A headline in the English newspaper the Daily Mirror last week asked “Who is Hannah Dingley?” It was a fair question and few people were able to provide an answer.
But Dingley was making sports history in becoming the first woman to manage an English men’s professional football team. She had been named the caretaker boss of League Two side Forest Green Rovers after the sacking of Duncan Ferguson earlier in the week.
Rovers had been relegated from League One last season.
A former university lecturer, Dingley, 39, had previously been in charge of the club’s academy.
Some critics have put it down as a publicity stunt arranged by owner Dale Vince, who is not…
