What Makes Women Believe They Can Change Football?
Last updated : 10 September 2007 By Footy Mad - Editor
No England (or indeed Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland) team can play in the Olympics as we go under the banner of GB, so what gives women the idea they can change the sport?
The England woman's team are participating in the World Cup finals this month for the first time in 12 years and open their campaign against Japan in Shanghai on Tuesday.
For the four other European nations taking part in the competition there is the added incentive of automatic qualification for next year's Olympics if they are among the three sides that finish with the highest rankings in the tournament.
The British Olympic Association (BOA) had been keen for a women's GB team to be entered for next year's Olympics games with both a men's and women's team planned for London 2012.
But FIFA have ruled that England will remain ineligible for the Olympics regardless of how far they progress in the World Cup because they do not have their own National Olympic Committee.
Our conclusion - as Harry Enfield would say: "Women ... KNOW YOUR PLACE!"