Listening to "The Reunion" on Radio 4 just now I realised that it was obviously because football was still forbidden for girls and women in those days. This was a question I asked in this thread:
www.gransnet.com/forums/sport/1294515-Kicking-a-ball
It is ironic that women were refused the right to play football just when they had got the vote. It would seem that, in a way, women in Victorian times had more freedoms!
The radio programme is interesting, and the recordings of press coverage back in the 1970s is totally cringeworthy. You should hear the questions the reporters asked the players. The women who pioneered the sport in those days did as much for women's emancipation as those who campaigned in the political arena. Have a listen and see what you think.
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