I’m not having a go at you specifically but I really hope this stops happening - comparing the women’s game to the men’s. I keep seeing ‘Oh the men could learn a thing or two from this’ or ‘The women did what the men haven’t done for years!’ but I think that is reductive and pointless - it’s a different game, and why are we bringing the men into it and bringing them down rather than just celebrating what the women have done?
Also, are we going to do that the other way around? If the men win the World Cup will we immediately be saying ‘The men have taught the women or two a thing about winning the big one!’ I doubt it. You could argue that it’s a lot harder for England men to win international honours than England women, but again I don’t want to go down that road. Same as when people say White has broken Wayne Rooney’s international scoring record - why? Just say she’s the women’s all time top scorer for England. Are we going to start pointing out when the men break records that the women have? Again, I doubt it.
It’s just a weird kind of rebound thing to the idiots who try and do down the women’s game that people try and say it’s actually better than the men’s. It’s just different, no-one in one can ever play in the other, so don’t bother.