916. The men fight on the Western Front. The women work in the factories and form football team, playing other factory teams across Scotland and raising money for the war effort. Women's football fast becomes the most popular game in the land. Fearful the men's game is being eclipsed, the football authorities ban the women's game in 1921. Sweet F.A. tells the story of one women's factory team from Edinburgh, their friendships, loves, losses and battles with rivals. Sweet F.A blends history, humour, passion and poignancy and dramatises the little known truth about what happened to the women's game.
