Sportshour

“I don’t see it as trying to hit new milestones as a female” – Joy Neville on making history. The Irish referee will become the first woman to take on Television Match Official duties in a men's international game when Wales face Georgia next month. Neville tells us how she initially needed some convincing to become a referee, how other people’s doubts over whether a woman could make it as a top official have driven her on and she explains her approach to being a TMO.Maryam Shojaei joins us one year on from three and a half thousand women attending Iran’s men’s World Cup qualifier against Cambodia in Tehran. Apart from a few exceptions, women had effectively been banned from stadiums where men were playing since just after the 1979 Islamic revolution. Shojaei ran a campaign -- first anonymously and later publicly -- that led to Iran allowing women to attend men's football matches. She gives us her memories of the day and tells us about her hopes for the future.To celebrate Black History Month we speak to a p