A LOCAL football team has just won its thirteenth league title in a row.

But it’s not Celtic or Rangers or even Partick Thistle.

The women of Glasgow City FC beat Motherwell 10-0 recently, to claim the longest run of title wins in British football.

Women’s football developed alongside men’s in the early days.

In 1881, a thousand people turned up to watch an unofficial international between Scotland and England at Easter Road, which Scotland won 3-0.

During the First World War, women working at factories began to play football during their breaks, and local leagues developed where the factory teams played against each other.

But in 1921, the SFA and FA banned women from playing in club stadiums.

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The reason given was that women’s bodies were too frail for the beautiful game. But there were also worries that some women were becoming too political, using their games to raise money for striking miners.

It wasn’t until 1974 that the SFA finally lifted the ban, allowing women’s football to begin to grow again.

Earlier this year, Scotland’s women qualified for the World Cup, becoming the first Scotland team to do so for over twenty years.

Although in true Scottish style, they nearly made it to the last sixteen, only to crash out to a penalty in the dying moments of their last game.

In the last five years, the number of women and girls playing football in Scotland has almost doubled.

The international women’s team have become role models inspiring girls to take up the game, though there is a long way to go until there is equal funding and infrastructure to match the boys’ game in Scotland.

So congratulations to Glasgow City, and keep going - you’ve only three more league titles to win to claim the world record.