tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6165780438929797577.post1757713746008869489..comments2024-03-21T00:30:32.509-07:00Comments on From A Left Wing: The Weight of History: Great Britain & Brazil play at WembleyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6165780438929797577.post-79948489191551124952012-08-05T19:42:34.080-07:002012-08-05T19:42:34.080-07:00I KNEW IT! Thank you!I KNEW IT! Thank you!Jennifer Doylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05004554513454749517noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6165780438929797577.post-58897096841599230462012-08-05T18:10:44.323-07:002012-08-05T18:10:44.323-07:00| According to the FIFA preview for this event, Te...| According to the FIFA preview for this event, Team GB's game<br />| against Brazil will be the first women's football match ever<br />| played at Wembley.*<br /><br />| *I never trust this kind of information, as people have a<br />| tendency to frame every big women's event as a "first,"<br />| even when history says otherwise.<br /><br />It was definitely not the first women's match on the site, though maybe in the new stadium.<br /><br />At Old Wembley, there was at least one international women's match, England vs. Italy, held before the 1990 FA Charity Shield, in which Carolina Morace's dazzling four-goal performance earned her a front page mention in "La Gazzetta dello Sport"(see http://www.calciodonna.it/Carolina/gazzetta.htm).<br /><br />Also, Penn State played a pre-season match at Old Wembley in the late 1990s (see any recent PSU women's soccer media guide) and a youth team from Ohio played the Millwall Lionesses U-14 team at Old Wembley in 1987 (see http://paimages.co.uk/preview/?urn=2.7085991)rd1899https://www.blogger.com/profile/09272974629131612283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6165780438929797577.post-88418207522261470642012-08-02T08:19:25.561-07:002012-08-02T08:19:25.561-07:00I really hope Team GB come through to get a medal....I really hope Team GB come through to get a medal. I really hope they win the whole damn thing, and we can stand up and point at the men's team, and the FA, and yell "HA! Look what we can do!". I've only been following womens' football for a couple of years and can feel the injustice...<br /><br />Bardsley has given up her job in order to play football full-time for the last few years of her career, supported not by her club or country, but by her husband. I look at that sacrifice and feel humble, and then I feel angry that, but for a week of Rooney's wages, it wouldn't be necessary.<br /><br />-<br /><br />I wonder if Hope would actually go to a men's Premier League club, as has been suggested, and if that would be good for the women's game? She *is* pretty much the best-qualified coach in the country. Would it be a milestone or an abandonment? I couldn't name anyone (female) apart from maybe Laura Harvey who could realistically step up to the England job.sanbikinoraionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15823745465626270567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6165780438929797577.post-54176066847448618682012-08-01T09:46:13.275-07:002012-08-01T09:46:13.275-07:00I envy you! These are such important matches for t...I envy you! These are such important matches for the sport - I think of this team as avenging generations of women footballers in esp GB. Women's football in England is a fantastic culture - fantastic history, so much talent and also just plain knowledge about the game. The FA - and the culture of the men's clubs & mass media - have stood in the way for so very long. <br /><br />Anyway - the team looked AMAZING. Hope Powell for President!Jennifer Doylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05004554513454749517noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6165780438929797577.post-41275105882906267002012-08-01T09:22:16.020-07:002012-08-01T09:22:16.020-07:00GB vs Brazil was a tremendous game. Such incredibl...GB vs Brazil was a tremendous game. Such incredible atmosphere in there. I was 13 rows back from the goal Houghton turned and smashed one past Andreia into. The crowd had were psyched up for the start of the match and it was such a dream start.<br /><br />I have to say, my opinion was that the Brazilians played quite cynically throughout -- 3 yellow cards all handed out for reasonable grievances, and I'm surprised it wasn't red for the ham-handed trip on Aluko in the Brazil penalty area. Christiane looked dangerous but never seemed to get the space to come alive.<br /><br />As a GB supporter I was thoroughly proud of my team. I haven't seen a game - and I watch Arsenal, 1/3rd of the GB team, regularly - in which so many players put in so big a performance. Scott, Little and Carney worked like dogs in midfield. Smith strained every sinew to chase long balls forward. Bardsley's superb double-save and two more besides. Most importantly, after getting a goal up, unlike the often-cowardly men's team, we didn't close up and put ten behind the ball, we kept stretching the game even if that meant Brazil got a few good chances that they were unlucky to convert.<br /><br />It's a cliché to say that we won because we wanted it more, but I really feel like last night there was one team playing with every ounce of effort in them, every minute of the match.<br /><br />I've booked Friday off to head to Coventry.sanbikinoraionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15823745465626270567noreply@blogger.com