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https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/...hes-could-improve-women-s-game-dr022ptrx?t=ie
Behind a paywall but mirrors alot of the conversations that have been happening in here.
It of course completely overlooks the fact that when the size of a football pitch was first designed the average height of a man was 5ft 5...
I dont subscribe to the needs to be smaller argument, especially when people are getting bigger...
And just to ram the point home completely, there were plenty of 5ft players. But of course history forgets this point because its not fashionable.
My grandfather was a professional footballer, played in the english league, he was the outstanding height of 5ft 6 in 1939. Didnt stop him playing in front of 20,000 people, or scoring.