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flag Merseyside honors pioneering female footballers Lily Parr and Lizzy Ashcroft with plaques before Euro 2025.

flag In 2025, Merseyside will honor early female football players Lily Parr and Lizzy Ashcroft with blue plaques, recognizing their contributions despite a ban on women's football after WWI. flag The plaques are set to be placed in St Helens ahead of the Euro 2025 tournament. flag Steve Bolton, Ashcroft's grandson and a football historian, notes that today's female footballers owe a debt to these pioneers.

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