Women footballers should remain outside of the pitch?

Most winter months come knocking, and for the majority of women in Britain, it is likely to be found trawling cables tradeshows in the country and squeezing their feet into the latest patent leather Stiletto shoe, with the hope that it agrees with the sparkly outfits purchased just for the annual office Christmas party.

This scenario will ring true for hundreds of women. But not every woman in Britain owning a Topshop card loyalty and faint if asked to live without Mascara for one week. There are always of course, women will get down the pub, proudly wearing their favorite team's Strip, Pint of lager in hand, bellowing loudly against the Tv screen.

Football, especially in the United Kingdom, has always been associated with men and masculinity. When we think of football, we are unlikely to create an image of eleven femme fatale of running around a field, fabulous hair flowing in the wind. (Although, of course, this will never happen, of course, will be-hair tied, but go with the image)

However, there is no doubt that Football is widely regarded as the game man. A beautiful game, of course, but man one nonetheless. In the past statistics showed that the number of women playing team sports as a professional full time in the United Kingdom is zero. But with the growing quantity of women's football players and groups of ladies, could always be set to change?

Vicki Christopher, Captain of the women's football team at the University of Winchester, considers that this is certainly the case.

Says: "women's football is certainly concerning. In recent years our University football team grew in numbers significantly. This is used in the case at school where boys played football and girls played Netball. But today, school children have a much better balance of sports. "

Maureen McGonigle by Scottish women's football has a similar view. Believes that although it has a lot of catching up to the same equal rights with men, women's soccer now increasingly recognized worldwide as the fastest growing team sport for women.

"This increases constantly. Women's soccer offers many opportunities for everyone, either as an arbitrator, a coach or even a administrate. Someone once said that "the future is feminine, and this confirms the belief held by many who have watched the phenomenal growth of the game for women and girls."

But when it was all started? Believe it or not, women have the kick a ball around a pitch for almost a century. First became popular on a large scale at the time of the first world war, circa 1917.

The roles of women began to change as received in the jobs and responsibilities that always previously paid by men. Time of war, women's groups were usually in order to put money for war charities.

The most successful team this season was Dick Kerrs gentlemen of Preston. Played on average crowds of 2500 with all proceeds going towards charitable causes.

By the end of the war, the number of female groups had increased throughout the country, attracting a generous-sized crowds, and by the 1920 's, it was more popular than ever, with even greater than in men's soccer games crowd sizes women in England.

Ironically, it was this that led to the decline of women's soccer? shortly afterwards the FA decided to prohibit women from playing football in Football League grounds, arguing that Fund the s they were reared in fact being used for other purposes.

However, according to the center of Sir Norman Chester Football research at the University of Leicester, in the true sense of the prohibition found in the Declaration of assets was "strong opinion that the game of football is totally inappropriate for female and should not be encouraged.
The Fixed unauthorised reasons that will be used for the games of women. The ban was not abandoned until 1969, during which women's football was almost faded into oblivion. After the women FA was founded in 1969, women's football was well looked actually increased. The first women's World Cup, held in China in 1991 highlighted this fact, and since then has developed exponentionally, sixteen teams from around the world representing their countries. So if women's football is on the up, that certainly seems to be the case, because then women toys rare feature on programs such as the match of the day and Soccer AM? Certainly dramas like TV and dream team football women soccer was focused on women. It seems that even in this so called modern times, men still prevailing. Caz o' Shaughnessy, the management of women's football team at the University of Lincoln agrees: "women are a minority. There may be more than us in quantity but men have the power that makes majority. "

Now I'm pretty sure the reason for this is not as black and white as men look best in shorts, therefore, be better footballers. Hard as it sounds, this goes back to what was written in stone for centuries-that the position of women should be at home and not out on the soccer field, playing a "man's game"? Caz o' Shaughnessy believes that this is a stereotype that will never change no matter how hard women push for this: "history has always placed men nourish with women at home looking after kids. We will try hard to separate these stereotypes and ideologies are set so that it will never be altered. " Sports journalist Chris Ray disagrees with this, and believes that there is now much more national media coverage of women in the game than ever, profiting very: "women's football could be greater than men's one a day. Entries are up and stereotypes that are simply a man of the game is gone, but now I have to say. The standard will continue to improve as the public and young people are becoming increasingly aware of women's football. "