4.7 • 709 Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2019
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Mark chats to Scotland's pioneering female footballers who changed the women's game.
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0:27.5 | BBC Radio Scotland. |
0:30.0 | Today we've got something slightly different for you. |
0:32.5 | As you probably know, myself and my colleague Ewan McElwraith present a radio program called Out of Doors and we look at stuff that happens outside in Scotland, hence the Scotland Outdoors podcast. |
0:42.2 | But I also do a social history series called Our Story. |
0:46.4 | And it crossed my mind that you might find this interesting. |
0:49.9 | Yesterday, the Scottish Football Association, the SFA, capped several players who'd taken part in a home international between England and Scotland. |
0:58.2 | Now, nothing terribly unusual about that, except this match happened in 1972. |
1:04.5 | And the players were all women. |
1:07.0 | It dates back to a time when not only was women's football in Scotland not recognised, the authorities were doing absolutely everything in their power to try and stop it happening in the first place. |
1:18.4 | I know nothing about football. |
1:20.5 | What I know about football, you could write in the back of a postage stamp, and I found this absolutely fascinating. |
1:25.6 | The women were inspiring, their passion, their determination, their sheer guts. |
1:31.2 | I hope, I'm sure, you'll enjoy meeting them. |
1:35.5 | Football was a man's game. |
1:36.9 | The women should be in the kitchen at the sink. |
1:38.7 | It's the attitude of most men that I've met. |
1:41.5 | We were getting looked down on in Scotland, |
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