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The History of Women's Football, Hardback Book

The History of Women's Football Hardback

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A complete history of women's football, from its Victorian games beginning in 1881, to the plans for England to host the Euro Finals in England 2022, this book demonstrates how women's football began as a professional sport, and has only recently returned to these professional roots in the UK.

This is because there was a fifty-year Football Association 'ban' on women playing on pitches affiliated to the governing body in England.

The other British associations followed suit. Why was women's football banned in 1921? Why did it take until 1969 for a Women's Football Association to form?

Why did it take until 1995 for England to qualify for a Women's World Cup?

Answers to these key questions are supplemented across the chapters by personal accounts of the players who defied the ban, at home and abroad, along with the personal costs, and rewards, of being footballing pioneers.

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