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When Football Banned Women

suzisausage
suzisausage Posts: 11,502
in Other Football and Sports
Anyone watching the documentary on 4 now?

Fascinating stuff. Never realised how popular it was until it was banned in 1921 by the FA based on complete nonsense.

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  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 32,033
    I wish they would ban at least one woman.
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,594
    se9addick said:

    I wish they would ban at least one woman.

    Curb it doesn't go much now anyway.
  • Weegie Addick
    Weegie Addick Posts: 16,520
    Fascinating programme, though I feel it could have dug a bit deeper into the reasons for the ban. I set up a women's team at university in 1980s and remember all sorts of admin hoops re registering players and signing conditions that we would not play in mixed matches. Had no idea the ban had only been lifted a few years earlier.
  • NomadicAddick
    NomadicAddick Posts: 2,114
    Eeeee, those wert days!
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,781
    suzisausage said:

    Anyone watching the documentary on 4 now?

    Fascinating stuff. Never realised how popular it was until it was banned in 1921 by the FA based on complete nonsense.

    I didn't watch this but I saw a similar programme about twenty years ago. The mindset hasn't gone away, it's just migrated to Twitter where it rages about Jodie Whittaker becoming the Doctor.
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,651
    Very interesting programme.

    Might be of interest to @JamesSeed given that his Great Aunt Minnie was a distinguished performer in that era up to 1921.
  • JamesSeed
    JamesSeed Posts: 17,380
    Ah, sorry for the message. I clicked on your photo rather than the message.
    Yes, Minnie Seed was a bit of a legend. I have a database of the matches she was in, but little other info, other than she married and had a child. She died young (in her 50s) unfortunately.

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