{"id":454864,"date":"2026-05-18T12:46:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T12:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/454864\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T12:46:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T12:46:19","slug":"the-corinthians-we-were-the-champions-review-the-heroic-female-footballers-who-took-on-the-world-and-won","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/454864\/","title":{"rendered":"The Corinthians: We Were the Champions review: The heroic female footballers who took on the world and won"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\u2018The Corinthians: We Were the Champions\u2019 (BBC Four)\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Corinthians Ladies FC team players in 1958 with the club\u2019s visionary founder Percy Ashley, who refused to bow to the FA. Photo: BBC\/Films Not Words\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/corinthians.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">The Corinthians Ladies FC team players in 1958 with the club\u2019s visionary founder Percy Ashley, who refused to bow to the FA. Photo: BBC\/Films Not Words<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Saint Paul\u2019s letter to the Corinthians says: \u201cWomen should be silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak but should be subordinate, as the law also says.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">History didn\u2019t record how the men running the English Football Association in the early decades of the 20th century felt about women staying silent in church. We know how they felt about the idea of women playing on sacred FA turf, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018The Corinthians: We Were the Champions\u2019 (BBC Four) The Corinthians Ladies FC team players in 1958 with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1578,93,61,60,9617],"class_list":["post-454864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-bbc","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-pat-stacey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}