You’d be forgiven for thinking the logo added to Katrina Gorry’s soccer kit was just another sponsor for the new English Women’s Super League season. In fact, you’d be forgiven for not noticing it at all as the Matildas veteran captains her club, West Ham United, in their season opener against Tottenham on Sunday.

Instead, that logo is the result of a player-led movement sweeping women’s sport: Gorry will be wearing period-proof shorts.

This season, for the first time, a professional women’s soccer club has partnered with ModiBodi, a company that creates period-proof underwear and athleisure wear – further widening the gap between clubs that cater to the specific needs of female players, and those that don’t.

Gorry said the partnership was a “groundbreaking moment for women’s sport whic

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