WOMEN AND BEER

I was travelling through the "borderlands yesterday", yes that bit between the West Midlands and Wales, so I never had time to write last night (I was at the Old Charterhouse in London where the Carthusians first played their "mob" game of football).

On December 5th 1921, the FA thought about women and football and decided that they should not play the game; after all it was the invention of the FA, which at the time most certainly would have been an all male affair. So NA na nya na.
The stiff shirted FA gentlemen actually couldn't stop women from running around with a football, but they could ban any FA member club from hosting a women's match. So they did and that ban was not lifted until 1971. All those wasted years.

If you more on women and soccer then have a look at this lot:
https://baileyfootballblog.blogspot.com/2017/07/dickladies-and-co.html

On this same day in 2005 Paul Gascoigne was relieved of his managerial duties at Northern Conference side Kettering Town. He has overseen two wins, two draws and two losses in the first six games of his reign, but it wasn't the points that upset the committee, it was the PINTS! Yes they sacked him for drinking too much. No duty of care there then? It was worth a book though.