07:13 AM
11/21/24
11/21/24
June 03, 2005
When women's soccer was better than men's.: Read how women workers in a 1920s English guns'n'ammo factory (and from elsewhere) played soccer, drew large crowds, beat men's teams, raised money for charities, then got "shut down" by the (men's) FA.
posted by worldcup2002 to soccer at 01:31 PM - 3 comments
Interesting stuff, wc. Thanks for the link. More info can be found here, here, and here, and there was apparently a book written about the team (although Powell's doesn't have it, so it must not have been available in North America).
posted by Ufez Jones at 06:17 PM on June 03, 2005
thats cool,kinda like the womens baseball in the us during the war.
posted by HOE.O.K. at 02:39 PM on June 04, 2005
Yeah right...