It’s a shame that England didn’t win, but then it is also a shame that for most of the last century, women weren’t allowed to play football at all.
The Lionesses may not have won the World Cup… this time. But it hardly matters, really, when you consider how far they have come, and how much they have done to change the perception of women’s football in the UK in the last year or so.
It was banned in Wales just a few months later, following complaints from the church, and in the following decade, Spain put a stop to it, saying that football “demanded qualities that were diametrically opposed to those of the women’s bodily constitution.” England players pose with their second place medals at the end of the Women’s World Cup soccer final on Sunday.However, this was hardly the beginning of a golden era for females in football. Indeed, as money poured into the premiership in huge sums during the Nineties, attitudes towards women only got worse. Barely a season would go by without a prominent England footballer being caught in an orgy or a ‘roasting’ scandal.
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