I have a couple of new heroes
I feel horribly ignorant, but I must admit that it never even occurred to me that there was a time when women couldn't run. I mean, it sounds ridiculous doesn't it? But within my own lifetime, I've found out that women were simply not allowed to run more than 1500 metres at the Olympics. I still can't quite wrap my head around it. And that
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Seriously, me neither.
I had no idea about any of this, so thank you for an enlightening run-down (no pun intended, but hey).
There was a fascinating programme on radio 4 some weeks ago about women's football in the first part of the century. It was huge and attracted crowds of tens of thousands, and the FA basically destroyed it by creating rules to stop it being played. Totally deliberately. The unbelievable bastards.
Ooh, the programme is on Listen Again: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b038hj3p and the women's football bit is the very first segment. There's a wander off into current football, and then at 7:30 we're back for a three-minute segment on the early 20th century which is fascinating.
Go you! Run! I shall cheer you on!
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