Copa 71 (PG, 90 mins)
Irish Wish?(93 mins)
Even in my many years as a sports writer, I never knew there was a women's football World Cup in 1971, with more than 100,000 people crammed into?Mexico City's Azteca Stadium to watch the final between Mexico and Denmark, a year after the infinitely more celebrated men's final between Brazil and Italy in the same 円形競技場.
But there's no shame in that, because not many did. O utrageously, it has been all but expunged from the history 調書をとる／予約するs, and for years afterwards the players were いじめ（る）d ― by the game's 治める／統治するing 団体／死体, FIFA, 同様に as their countries' football 協会s and even their own menfolk ― into not talking about it.
A terrific 文書の ((n)役員／(a)執行力のある-produced by Venus and Serena Williams), Copa 71? 始める，決めるs the 記録，記録的な／記録する straight with tournament （映画の）フィート数 that was 抑えるd for half a century, 加える a 一連の interviews with those who took part. They 含む the woman said to be the world's best 女性（の） player, Italy's Elena Schiavo, still angry at the distinctly iffy 審判（をする）ing 決定／判定勝ち（する）s that favoured Mexico in the 半分-final.
But more 利益／興味ing, and painful, is all the 証拠 of misogyny ― there's no other word for it ― to which the women footballers of that 時代 were 支配するd. The England captain Carol Wilson 解任するs a dinner at her home-town club, Newcastle 部隊d, at which the compere 温かく 招待するd her up to the 行う／開催する／段階 as 'a 星／主役にする' in their 中央, then proceeded to belittle and humiliate her.
Lis lene Nielsen with the トロフィー after the final match against Mexico in the?Women's Football World Cup in Mexico 1971
Outrageously, the 1971 Women's World Cup has been all but expunged from the history 調書をとる／予約するs, and for years afterwards the players were いじめ（る）d ― by the game's 治める／統治するing 団体／死体, FIFA
The film's co-director with Rachel Ramsay is James Erskine, whose 文書の credits 含む 2013's 戦う／戦い Of The Sexes about the tennis match between Billie-ジーンズ King and Bobby Riggs, and whose feminist 信任状 are now 完全にする.
Speaking of 完成, if you get through to the end of Irish Wish, a 貧しく-scripted, dreadfully-行為／法令／行動するd, idiotically-plotted rom-com, then award yourself a four-leafed clover.
Lindsay Lohan plays an American 調書をとる／予約する editor, in Ireland for the we dding of a best-selling author, whom she not-so 内密に fancies. It's 恐ろしい from start to finish, but there is some vague fun in counting the Emerald 小島 cliches, which pile up like empty Guinness glasses in Scruffy Murphy's 妨げる／法廷，弁護士業.
Copa 71 is in cinemas. Irish Wish is on Netflix.
