Worth A Watch - The Story Of Women's Football In Coventry

Last updated : 21 July 2015 By Covsupport News Service

Worth A Watch is the video produced by Eyefull Productions about the story of Women's Football In Coventry.

This film came from a Heritage project on Coventry which explored the role of factory girls/munitionettes during WW1. There was an extraordinary emergence of women's football in WW1, played by the girls who came to work in the factories. Some matches were attracting crowds of over 25,000 spectators. But after the war, with women expected to shrink back to the kitchens and home life, the FA in its wisdom, banned women's football. Their decision in 1921 effectively ended the progress of the womens game until the 70s - fifty years later.

To see this please click on https://vimeo.com/131754324