Clare McEwen fell in love with football as a girl in the 1980s. She spent countless hours with a ball at her feet but wasn't allowed to play in a team (although she did briefly try to start her own!).
Watching the Lionesses play at Wembley decades later brought up a bucketload of emotions. Driven by these emotions and a need to understand the game's hidden history, she set out on a journey to uncover the stories of the women who made it possible. She continues to champion the history of the sport, as well as digging into the state of play in the modern game.

Clare McEwen fell in love with football as a girl in the 1980s. She spent countless hours with a ball at her feet but wasn't allowed to play in a team (although she did briefly try to start her own!).
Watching the Lionesses play at Wembley decades later brought up a bucketload of emotions. Driven by these emotions and a need to understand the game's hidden history, she set out on a journey to uncover the stories of the women who made it possible. She continues to champion the history of the sport, as well as digging into the state of play in the modern game.

Clare writes for The New Women's Sport Magazine and is a former epidemiologist at the University of Oxford. In her free time, she coaches her son's football team, as yet, fairly unsuccessfully.