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Short History Of...

Women’s Football

Short History Of...

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4.74.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Football is the most popular sport in the world, and is played anywhere from pitches marked out in desert dust, to warzones with helmets for goalposts. But it’s still predominantly a male sport. So what about the roots of women’s football in the UK? How did social change in the First World War contribute to its sudden growth? And after a catastrophic ban from the FA in 1921, how did the women’s game rise from the ashes? This is a Short History of Women’s Football. Written by Lindsay Galvin. With thanks to Jean Williams, author and professor of sports history. EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/shorthistory Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! For ad-free listening, exclusive content and early access to new episodes, join Noiser+. Now available for Apple and Android users. Click the Noiser+ banner on Apple or go to noiser.com/subscriptions to get started with a 7-day free trial. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Sometimes in life, you gotta go big, and nowhere goes bigger than Dubai.

0:09.0

A city-sized playground in a vast desert, where the tallest building in the world dwarfs

0:14.2

super-sized superyots, and there's no end to high-end shops.

0:21.0

So go big, go bold, go beautiful, and fly to Dubai with Virgin Atlantic, book now.

0:31.0

It is late December 1920, outside Goodeson Park, Everton.

0:38.0

This stadium is nestled in the terraced streets of the city of Liverpool, in northwest England.

0:44.0

Pouring out of the station on mass, the boxing day football supporters are cheerful

0:48.0

if a little blurry after the Christmas festivities.

0:52.0

A young girl grips her father's hand tight through a double layer of mittens.

0:59.0

Excitement bubbles in her stomach. She's never been to a stadium this huge,

1:04.0

but she's also a little nervous, as she knows a lot of noise makes her dad jumpy,

1:09.0

since he got back from the war.

1:12.0

But he does love football, and he's come here today for her, and to support her favourite team

1:16.0

from the Dick Kerr factory, where her mum helped make munitions.

1:21.0

The Dick Kerr ladies are now playing games almost every weekend for charity.

1:26.0

Today they are playing St Helen's ladies.

1:31.0

Hawkers call out across the excited crowds, and the girl's father pauses to buy something.

1:36.0

He presses a hot paper twist of roasted chestnuts into her hand, before they carry on towards the gates.

1:43.0

She peels one, and pops it in her mouth, then wraps her new scarf back around her chin,

1:48.0

showing off the black and white straps of her team.

1:52.0

Soon, the walls of the stadium are looming over them. They've arrived.

1:57.0

The crowd slows ahead of the turnstiles, as people merge from all directions.

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