Quote Originally Posted by jon1959 View Post
I just had a look at the Cardiff City Women team page - and there are 21 mug shots, all white. A major difference from the diversity of the mens' team pages - first team, u21s and u18s. And club clips of the Foundation at work often show mixed communities involved.

It may be (as Tuerto suggested) a reflection of the relative under-development of the women's game, or the way the club is identifying talent (in the summer they seemed to be looking at the best players from other clubs in the league - which may be a self-reinforcing strategy for maintaining the squad profile), or maybe some other reasonable explanation. Cardiff and South Wales is not as diverse as London (few places are) but as with Arsenal it does throw up some legitimate questions about opportunities.
There's still a lot of issues with facilities for womens grassroots football, particularly for those with certain religious beliefs.

Changing rooms they use and shower areas are the ones that men use, all showering together and its off putting for many women.

There is a need for individual cubicles etc for changing and showering and that costs clubs money to invest.