FA should honour female England players who were not given their caps due to 'penny-pinching' 🟢 samcunningham for iPaperSport
That the 1972 players had a cap at all is down to the industriousness of one woman. Flo Bilton, who died in 2004, was an officer at the Women’s Football Association from when it opened in 1969 until the FA finally took women’s football under its umbrella 24 years later.Football Nation: Sixty Years of the Beautiful Game
After winning three or four of them, the players stopped receiving them, because it became too much work for Bilton. And just as they had to pay for their own travel to play for England, they had to pay for the caps, too. So instead, upon retirement they were given a shield with smaller decorative shields marking each of their England appearances.
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