ANALYSIS: How England's Euros win is a moment of defiance 100 years in the making
On Boxing Day of 1920, 53,000 people filed into the famous Goodison Park stadium in northern Liverpool to watch a football match.
It was the closing match of an historic tour that the Dick, Kerr Ladies team from Preston North End had embarked upon throughout 1920. The attendance record, which stood for 92 years, was one thing: While the men's game had been expanded, with more clubs and tiers added to the domestic pyramid, they weren't attracting the kinds of crowds that the women's game was getting at the time.
The women's game was something they had no control over: not the fixtures, not the ticket sales, not the destination of the money raised, and certainly not the women who raised it. They defied the ban and continued to travel and play, crossing the Atlantic for another tour in Canada and the USA in 1922, although they were forced to play against men's teams due to the lack of women's sides abroad.In 1926, they changed their name to Preston Ladies.
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