In 1921, the English Football Association effectively banned women's football - but how did the sport get to that point?
See the bonus podcast on this topic ('001 - bonus history chat') for a full talk about sources, but a list of sources used:
Sources
Academic work:
Jean Williams, ‘An equality too far? Historical and contemporary perspectives of gender inequality in British and international football’, Historical Social Research, 31, no. 1 (2006), pp. 151-169
Rob Lewis, ‘‘Our Lady Specialists at Pikes Lane’: female spectators in early English professional football, 1880-1914’, The International Journal of the History of Sport, 26, no. 15 (2009), pp. 2161-2181
Robert William Lewis, ‘The female football spectator in England, 1870-1914: a Flaneuse made visible?’, Soccer & Society, 21, no. 2 (2020), pp. 121-136
For the Football Field being published in Bolton see The Encyclopedia of British Football [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=JKbb02bg6zYC&pg=PA237&lpg=PA237&dq=the+football+field+and+sports+telegram&source=bl&ots=pKJ02v3odM&sig=ACfU3U39WLYyNzru2K9qDduOmCVoGW51pQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj-x5PypeDoAhV0kFwKHY7EDKQQ6AEwDnoECAoQOA#v=onepage&q=the%20football%20field%20and%20sports%20telegram&f=false, accessed: 11 April 2020]
James F. Lee, ‘The Lady Footballers and the British Press, 1895’, Critical Survey, 24, no. 1 (2012), pp. 88-101.
Alethea Melling, ‘’Plucky lasses’, ‘pea soup’ and politics: the role of ladies’ football during the 1921 miners’ lock-out in Wigan and Leith’, The International Journal of the History of Sport, 16, no. 1 (1999), pp. 38-64.
Lisa Jenkel, ‘The F.A.’s ban on women’s football 1921 in the contemporary press – a historical discourse analysis’, Sport in History, (2020), pp. 1-21
Jessica Macbeth, ‘The development of women’s football in Scotland’, Sports Historian, 22, no. 2 (2002), pp. 149-163.
British Newspaper Archive:
Preston Herald
Lancashire Evening Post
Edinburgh Evening News
Dundee Evening Telegraph
Aberdeen Evening Express
North British Daily Mail
Glasgow Evening Post
Web pages/reference sites/wiki:
FIFA, https://static.fifa.com/about-fifa/who-we-are/the-game/index.html
‘Association football’, Wikipedia
‘1872 Scotland v England football match’, Wikipedia
‘Helen Matthews’, Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Matthews
Mary Hutson from FIFA https://www.fifa.com/womens-football/news/from-honeyball-houghton-2204023 respectively
FIFPro site, https://fifpro.org/en/industry/covid-19-implications-for-women-s-football, and Covid-19 paper itself available: https://fifpro.org/media/zp3izxhc/fifpro-wf-covid19-new.pdf
