There are now women working within the game at almost every level apart from team management. Anne Coddington spoke to several who have made football their full-time career
This year’s Carling Report provided the clearest view yet obtained that growing numbers of women are following football. Thirteen percent of supporters are now women and of the fans who started watching football regularly since the change to all-seater stadia five years ago, women represent one in four.
Sarah Gilmore looks at the reasons for the marked increase in the number of women writing and reporting on football in recent times, and the hurdles they still have to overcome
Over the past few years we have seen an explosion of women writing, editing and presenting on football. They seem to have come from nowhere and arrived at the top of their professions, giving their views with authority.
Owen Davies argues that borrowing a different idea from Europe might prove a lifeline for Cardiff City
The cat was barely out of the bag before the FA of Wales was trying to beat it to death. “We will oppose the plan even if it means Premiership football coming to Cardiff.” God forbid that quality football should threaten the reign of mediocrity in South Wales.
Lance Bellers remembers Harry Cripps, who passed away on December 29, 1995
’Arry Cripps was the best player ever to have a name beginning with an apostrophe. Born as Henry Richard Cripps in Norfolk during the war, it merely took a move to East London to give him his proper and rightful name. Kicking off his football career at West Ham, he played just one senior game for the Hammers – against Millwall. Between that Southern Floodlit Cup fixture in 1956 and an eventual move to Charlton in 1974, ’Arry Boy fitted in 447 appearances for the Lions and won the hearts of the Millwall faithful.