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Ray of the Rovers and other inspiring female football players in comic strips
AS MEN’S grip on the levers of power began began to be loosened by the Representation of the People Act 1918, which gave the vote to property-owning women aged over 30, so their dominance of the football pitch was also being challenged.
The Dick Kerr’s Ladies are perhaps the most well-known team of the era, famously playing St Helen’s Ladies in front of a sell-out 58,000 on Christmas Day 1920, but they were by no means alone.
This huge popularity of women’s football was reflected in a series of comic book stories based around female players, one of which, believe it or not, was called Ray of the Rovers.
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