When Football Banned Women, 10pm, Ch4

ENGLAND are set to face Scotland in the Women’s Euro 2017 championship tomorrow (7pm, Ch4), but if you thought women’s football was a modern phenomenon, think again. Because, remarkable though it seems, a hundred years ago, the women’s game was enormously popular, with star players drawing crowds of up to 60,000. In this fascinating one-off, Clare Balding (pictured left) explores the game’s surprising history.