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@LondonSeawardFC This moment isn't just about the Women's Prem. It's about the pipeline. And it's about proving women's football is MORE than just 'big name' clubs.
It's about removing barriers for women to play at ANY level.
It's about making it available to all.
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You do that, and you're enabling someone who doesn't have the money to pay-to-play to take part.
You're giving young girls the same chance young boys have from league clubs:
The chance to just PLAY. To compete based on ability, not income.
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Y'all follow me who work in marketing. Who have "Director" in your profile, or "founder" or "president"
You probably do because you identify with the empathy and ethics I talk about when I do history threads.
I talk about people who make a difference. This is YOUR chance.
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This is one of those torn posters you see on the wall in a post-apocalyptic video game.
Later, there's a mission called 'Little England' on your main mission path.
It takes you to a single town in the apocalyptic wasteland full of people in bowler hats and frilly dresses, policed by robot 'bobbies' and you need to work out what's going on.
They all claim to be really happy and loyal followers of their eternal Prime Minister Liz Truss, who has led them since before the apocalypse.
They affectionately refer to her as the 'Tin Lady', and her voice periodically exhorts them with utter banalities from loudspeakers.
A reminder that we LITERALLY had a Space programme in the 60/70s, independently achieved space flight, launched our own rockets and Prospero (our first actual independently launched satellite) is still up there, trying to talk to us.
The only reason we don't have a world-leading space programme now (we built for a budget based on V2 tech, not big flashy rockets) is the continual lack of long term thinking from politicians and the Treasury.
So absolute credit to all the engineers at Virgin's space ops. But let's not pretend Mr Beardy Richman is making some kind of national history here just because he got bored of balloons.
I'm always amazed at the cast iron certainty of some people that they KNOW they'd be amazing heroes in terrible situations.
One of the things being a historian teaches you is that the people who think life is simply good vs evil like that are normally conned into doing the evil.
The real truth of the matter is such situations are horrible, messy and complicated. And the people who end up doing good in them are often those who have strong ethics, but are conscious of their own limits. The ones who don't think they're the hero in their own story.
Trying to illustrate that is one reason I do history threads. It's not about glorifying individuals. It's about highlighting the various ways people have reacted, to provide mental examples as to how people from a variety of backgrounds and complicity CAN find a way to say: "no."
On 16th March, 1968 Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson Jnr was flying helicopter recon for an attack on an alleged Viet Cong-controlled village in Vietnam.
As the attack developed, Thompson realised he was witnessing something something else:
A massacre.
He decided to act. /1 🧵
At first Thompson and his crew, Lawrence Colburn and Glen Andreotta thought the wounded were the result of artillery fire.
They dropped a green flare near a wounded civilian, expecting the infantry to help. Cpt Medina of Charlie Company walked over and shot her in the head.
"We were hovering six feet off the ground not more than twenty feet away when Captain Medina came over, kicked her, stepped back, and finished her off." He later said. "He did it right in front of us. When we saw Medina do that, it clicked. It was our guys doing the killing."