She Can Kick It is about women’s football - the past, present, and future of the game. Written by me - Clare McEwen - author and women’s sport journalist, who is still raging about being denied football as a kid but now channels it into (mostly) positive writing.

I’m a historian and lifelong fan of the women’s game, and the author of She Can Kick It: The History of Women’s Football Across the World. I went looking for a book that told the whole story — across countries, across eras, the players and teams and movements that built this sport. It didn’t exist. So I wrote it.

Here, I write about all of it. The history you probably weren’t taught. The game as it is right now. The stories of players and clubs that deserve to be remembered.

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Want more? Join She Can Kick It: The Archive to get access to a growing archive of PDF pocket histories, starting with The 1921 Ban as Cultural Erasure.

Here’s the thing about women’s football history: most of it has already been lost once. The FA banned women from their grounds in 1921 and a game that had been filling stadiums of 50,000 just quietly disappeared. No official records. No preserved statistics. No recognition. Just a gap where a thriving culture used to be.

I wrote She Can Kick It because I couldn’t find the book I wanted to read. And the more I dug, the more I realised that recovering this history isn’t a footnote - it’s the whole point. The Archive is where that work lives.