If the history of women’s football in the UK were made into a film, it might resemble a dramatic story: a powerful, confident new train racing forward, while anxious railway executives, threatened by this emerging force, desperately try to tear up the tracks ahead.

Join Phil Vasili as he discusses the rise of women’s football, the fifty year suppression and re-emergence as the epitome of ‘the beautiful game’. Phil, who has Phil Vasili has been researching and writing about the history of football since the 1980s, will examine the factors behind the rise and success of women’s football in the UK, highlighting the remarkable achievements of England’s Lionesses.