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The Untold Stories of Women Football Fans: celebrating memories, calling out prejudice

By Stacey Pope, Professor in the Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences, Durham University

It’s one of the clearest things about me. I’m black and white … I think I cried for a month when we lost the FA Cup Final in 1974. I was only ten and it was near my birthday as well. I was absolutely gutted. [Jo, Newcastle fan since the 1970s]

Sexism in football, according to a recent BBC report is “a problem that isn’t going away”. When working on my bookThe Conversation


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