I’ve been on a bit of a journey this year with women’s football.
At the start of the year I openly said to friends, I was sick of all the hype, why all of a sudden is it being shown on every station, the games quality just isn’t as good as the mens.
Then this tournament came along, and I read online about how the FA banned women from competing on “mens” grounds after the war. Sending the women’s game into the abyss just as it was taking off. The mens game was well placed to go into the stratosphere as TV came along and women’s football missed out, taking the best part of a century to catch up.
This is a long overdue coronation of the game. I’ll gladly admit I was wrong before and I’ve found my new favourite sport all over again.