	the game changers.
0:34.2	The Lions has had their first major glory, a derby side with this side, with this energy,
0:44.1	with the way that the game is going in this country. We hope, we believe it's the first
0:49.8	of many. England's are the winners of the Women's European Championship 2022.
0:59.1	While it was a hard fought victory against who else but Germany. One all, after 90 minutes,
1:05.1	England's goal deep in the second half of extra time secured victory and avoided the dreaded
1:10.0	penalty shoot-out. The game saw a record cry of 87,000 fans in the stands of Wembley Stadium
1:17.3	and that's a record not just for the women but for the men too. And there were also at
1:22.9	its peak 17 million people watching the final on BBC television last night. Well today
1:29.0	is of course about celebration, but it's also about remembering how far the women's
1:34.7	game has come. The last time England won a major trophy, the World Cup, back in 1966,
1:42.0	women were still banned by the FA from playing football. Just let that sink in. It's extraordinary
1:48.9	that the Football Association banned women's football from most of the 20th century. In
1:54.7	1984 England reached the final of the first women's European Championship with little or
1:59.7	no funding and amateur players. The semis and the finals had home in a way legs so that
2:05.1	once the first match was over, players could go back to their day jobs for a few weeks
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