Episode 15: The UEFA European Women’s Championship – “Women’s Football Confuses Men”

It’s a story almost as old as football itself: women start playing. People notice. They’re good - really good. Crowds grow, praise swells, more girls join in… and just as momentum builds, the men in suits step in.

With furrowed brows and dubious “health concerns”, they declare the game unfit for women - too rough, too unfeminine, too dangerous for their supposedly fragile reproductive systems. Too improper a spectacle for men to have to endure.

Rinse. Repeat.

It’s a maddening cycle that’s haunted women’s football for over a century: visibility, popularity… then paternalistic backlash. But through it all, the women kept going - not waiting for permission, not playing for praise, but for  ...