{"id":33570,"date":"2018-03-23T01:17:11","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T00:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/03\/23\/manchester-uniteds-womens-football-move-is-better-late-than-never-suzanne-wrack\/"},"modified":"2018-03-23T01:17:11","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T00:17:11","slug":"manchester-uniteds-womens-football-move-is-better-late-than-never-suzanne-wrack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=33570","title":{"rendered":"Manchester United\u2019s women\u2019s football move is better late than never | Suzanne Wrack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the time it has taken, the news that one of the game\u2019s superpowers are launching a pro women\u2019s team is welcomeFinally. The announcement that Manchester United are to launch a professional women\u2019s team and have bid for a place in a newly restructured second tier next season has provoked a variety of responses but overall it is deeply welcome.Why? Because whatever you may think about United\u2019s late arrival to the party, one of the superpowers of world football entering the arena will boost the profile of the game and show that women\u2019s football has reached the point where it must be taken seriously. And United, seen by many as stubborn and out of step, will benefit from an enhanced reputation and will be able to expand their extensive sponsorship portfolio into a new market. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/blog\/2018\/mar\/22\/manchester-united-womens-football-move-better-late-than-never\" target=\"_blank\">Manchester United\u2019s women\u2019s football move is better late than never | Suzanne Wrack<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the time it has taken, the news that one of the game\u2019s superpowers are launching a pro women\u2019s team is welcomeFinally. The announcement that Manchester United are to launch a professional women\u2019s team and have bid for a place in a newly restructured second tier next season has provoked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}