In our local junior school( which John Toshack and a few others ) started kicking a ball about, they don’t have a football team of any sort. The only time they play football is in the school yard at play time. Teachers no longer give up their “ free time” after school or every Saturday morning. When I was growing up, we couldn’t get enough football, and teachers were always happy to encourage you to take part. We went all over the city playing against other schools at the time.
It’s good to see girls playing alongside boys in several sports- rugby being the most noticeable being Wales national sport. Unless the mentality changes in the near future , I don’t see it progressing as they’d like it to. It’s over to the education authorities to make this happen.