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In the same year the Dick, Kerr Ladies toured the USA where they played eight games against male opposition, winning three and scoring 35 goals.However, female participation in football in England was actively discouraged by the Football Association until quite recently (the FA banned women from using it's grounds for fifty years between 1920 and 1970), and is still widely considered as a 'man's game' in which women are seen as marginal, both as players and even as spectators.