Al R, absolutely. I'm fully aware of that. There is an interesting TV program coming up on Ch4 hosted by Clare Balding that discusses how the Football Association banned womens' football in 1921 for over 50 years. At the time a womens' football team was drawing crowd sizes of over 60,000 spectators. So gender exclusion is still very recent in this country and more so than many think.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/...-fa-outlawing/