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Football, She Wrote: An Anthology of Women's Writing on the Game by Ian Ridley, Charlotte Atyeo
elj_ne's review
emotional
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
4.25
Great collection of essays - my favourites were: Fran Kirby and grief, goalkeepers, mums united.
broomsreviews's review
informative
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
4.0
Like any football fan I remember going to my first game like it was yesterday. The excitement generated from walking through the turnstiles to see your team play is one of my favourite feelings. However all my memories are wrapped up in the men’s game and my club Leeds United. Until recently, women’s football and the women’s voice had been absent in my experiences.
Women’s football is not a new phenomenon as the media would have you believe. In fact, women’s leagues have worked tirelessly for recognition, starting with a campaign to overturn a ban on playing the game! Whilst reading this book I gained an insightful view into the history of women’s football and the strives taken towards equality in both playing and reporting.
I would highly recommend this book if you are curious about the women’s game and the women reporting on football as a whole. It is an insightful anthology of work and I hope the future is less misogynistic! Women know football too!
madameroyale's review
4.0
Great collection of essays. My favorites were by Suzanne Wrack, Katie Mishner, Jane Purdon, and Katie Whyatt. All of the other stories were quite good themselves, with the only glaring exception being "A Bunch of Fives", which was just a self-proclaimed fantasy football draft that... only featured male players? It felt extremely out of place, not helped by the fact that it was a list of statistics without narrative. At one point, the author made explicit reference to how "the woman's game deserves a tome of its own" and I wanted to shout This! This is the tome you could've contributed to! But that was really the only down note in the whole book; the rest was very well put-together and I'd definitely recommend it to anyone who enjoys sports writing (even if you don't have a big soccer background).
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