Category: Women’s football
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On this day: England women lose on penalties
Celebrating the anniversary of the first Final of the European Championship for Women 27 May 1984: England women’s national teams highest placing at a major tournament. Chaired by Alex Culvin, this session discusses England’s close defeat by Sweden in the Final of the inaugural Women’s Euros in 1984 with two England captains, Carol Thomas and…
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Football, players, contracts and COVID-19: The Perspective of an out of contract Professional Female Footballer during the Pandemic.
By Becky Easton Covid19 continues to cause unimaginable and irreparable suffering and damage to lives, families and communities across the globe. The world is a changed place, football and sport are insignificant entities right now, but they continue to be much discussed. Football, certainly in the UK, is a way of life for some, an…
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50 Years since Corinthian Nomads versus Dundalk Ladies (England v Ireland)
New FBC Session this Sunday – 10th May – join us for a 3pm Kick Off. In this event we will be celebrated 50 years since the Corinthian-Nomads Ladies Football Club from Manchester played Dundalk Ladies from County Louth in the Republic of Ireland met in Prestatyn, North Wales. This was a defacto international and the poster advertised the match…
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The FBC Sessions: Eleanor Drywoor, Francesca Champ and Beth Clarkson join Alex Culvin
Eleanor Drywoor, Francesca Champ and Beth Clarkson join Alex Culvin for a conversation on the current issues in football and society, including women’s football, equality, recruitment, football law and regulations, labour migration, player contracts, player welfare, football ownership, fan activism and much more! Also read the related commentary in Managing Sport & Leisure: Covid-19: Reflections…
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Unprecedented, uncharted and unrealistic: UEFA postpones EURO 2020 by 12 months
By Dr Daniel Parnell and Dr Paul Widdop On Tuesday 17th March UEFA announced the postponement of their flagship national team competition, EURO 2020, due to the ongoing and uncertain threat of the COVID-19 virus. The pan-European competition was scheduled for June and July in 2020 and will now be played in the corresponding months…
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Podcast: Discussing Football in Fiction with Lee McGowan
Stirling-born Lee McGowan is a Scots Irish football researcher at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Australia. His book Football in Fiction is among the first titles commissioned and published by the Collective’s Critical Research in Football series with Routledge. It’s a panoramic and exhaustive journey through the fiction literature about football in the…
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A hundred-year overnight success: the stories of women’s football in Australia
By Lee McGowan In a piece of not quite though still relatively shameless self-promotion, I write to highlight a new book, Never Say Die: the Hundred-Year Overnight Success of Australian Women’s Football and the living archive research project it has emerged from. They are not the first works on Australian women’s football – See A…
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Place of birth and talent development
By Dr Laura Finnegan Successful athletic development requires athletes to navigate a range of ‘secondary factors’ that can impede or facilitate development (Wattie, Schorer & Baker, 2018). One such factor appears to the population characteristics of where the athlete was born. Theories of development emphasise the importance of the synergistic relationship between environmental and individual…
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A WINTER OF DISCONTENT – time for equality of resources in the women’s game and the grassroots
By Dr Paul Breen @CharltonMen JOHN STEINBECK once said that “a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.” Though football history hasn’t always included herstory, women have been doing well in the game for decades. In…
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Football’s gender problem: from the pitch to the boardroom, women are still being blocked from the top jobs
Amée Gill, Durham University Although the world of English football has long been considered a man’s world, women now make up a sizeable proportion of football players and fans. But despite this, the football boardroom still remains a distinctly male domain. The Football Association (FA) released its first gender pay gap report in March 2018,…
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Changing the Narrative around Women and Football #FCGlasgow2018
Chris Macmillan, 4th Year UWS Sports Journalism. THE Football Collective 2018 conference is underway at Scotland’s national stadium and promises two days of academic insight into every form of football. The theme for the conference at Hampden Park is that of ‘challenging the narrative’, and in line with such a theme, the conference was opened…
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The Darkest of Days for Fans of Leicester City
By Stacey Pope On the evening of Saturday 27th October, Leicester City owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha’s helicopter crashed and exploded just outside the stadium. What should have been an ordinary day of football turned into the most devastating and horrific event in Leicester City Football Club’s history. Destined to become a tragic, ‘Where were you…
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with the ball at Her feet: a living history of Brisbane Women’s Football
By Lee McGowan On September 25, 1921, 10,000 people watched two women’s teams play football at the Brisbane Cricket Ground, or the Gabba, a venue now famous for Ashes Tests. The crowd is nowhere near as spectacular as those turning up to watch the Dick, Kerr Ladies during the same period, but this match is…
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Elite Female Football in England: How ‘do’ they do it?
By Alexandra Culvin In this post, Alex provides an insight into her PhD research, which seeks to examine women’s experiences of working as a professional footballer in the UK. The purpose of my research is to explore how women negotiate their identity and place in the occupational setting of the football industry. The information uncovered will…
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PhD Opportunity: Women working in leadership positions in men’s professional football in England
We are pleased to promote a very exciting PhD opportunity on behalf of Football Collective member Dr Stacey Pope. The details of the PhD position: Women in a ‘Man’s World’: A Study of Women Working in Leadership Positions in Men’s Professional Football in England, are provided below and you can download the here. Durham University…
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