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Copa 71 review: An enlightening documentary about REAL girl power, writes BRIAN VINER
Even in my many years as a sports writer, I never knew there was a women's football World Cup in 1971 against Mexico and Denmark.
A terrific documentary (executive-produced by Venus and Serena Williams), Copa 71 sets the record straight with tournament footage that was suppressed for half a century, plus a series of interviews with those who took part. The England captain Carol Wilson recalls a dinner at her home-town club, Newcastle United, at which the compere warmly invited her up to the stage as ‘a star’ in their midst, then proceeded to belittle and humiliate her. The film’s co-director with Rachel Ramsay is James Erskine, whose documentary credits include 2013’s Battle Of The Sexes about the tennis match between Billie-Jean King and Bobby Riggs, and whose feminist credentials are now complete.
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