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Acclaimed author Carrie Dunn, one of the most respected voices in
women’s football, brings us a unique insight into a fast-growing
and massively popular sport at a crucial moment. This is the third
book in Dunn’s popular series exploring the women’s football
pyramid. The Lionesses' famous triumph, beating old rivals Germany
at Wembley to become European champions, gave them a platform to
call on the world to do better when it comes to women's football
– to give girls equal opportunities to boys, and to lift up
inspiring female role models. But was it too little too late? While
Women's Super League matches sold out if they could guarantee a
gold-medal-winning Lioness, the rest of the pyramid still had their
own challenges to face. From training pitches to home stadia, from
sponsorship to electricity bills, women all over England continued
to fight a battle that had been going on for more than a century
– to be treated as footballers, not second-class citizens. This
is the story of the season after the summer before.
Women's football is the fastest growing participation sport in both
the UK and across the world, and the 2015 Women's World Cup was the
biggest tournament the sport had ever seen. This book explores the
experience of fans of women's football who followed their teams in
Canada, examining their practices and fan behaviour. How did host
cities manage the influx of visitors? And how did fans manage to
support their teams, considering the vast amounts of travel
expected across such a big country? Dunn also examines the way that
the England team is structured and run, relating this to the
country's domestic competition, as well as assessing the media
coverage of women's football globally. This research is all framed
within the author's own experiences of the Women's World Cup, as
both an academic and as a sports journalist.
Millions watched the 2015 Women's World Cup as the England
Lionesses roared in Canada, winning bronze. Their fighting spirit
and fabulous skill captured the fascination of the entire country
as their campaign unfolded in the small hours of the 2015 summer
mornings. On the back of this success, attendances in the FA
Women's Super League increased, as interest in women's football
accelerated. Top stars talked enthusiastically about the dawn of a
new era for women's football. Carrie Dunn spent a year following
some of the most famous - and not so famous - female footballers in
the country, to see what the future holds for women's football. Can
the smaller, lower-profile teams ever compete with the big bucks
and big names of the Women's Super League? How are grassroots clubs
going to rise to the top when elite divisions of women's football
depend on the award of licences? Can the women win a World Cup
before the men do? And if they do, what reward and recognition will
they get? Roar of the Lionesses tells the tale of an increasingly
popular, yet still woefully underrepresented sport.
Discover the origins of the Lionesses that brought football home.
England's Lionesses are on the front and back pages; their stars
feature on prime-time television; they are named in the national
honours lists for their contribution to their sport and to society.
The names of Lucy Bronze, Steph Houghton and Ellen White are
emblazoned across the backs of children's replica jerseys. These
women are top athletes - and top celebrities. But in 1921, the
Football Association introduced a ban on women's football,
pronouncing the sport 'quite unsuitable for females'. That ban
would last for half a century - but despite official prohibition
the women's game went underground. From the Dick, Kerr Ladies
touring the world to the Lost Lionesses who played at the
unsanctioned Women's World Cup in Mexico in 1971, generations of
women defied the restrictions and laid the foundations for today's
Lionesses - so much so that in 2018 England's Women's Super League
became the first fully professional league in Europe...when just a
few decades previously women were forbidden to play the sport in
England at all. This book tells the story of women's football in
England since its 19th-century inception through pen portraits of
its trailblazers. The game might have once been banned because of
its popularity - find out about the subversive women who kept
organising their teams and matches despite the prohibition, who
broke barriers and set records - the legends of the game who built
the foundations of the stage upon which today's stars flourish. 'At
what feels like a pivotal moment, Carrie's forensic research and
depth of knowledge make her the perfect person to guide us through
the constantly changing landscape of women's football' - Kelly
Cates, TV presenter
The sequel to The Roar of the Lionesses - named one of The
Guardian's best sports books of 2016. England's Lionesses headed to
France for the 2019 Women's World Cup endeavouring to improve on
their third-place finish in Canada four years previously. But they
didn't have the easiest of preparations, with dramas and headlines
emerging for all the wrong reasons. Back home, FA upheavals brought
yet another restructure of competition in women's football. The top
flights switched back to a winter season, and now all the elite
teams had to employ players on a full-time professional basis.
While the superstars went in search of spectacular silverware, the
goalposts were being moved for pros, part-timers and amateurs
alike. Even women playing football for fun were forced to consider
their place in the system. Carrie Dunn's Pride of the Lionesses
offers a timely inside analysis of one of the UK's fastest-growing
sports. Is women's football in England actually growing from top to
bottom - or is it just another slick PR campaign?
In 1933, at the age of 15, George Dunn left the small Welsh mining
village of Blaina for St Albans in Hertfordshire as part of the
government's Labour Exchange Scheme. After marrying a local girl,
he was conscripted into the Royal Engineers during the Second World
War, and was part of the Dunkirk Evacuation in 1940. Now aged 92,
he has seen three generations of his family grow up in
Hertfordshire. This is the story of his life - from Wales to St
Albans to active service and home again to Hertfordshire - with
reflections on how life in the twentieth- and twenty-first century
has changed. In this poignant book, the author shares vivid
memories of his life in Hertfordshire and his wartime experiences.
From touching recollections of enjoyable days spent with loved ones
to the dark moments of falling bombs, this is an honest account of
one man's life. Together with rare images, this book is a personal
and moving story.
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