All posts by Steve Wright

George Orwell once famously warned that “If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever” and although it is to be hoped that the foot will eventually be lifted it feels like this premonition has come shockingly true for women’s football in the city of Nottingham in 2013. In the aftermath of the 2012 Olympics, during which the USA and Japan played out an exciting and competitive final that showed the potential of the game and Great Britain’s own ladies attracted more than 70,000 spectators to Wembley as they beat Brazil…