11-year-old girl wins landmark right to play football with the big boys

Submitted by anthony on Tue, 2007-05-29 23:28

Story here.

I she gets hurt, she'll sue the education system.

Excerpt:
"She's a tough tackler and a natural winner, as the boys on her team would tell you.

Now Minnie Crutwell has secured a famous victory - against the might of the Football Association.

The 11-year-old has forced the FA to reconsider its age-limit for mixed-sex teams, after recruiting Government ministers to her cause.

Minnie will now be allowed to stay with her team beyond her next birthday, instead of being forced to join a girls-only side. There will be a one-year pilot to see how older mixed sides work before the FA decides on a long-term policy."

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Do they have a girls team for 12 and up?!

Last year in Canada there was a similar case involving a couple of girls (sisters) wanting to play on the boy's hockey team, because they didn't think the girls were very good.

They ended up overturning the laws, and getting a chance to try out on the boys team. Neither of them made the team. The girls ended up ostracizing themselves for putting down the girls teams, and not being good enough for the boys teams.

Also interesting out of that... a few brave boys got pissed off at the whole thing, and rebelled by trying to get on girls teams claiming that they weren't good enough for the boys teams but would be able to play at the girls level, and so should be able to by the same logic.

Of course this didn't go too far. Only girls can do what they want.

Found a couple of relevant links below...

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060926/girls_hockey_060926/20060926?hub=Canada

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2006/09/26/pasternak-boys.html

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Submitted by alen on Wed, 2007-05-30 17:02

in case anyone cares, it should be IF. WE need a spell check on this site!....enjoy!

Victory not Vengeance!

anthony

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Submitted by anthony on Thu, 2007-05-31 00:52