All-Ireland attendance - Women’s sport

“I underestimated you” were the first words former Wimbledon winner Bobby Riggs said to Billie Jean King in 1973 after she defeated him in front of 90m TV viewers.

The so-called Battle of the Sexes was a triumph for women in general as she was combatting stereotypes that female tennis players were not as skilled as their male counterparts.

Women in sport have come a long way since those days when, in many codes, their role was confined largely to making the tea and sandwiches at half time.