The Lost Lionesses
Park Village
In Development — Feature Doc
Director — Michael Donald
In the 1960s women’s football didn’t officially exist.
As the decade drew to a close there was little to be optimistic about. 1970s Britain was a miserable place.
Against this backdrop and against all odds in 1971
a group of English teenage girls, the youngest only thirteen, obsessed with playing football, under the guidance of one man went to represent England in the Women’s World Cup Finals in Mexico. With no recognition from the FA or FIFA or and without any official backing they somehow managed to pull it off.
They were taken to the hearts of their Mexican hosts, who called them INTLATERRA!, playing to crowds of 90,000, yet found themselves returning to England, not to adulation and accolades, but to anonymity and bans from playing any kind of organised football. Their manager, Harry Batt was banned for life.
Many have not spoken about it until now.
