Women's football pioneer Patricia Gregory MBE on her upcoming Hall of Museum induction

Women's football pioneer Patricia Gregory MBE on her upcoming Hall of Museum induction   June 2025  National Football Museum, Manchester, UK

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00:00They very clearly, politely but clearly, said to us ladies play golf, women play

00:07football and cricket, rugby. I'm Patricia Gregory, I was born in Muswell Hill,

00:14London in August 47. In 1967 when I first had the idea of playing football

00:21there was no organisation of it and I wrote to the local paper having had the

00:27thought why don't girls play football? Girls and women wanted what their

00:35brothers had. If there was a an England team why didn't they have an England team?

00:46We worked for a couple of years, 67, 68 and into 69, to form a women's football

00:52association. We played our part in getting the FA to lift the 1921 ban. We formed

01:04fairly quickly leagues and the National Cup competition and had the first match in

01:101972 of the England team and it was coincidence at 100 years after the first

01:15men's international and then later on in 91 we formed a National League so that's a

01:26pretty good record.

01:32I think women have this great knack of seeing a job that needs to be done and

01:38doing it and not making a fuss about it.