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2019 will go down as the year that Women’s football finally came into the public spotlight. The Women’s World Cup was a major success, drawing a viewership of 1.2 billion over the tournament, the final between the USA and Netherlands topped out at 264 million unique viewers, a figure that was up 56% from the previousContinue reading “COVID-19 is killing Women’s football”

Following the pushback of the men’s Euros 2020 competition to the following summer, we have also seen the women’s competition be delayed from 2021 to 2022. Although many people may see this as the women’s competition being an afterthought with it having to make way for the men’s competition, I believe it will actually beContinue reading “Lionesses will benefit from Euro 2021 delay”

Arsenal Ladies Quadruple winning season 2006/07 Since their inception in 1987 no women’s side has been more successful than Arsenal, both in terms of on field dominance and bringing eyes to the women’s game. No more was this true than in the defining season in 2006/07, in which the team won every single competition availableContinue reading “The Unstoppables”

Imagine you sit down to watch the World Cup, Argentina vs Portugal are scheduled to play, however there is something wrong, there is no sign of Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo because they have taken a stance not to feature in the biggest sporting competition on the planet. It is impossible to imagine, however, overContinue reading “How is the best female footballer not at the World Cup?”

British Asians make up 7% of the UK’s population, despite this only 11 have played football as a professional in the country. This was a fact that shocked me and was one of the main reasons as to why I wanted to explore these under represented groups in football. If you go down to yourContinue reading “Why are the so few British Asian players?”

On the 2nd May 1998 a hanging body was discovered in a Shoreditch garage, the body was that of Britain’s first openly gay footballer, Justin Fashanu. If you are from my generation and younger, you are unlikely to have heard of Justin Fashanu, this was the case for me before I conducted research for myContinue reading “The Case of Justin Fashanu”

The topic of trans participation in sport is one that is extremely relevant at the moment, with people such as cyclist Rachel Mckinnon, tennis player Renée Richards, triathlete Caitlyn Jenner being some of the more notable trans athletes. At the moment the topic of discussion is whether MTF (male to female) people should be allowedContinue reading “What can we do to make fair opportunities for Transgender athletes?”

When looking for examples of sports that have a big LGBT community in them, outside of specific LGBT teams, it was difficult to find many examples unless it is focused on one person. I decided to look at Gareth Thomas from the LGBT community and how the rugby world responded to him when he cameContinue reading “What can Football learn from other sports and athletes in LGBT representation?”