I am going to assume that you aren’t familiar with the history of womens association football, particularly what happened when Dick, Kerr’s Ladies FC were getting bigger crowds than the professional mens teams in the English football league.
5 Women’s Football Matches. The following Resolution was adopted:
Complaints having been made as to football being played by women, Council felt impelled to express the strong opinion that the game of football is quite unsuitable for females and should not be encouraged.
Complaints have also been made as to the conditions under which some of the matches have been arranged and played, and the appropriation of receipts to other than charitable objects. The Council are further of the opinion that an excessive proportion of the receipts are absorbed in expenses and an inadequate percentage devoted to charitable objects.
For these reasons the Council requests the Clubs belonging to the Association refuse the use of their grounds for such matches.
— FA Consultative Committee, 1921
