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AFC Wimbledon 1-2 Actonians (WNL South East 1)

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Project Big Picture. I first saw the words when I glanced at my phone during half-time. Digesting a bit of the detail behind the 'Big Six's' latest show of the contempt for football fans was spirit-sapping. I felt relieved to be here, one among an official attendance of just 90 people watching a Tier 4 women's football match between AFC Wimbledon and Actonians.  The bizarre bus I'd seen parked in someone's driveway as this second leg of my sponsored walk began seemed like a metaphor for every club outside the very richest of those in the men's Premier League. "YOUR FUTURE: EXTINCTION!" read the sign above the driver's window.  Quite litereally, an ominous sign The sport at elite level seems to be moving further away from the game I fell in love with by the day. I am conscious I sound like one of the grumpy old sports journos who used to whine on in the 90s, when I was a kid, about how football was better in their day. "Why do you still wat
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Beckenham Town 2-5 Welling United

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This is the very first season in existence for Beckenham Town Women . Think about that. It's only been possible to play fully competitive 11-a-side football as a woman in Beckenham since..... NOW. Well, since a few weeks ago. That's not a criticism of Beckenham Town FC. They should very much be applauded for the work they have done in the last few Covid-ridden months to bring a team together from scratch and get them registered into the South East Counties Women's Football League Division Two in time for season 2020-21.  Women's football should be no more immune to criticism than any other genre of football but those who mock it would do well to consider the lack of opportunity women have had for decades and that they continue to be hindered by today. How on earth can women's football possibly be expected to have evolved to the level of men's professional football when it was banned for half a century? Even though it's now 50 years since the ban was overturn
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