Clare McEwen

@claremcwrites.bsky.social

Author of She Can Kick It - the fast-paced, easy-read history of women's football. Substack: https://theaccidentalcoach.substack.com 📚 https://shecankickit.com/book TNWSM: thenewwomenssportmagazine.com

If you've not looked already (or forgotten because ..you know....life), take a look at The New Women's Sport Magazine now (or later, your call really 😁). We have Commonwealth Games, cricket, football, art and tennis - and that's only our front page! thenewwomenssportmagazine.com

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If you build it they will come. All about all women's sport. All the time.

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Helen Jerome@helenjerome.bsky.social · 2w ago

👀 It's high time you checked out what we're doing @newwomenssportmag.bsky.social - with our front page currently featuring in-depth stories on #swimming 🏊‍♀️ #cricket 🏏 #tennis 🎾 #football ⚽ and the imminent Commonwealth Games aka #Glasgow2026. 👇 thenewwomenssportmagazine.com

I really enjoyed speaking to Imy Saunders from Bloomsbury and Keegan Pierce from LALIGA about their partnership. What an amazing environment they're providing for girls and boys. #grassrootsfootball

TNWSM@newwomenssportmag.bsky.social · 3w ago

Bloomsbury Football Foundation & LaLiga are building opportunities and a strong community for girls in London. @claremcwrites.bsky.social learns more about their Girls' Tournament, their partnership, and what the girls get out of it. thenewwomenssportmagazine.com/spanish-magi... #youthfootball

The Manchester Corinthians played in front of 50,000 people in Europe and South America in the 1950s. At home they played at a local park in front of about 6 people, and washed in buckets of water afterwards. That's what fifty years of the FA's ban actually looked like. payhip.com/b/znYmk

The 1921 Ban as Cultural Erasure: The Women's Football History They Tried to Bury

In 1920, 53,000 people watched a women's football match at Goodison Park. At the time, it was the biggest crowd ever recorded at a football match.A year later, the Football Association banned women…

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The 1921 ban didn't just remove women from pitches. It removed the idea that football could belong to girls. Generations grew up with no way of knowing stadiums had once been filled for women's football. That absence compounds. It still impacts now. Full piece: payhip.com/b/znYmk - £7.99

The 1921 Ban as Cultural Erasure: The Women's Football History They Tried to Bury

In 1920, 53,000 people watched a women's football match at Goodison Park. At the time, it was the biggest crowd ever recorded at a football match.A year later, the Football Association banned women…

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The FA. 5 December 1921: "The Council are of the opinion that the game of football is quite unsuitable for females and should not be encouraged." A year earlier, 53,000 people had watched women play at Goodison Park. Make it make sense.

Shoutout to New Zealand's Tyler Bindon — he's the first-ever World Cup player whose MOM played at a World Cup. American-born Jenny Bindon represented NZL at multiple Women's World Cups & Olympics — after she had given birth to Tyler.