Team GB women make case for spotlight

As a sort of footnote to the men’s experiment on the Olympic stage during the 2012 games, the female equivalent have had to settle for the typical marginalisation it usually faces when competing for headlines in the default-male orientated sport of football. Hope Powell’s squad qualified at the top of group E having conceded 0 goals and winning all three matches to set up a quarter-final date with Canada.

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At last, a national team we can be proud of

As promised yesterday, a blog post about the impact that Team GB has made on the football in the Olympics so far and, in a remarkably prescient move, what an apt decision to delay writing a post about that team until tonight.

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