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The conspiracy against women’s football

2 July 2022

9:00 AM

2 July 2022

9:00 AM

A Woman’s Game: The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Women’s Football Suzanne Wrack

Guardian Faber, pp.250, 14.99

The moment before the fall of women’s football can be precisely dated. On Boxing Day 1920, Dick, Kerr Ladies FC beat St Helens 4-0 at Everton’s Goodison Park in front of 53,000 paying spectators, a sellout crowd.

That was too much for the men at the Football Association. Hysterical at the sight of women running about as they liked and scared of competition from the female game, they banned it a year later.

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