Another spectacular own goal by the FA!
Watford's predicament is a carbon copy of Crewe Alex who have two regular England U17s in their squad and an undefeated U10's squad (they comfortably defeated Arsenal, Aston Villa, Everton and Man Utd this season).
Combined with the FA's ridiculous mixed sex age ruling they are trying their best to make football increasingly less accessible for gifted young females. The FA should be ashamed of themselves.
I don't believe that Kay Cossington (head of Female CoEs at the FA) is very comfortable with what has occurred, however now is the time for her to show some balls and engage her conscience, and use what influence she has with her FA masters to highlight their poor judgement. She must draw their attention to the harm that this will do to girls football and emphasize the enormous potential this has in exposing the FA as incompetent. This is likely to be another public relations disaster for the FA (their continuing resistance in removing the silly mixed sex soccer age limit is testament to their astonishingly bad record of public relations disasters).
As a parent of a Crewe Alex player i share your frustrations and wish you all well at Watford. NO SURRENDER !

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 from what i believe kay cossington was on the panel and IS the hatchett woman...