Clare J McEwenClare 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 laer 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. Clare writes for The Women's Football Magazine and is an experienced epidemiology researcher at the University of Oxford. In her free time, she coaches her son's under-13s football team, as yet, fairly unsuccessfully. Read More Read Less