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National Football Museum to draw more attention to women’s football
National Football Museum in central Manchester

NATIONAL Football Museum curator Belinda Scarlett feels content planned for this year and 2022 will mark an important step in the organisation’s work regarding women in the game.

The Manchester-based museum, shut for much of the past 12 months due to the coronavirus pandemic, last week announced it is planning to reopen on May 27.

In 2019, it stated it was aiming to increase representation of women in football to 50 per cent.

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