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Max, Barry, Suzy and Flo discuss the final of the first official Women’s World Cup – which, initially, wasn’t the Women’s World Cup – and talk about where it fits in the development of women’s football, and what the future holds given the instability that Covid-19 has exposed within the game.

We end the pod with chapter five of Detective Wilson, as imagined by actor and screenwriter Jamie Biddle.

Back on Thursday.

PS: unfortunately our show in Leeds has been rescheduled – it will now be taking place on 17 September. We will, of course, keep you updated if things change further.





Michelle Akers-Stahl (C) who scored two goals for the US to win the first FIFA World Championship for Women's Football on November 30, 1991, holds the trophy together with teammates Julie Foudy (L) and Carin Jennings (R). The US won the championship by beating Norway 2-1. The FIFA Women's World Cup is recognized as the most important International competition in women's football and is played amongst women's national football teams of the member states of FIFA. Contested every four years, the first Women's World Cup tournament, named the Women's World Championship, was held in 1991, sixty-one years after the men's first FIFA World Cup tournament in 1930AFP PHOTO TOMMY CHENG (Photo credit should read TOMMY CHENG/AFP/Getty Images)





Photograph: Tommy Cheng/AFP/Getty Images

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