@emmessenn.comMs Alex Scott MBE. 140 caps, Euro 2009 winner, Arsenal legend - then one of the most prominent voices in British football broadcasting.
Alex took the women's game into living rooms that had never shown it.
#FlowersforLegends #BHM #AlexScott
@emmessenn.comMs Anita Asante. 71 caps. Part of Arsenal's 2007 quadruple - still the only English club to win Europe's top prize. Won again with Chelsea, then stayed in the fight as a broadcaster and voice for the next generation.
@emmessenn.comDemi Stokes. A South Shields kid who won everything there was to win across nine years at Manchester City - then went home to Newcastle to keep pushing for change.
Proudly outspoken about being Black in the game. #FlowersforLegends #BHM #DemiStokes
@emmessenn.comMs Eni Aluko MBE . 102 caps, league titles with Chelsea and Arsenal, and the woman whose 2017 case forced the FA to face its own racism and failures.
Now a sporting director and club owner via the Mercury 13 group. #FlowersforLegends #BHM #EniAluko
@emmessenn.comMs Rachel Aba Yankey OBE. MBE. 129 caps and the first England woman to reach 100. Eight league titles with Arsenal, and decades of grassroots coaching after.
The first GB Black women's footballer I was ever aware of.
#FlowersforLegends #BHM #RachelYankey
@emmessenn.comIt’s internationals this week so no WSL, but I got you -let’s look back to the era that changed the women’s game and cemented the Lionesses as a force and gave Black women footballers visibility off the pitch too.
#FlowersforLegends #BHM
@emmessenn.comTomorrow: part two of #FlowersforLegends. The golden generation... #BHM
@emmessenn.com[CORRECTION]: it's Mary Phillip -double L.
The first Black woman to captain the Lionesses deserves her name spelled exactly right. Sorry, Mary. #FlowersforLegends #BHM #MaryPhillip
@emmessenn.comMs Hope Powell revolutionised the national team set up and laid the foundations of the professional era in the women’s game. The players she brought through are the Golden Generation of Lionesses.
Ms Powell is Technical Director at Birmingham City. OBE. CBE. #FlowersforLegends #BHM #HopePowell
@emmessenn.comHope Powell. 72 caps as a player, then Lionesses manager at 31 making her the first Black manager of ANY England team. 15 years in charge and took England to a European 2009 final and off Team GB at London 2012
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@emmessenn.comMary Phillip the Lionesses's first Black captain, earned 64 caps and played for Arsenal and Chelsea. Ms Philip went on to become the first woman to manage a men's semi-pro club (Peckham Town).
#FlowersforLegends #BHM #MaryPhilip
@emmessenn.comKerry Davis - First Black British player for England women (1982), 82 caps, 44 goals.
She was finally awarded an MBE in the 2026 New Year Honours for services to football and diversity in sport.
#FlowersforLegends #BHM #KerrySavis
@emmessenn.comThe pioneers first. Some names you will know. Some the game itself forgot. All of them cleared the path for the players we applaud today. #FlowersforLegends #BHM
@emmessenn.comThis UK Black History Month, every Oct weekend I'll be profiling the Black women who pioneered English women's football…the trailblazers behind today's Lionesses.
Starting with Emma Clarke -giving flowers where they're overdue. #FlowersforLegends #BHM
