To commemorate International Women’s Day I’ve been involved with a couple of things. One is Steve Bolton’s Guest Blog on a Manchester women’s team from the 1940s & 1950s – part two is available on Friday; part one is available here:
Guest Blog – Steve Bolton: The Pioneering Manchester Ladies Part One
The other item is an episode of the TV show Premier League World. If you have access to the Premier League World then the current episode (broadcast in UK on 3rd March at 11pm) includes the piece. Episode 38 focuses on women and football.
I helped the programme with a feature on the Manchester City Women’s team. This is a positive piece on the history of the club and includes interviews with myself, Steph Houghton, Lucy Bronze and Gareth Taylor.
If you’ve got Amazon Prime then you can also download it now. It’s episode 38 and the piece starts after 18 minutes:
Premier League World is available around the globe so please check your own TV listings. Here in the UK the show will appear on Amazon Prime, Sky Sports and BT Sport with the following times for Sky & BT:
BT Sport 3 Thursday 10:30pm
BT Sport 1 Friday 3pm
BT Sport 1 Sunday 8:30am
BT Sport 1 Monday 12pm
BT Sport 1 Tuesday 12:30am
Sky Sports Premier League Today 11pm
Sky Sports Mix Today 11pm
Sky Sports Premier League Thursday 5pm
Sky Sports Premier League Friday 3pm
Sky Sports Premier League Saturday 8am
The feature is the last one shown in the programme, so please keep watching to the end. The piece starts after about 18 minutes).
The book that we flick through is my book on the team: Manchester City Women: An Oral History. It tells the story of the club from its birth and can be bought here:
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To find out more about the history of City Women have a look at:
https://gjfootballarchive.com/2021/01/24/manchester-citys-womens-team-the-relaunch/
And:
Establishing women in sports history: Manchester City Football Club
Check out other material on women’s football here:
https://gjfootballarchive.com/category/womens-football-2/
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