Still 2-1. Stopped watching as it’s just a lot of passing.

DunD - that would mean the women's game accepting it's a different sport with different parameters. Even though it would make it a better spectacle to watch.

I sometimes wonder whether women's football would benefit from being played on a slightly smaller pitch, with smaller goalmouths and a size 4 ball.

I second what Keefy said and I don’t have a wee Willie winkle

2-1 Pafos

And a lot of people watch women's tennis of course. Radacanu vs Sabalenka last night had plenty to offer. Excellent placement (both players) and power (Sabalenka), plus a really hard-fought duel. Either of them would get thrashed by their male equivalents, but that didn't detract from the match.

Thanks for the link Steve Mac

Ledd - thks for the ear worm

OI - exactly 👍

If you look at Athletics, say a 1500 metre women's race you can either think that the men would be half a lap ahead so not enjoy it or think whether A's sprint finish will catch B in the home straight in which case you probably will enjoy it. Up to you.

Swig - exactly, it’s a different type of game to watch, even though it’s the “same game”. Some might say why does anyone go to men’s League 2 football games when the quality is so poor compared to the Premier League, but plenty still go, so…. 🤷🏻‍♂️

The marathon runner Nina Kuscik who died this week aged 86 was remembered on Last Word yesterday, that’s what made me look for the other programme (which was from 2014!) - go to minute 13 and 30 seconds here for a summary of her running achievements [Link]

Don't like ladies football because of the poor quality not because of my wee willy winkle!

I reffed some women's football during my 30 years (including AFC matches). It made a pleasant change from men's and was slower and less physical. I was given the line on Croydon v Arsenal in the Women's FA Cup but it got postponed and I couldn't make the rescheduled game.

Bit piss poor defending for their second

Kite - I wouldn’t presume to suggest anyone in particular (that way lies disputes that I can’t be bothered with any more), but also I don’t think it’s necessarily always who you might have expected it to be…

Maybe ignore the first link 🤪 as it seems to go elsewhere instead of the running programme 😂🤷🏻‍♂️

a4e, all the usual suspects!

A yellow card for JJ.

nug - I honestly think some people (mostly men) just don’t like the existence of women’s football (or indeed many sports that they consider to be “men’s sports” - rugby, cricket are further examples…). It reeks of something often referred to as “small dick energy” by some people, a sort of “how dare women invade our space, and just look how shit they are at it too” take on things. This programme about women in marathon running is a good listen… [Link] (or here if you don’t have the BBC Sounds app [Link] ).

1-1 Kelly set up by Splatt

The game against Pafos is live on YouTube [Link]

1 nil down to Pafos. Looks like we conceded within one minute

If we don’t win the group likely to face Germany in the next round too, couldn’t really have been much harder draw

I'm a bit torn on England. We've been very hit and miss since the world cup. The noise around losing Earps and Kirby is a bit of smoke screen. Neither would have played. Bright is a big loss unfortunately. For me it feels like if we finish top of the group we will go far and will be battle hardened as the group is so tough. We've both beaten and lost to France and Netherlands in the last couple of years so if we get the best of the Lionesses they will do well. Everyone talk about Lauren James but I went to the last game at Wembley and Lauren Hemp was devastating. Keira Walsh is the key though. Since the Euros teams now tend to use a 10 to mark her and she's struggled to have the same influence on games. She's one of the best players to watch men or women that I've watched but if she's on her game we will dictate the game. Aggie Beever-Jones and Jess Park are two of the younger players to watch out for. Aggie has come through the Chelsea system and was top league scorer and Jess is a 10 at City.