Trudy McCaffery dreamed of being a professional football player however even with the ban lifted it still wasn’t possible in England. Lucky for her she got scouted by an Italian football team.

“I thought, how amazing is this?” she recalled to the BBC. “I can probably actually make a career out of this. I will be able to play football in the way I’d wanted to.”

Even her parents were not supportive, speaking about her mother she added: “I wouldn’t say she was horrified, but she was absolutely determined that this was not going to happen. If it had been a boy, they probably would have said: ‘Fantastic, you have to go for this.’ At the time football was not considered a legitimate career for women.”

Upon arriving in Italy, McCaffery and her teammates discovered just how big women’s football was there: “We had no idea until we got there how big ladies’ football was everywhere else apart from England.”

It seemed England still had a long way to go. When she returned to England after playing in Italy, and playing in front of 90,000 in Aztec, Mexico, she had to go back to playing for a local school team. England was far behind many other countries in terms of recognising women in football.

In 1989 Channel 4 started to regularly show women’s football and by November 2014 over 55,000 tickets were bought to see England v Germany at Wembley.

Women’s football was on the up.

How women fought for their right to play football after the FA deemed it “quite unsuitable for females” in 1921