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Speaker 1: This is the Fitsy and Whipper with Kate Richie podcast.

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Speaker 1: I am floored by this. And just when you think

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Speaker 1: you think that, oh gosh, the world is getting better,

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Speaker 1: I can't believe it. So Mary Matilda Star Mary Fowler,

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Speaker 1: what an absolute superstar she is. She's just coming back

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Speaker 1: from an Aco. Actually she's due to play and we

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Speaker 1: need her because she is an unbelievable player. But she's

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Speaker 1: written a book, Whip, a new memoir called bloom Now.

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Speaker 1: In one of the chapters in there, it's called no

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Speaker 1: Great Days. This astounds me and this still goes on.

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Speaker 1: At the age of seventeen, she joined she joined a

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Speaker 1: French soccer club by the name of Montpellier and she

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Speaker 1: was over there. She did quite well, kick ten goals,

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Speaker 1: doing okay, but she said she just wasn't treated very well.

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Speaker 1: She said there was a few things going on. She

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Speaker 1: noted that once she had been dismissed by physiotherapist after

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Speaker 1: claiming that she'd been suffering from pains in her chest.

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Speaker 1: Fowler stated, the other players who were leaving the club

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Speaker 1: around the same time, what happened, right, She sort of said, look,

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Speaker 1: we're going to move on from you. Maryep You're not

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Speaker 1: performing enough, so she's moving on. So there was a

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Speaker 1: few other girls that were moved on as well, and

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Speaker 1: they all received flowers. She went into the change rooms

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Speaker 1: and she was with another girl that she was playing

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Speaker 1: with who was leaving the club as well, and they

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Speaker 1: questioned why they hadn't received flowers. Then she said a

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Speaker 1: few of the girls laughed about it, and one of

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Speaker 1: the girls came over and handed Mary Fowler and her

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Speaker 1: friend a bunch of bananas and said, he have these.

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Speaker 1: Isn't that astounding the color of her skin? Because of

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Speaker 1: the color of her skin, So when this is so,

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Speaker 1: this was like, I mean, we're only talking this is

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty. God, isn't it unbelievable? And I mean

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Speaker 1: we I mean in Europe you hear it quite a bit,

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Speaker 1: and there's fans that sort of that yell out and

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Speaker 1: they you're always racist times. But you know, for someone

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Speaker 1: at seventeen years of age and we know how magnificent

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Speaker 1: Mary Fowler is, but at a professional organization too, I know,

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Speaker 1: it's crazy, like there needs to be massive backlash on

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Speaker 1: that club, but it just it just goes to show

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Speaker 1: that it still goes on. And we talk about it

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Speaker 1: in this country so much, and you know the Adam

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Speaker 1: Goods debate and that we've had over the years, and

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Speaker 1: you think you're getting better, but this still happens. Was

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Speaker 1: the other girl dark skinned? Yes she was? Yes she was.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, it's so jarring to hear. That'll be

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Speaker 1: a fascinating read. I mean this is this is a

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Speaker 1: young Australian girl who has to leave her country and

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Speaker 1: then go overseas and encounter that at the age of

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Speaker 1: seven band that is confronted. That book would be a

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Speaker 1: fascinating road. You're a champion, Mary Fowler. We love you

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