“What you got in your handbag love, is that your knitting? Shouldn’t you be in the kitchen?”
Those were among the insults Hy Money recalls when she first entered a 1970s Selhurst Park press room.
“One chap walked up and deliberately barged into me,” she remembers. “‘Oh, sorry Sir I didn’t see you there,’ he said, trying to make his point.”
While Crystal Palace quickly embraced her as one of their own, Ms Money still faced significant barriers.
Her initial application for a National Union of Journalists (NUJ) pass was also denied due to a petition signed by 40 men.