*** ENGLAND and THAME Lioness Gill Sayell gets a mention ***

As we build up to the Women's World Cup 2019 and all our hope is with our lionesses in France we thought we would re-visit the past.

Courtesy of BBC Sport -

Many had been banned from joining boys’ teams at school. The only way Gill Sayell, a small, speedy winger, was allowed to play for a local lads’ team was to pretend to be a boy called Billy.

“I can remember still kicking the ball around on the green when schoolfriends of mine were going out to discos,” she says. “I wasn’t interested in that – just the football.”

Sayell was 14 when she graduated to Thame Ladies, which had been founded in the Oxfordshire town in 1969.

Like other teams, they made do with whatever facilities were to hand, getting changed in the scout hut down the road and, after one particularly muddy game, traipsing through the streets to be hosed down in the cattle market.

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