It’s a real chicken and egg/tail wags dog situation. Of course women’s football is a good thing, fair play to them - it’s the manufactured and completely false elevation of the year-round women’s game (I can understand a bit of hooha and some prime time focus when it’s a Women’s World Cup or some other big event). Pretending that it sits equally, as a viewer sport, alongside the well-established, highly skilled, highly popular men’s game annoys the **** out of me.
The BBC website and my newspaper of choice are particularly high profile examples of this.... scrolling through the pages and seeing headlines like “Spurs stun Barca”, “Morgan signs for Chelsea”, “Villa sack manager” and then finding out it’s people I’ve never heard of and have no interest in at all. It’s ****ing tedious. It’s so false if I was a woman footballer I’d feel a bit embarrassed by it to be honest.
