Sunday Mail (UK)

How a Scotland team kick-started a revolution

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women’s national side against England in Greenock 46 years ago had fought an even bigger battle to get there.

And today they reveal the blood, sweat and tears they shed to make it to the game in November 1972, when they narrowly lost 3-2 to a hugely experience­d English side.

The women’s game in Scotland now rightly enjoys a much bigger profile, with the national team preparing for the World Cup in France next year.

But it was a very different story for some of that historic first team, who were reunited at

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