Who was Lily then?
In 2002, Lily Parr was posthumously inducted into the “Hall of Fame” of the National Football Museum in England, the first woman to be inducted.
Lily was almost six feet tall and scored nearly 1,000 goals in three decades of career. In her first season for the Dick, Kerr Ladies, she scored 43 goals.
The local press wrote: "There is probably no greatest football prodigy in the whole country." She was feared by all the goalies...