Prof Stacey Pope’s showcase highlights how women have always been required to defend and justify their fandom Prof Stacey Pope’s showcase highlights how women have always been required to defend and justify their fandom “Y ou can be the thickest bloke and you still think you know more about football than a woman,” reads a line from Newcastle fan named Jo around halfway into a new exhibition on women in football culture. “[They] say, ‘you don’t know what you’re talking about.’ Oh, I could wipe