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aeolianblues reblogged
aeolianblues reblogged
Now I hate sports. Football especially. But I have just sat and watched the women's final with tears in my eyes and hope in my heart. This is going to be incredible for young women and girls everywhere. How many young girls will grow up watching women play the sport they love because of this. We've come so far in a hundred years. Yes we've still got so far to go. But look back at the banning of women's football after WW1 to now it being watched all over the country.
Lily Parr would be proud!
#We’ve come so far in the last 5 years alone with women’s sports: televisation; double headers with men’s matches#Just the general increase in LOUD support for the women’s game#Different sport but we’ve come from people like my granddad openly saying ‘it can’t be helped; the ladies’ game is just not as exciting’#-> to his granddaughter; a training medium-fast bowler.#We went from there to the double-header T20 World Cup in 2016/17(?)#We went from the first televised women’s cricket matches#I went from covering them through a team of one (1) person updating scoresheets to seeing actual written commentary. To then seeing matches#TELEVISED.#To seeing people showing up ‘early’ to the men’s games and ending up catching nailbiting finishes in the women’s daytime matches#To following the teams. KNOWING THE PLAYERS NAMES. beginning to talk less about the shorter boundary line and more about their batting#Style#I’ve seen crowds getting bigger; I’ve seen the sponsorship deals come in. I’ve seen this girls finally have a brand sticker on their bats!#I’ve seen the viewership break the 10 million mark!!#Somewhere along the way things started to change in football too#The women’s leagues beginning to get more coverage; sponsorships; *positive* PR for a change#Maybe to an extent people wanting to go out more ‘post’ lockdown. It’s incredible to see how far they’ve come!!#All this change in just five years. Never tell me it can’t be done in such a short time!!!#(Sorry long tags/delighted sports rant)#Oh women’s athletics coverage also probably played a huge hand here but I’m not knowledgeable enough to elaborate on it#Sports#womens football#(and much more)