Does anybody know anything about this?

 

http://donmouth.co.uk/womens football/soup kitchen soccer.html

 

I'm particularly interested in the Netherton Team. I remember football matches between men and women at Netherton in the fifties. The women were in full gear but the men wore long nighties and wellies. I'm not sure but I Think it had something to do with raising Money for the yearly outing to Whitley Bay.

 

 

One team in 1926 was pictured on one of Evan Martin 's books.

The girl with the cup was Ellen Mitchell who lived just outside Westlea.

In our time she resembled her mother who was behind the team.

Evan's comments inside the book reveal she was such a good footballer that at one match someone suggested she should play for Newcastle

I wonder what her name was before she married.

She gave our kids a three piece suite leather with fabric cushions when they lived in Ridge Terrace.

She was a local magistrate .