Yet another article by Oliver Brown (in the online Telegraph) about the gross unfairness we've seen in women's sports for the last few years. It's behind a pay wall.
He mentions injuries to women, girls being punished for asking if a man is a man, the cowardice of the FA - 'even in the short statement it issued, there was no reference to the women and girls disadvantaged for years by its genuflecting to the fallacy that people cold be whatever sex they purported to be'. All of it.
And how wonderful to see the domino effect: first the FA, then England Netball and E&W Cricket Board, and as Mr. Brown points out these latter two were 'saved by football's abrupt about-turn from any need to make a stand on their own'. We'll be seeing that a lot, I think - quietly returning to common sense with no real issue made of it because the big boys did it first.
I hadn't known until I read this article that two years ago, The Telegraph was presented with letters from parents of girls as young as 12 who were all alarmed that their daughters were being sent into bat against middle aged men. I mean, I knew about the girls & the men, but not about the letters.
The usual list of wonderful women get a name check: Mara Yamauchi, Fiona McAnena, Nic Williams, Emma Hilton and, of course, Sharron Davies, with an honorable mention to Daley Thompson.
It's a stonking article, do read it if you can. I know Oliver has always been good on this but he really wraps the whole thing up with no loose ends in this one.