Women’s Football
Short History Of...
00:00
The Power of the FA to Stymie Women's Football in the UK
The power of the FA to stymie the women's game in the UK is absolute. The initial women's rights, hard won by those famed suffragettes, have come nowhere near far enough to allow them to fight back. Games are pushed onto rugby pitches, village greens or even waste grounds,. where spectators cannot attend. Passion for the sport keeps the teams playing, but it's on such a small scale that women's football seems to disappear completely. And if the blanket FA ban wasn't enough, its local branches make things even harder. Despite their popularity abroad, there's no change to the FA's stance. It effectively buries official women's football in the UK and marks the
Play episode from 28:08
Transcript
