i watched that Women's Champions League Final held at Cardiff City Stadium and left before extra time because I was so bored. I made the mistake of thinking that the game was awful because it was being played by women, but, having watched quite a bit of women's football since then, it was awful because it was a shit game of football just like many men's game can be. I enjoyed yesterday's match because it was a good game of football on its own terms.

Last year, a small proportion of England fans disgraced themselves and their country at the men's Euro Final to the extent that games have had to be played behind closed doors as a punishment. Part of the enjoyment I'm getting about England's women winning a major tournament is imaging what sort of reaction the Neanderthals who have gave England men's team supporters the reputation they "enjoyed" through the last few decades are coming out with in reaction to England finally winning the sort of tournament they've so wanted them to be victorious in (especially against the Germans) and then it turns out to be a bunch of girls that did it

That said, it's both strange and revealing to hear English fans talking about the completely different atmospheres at international level between men's and women's games, because the fans of so many men's teams now behave like yesterday's crowd did as a matter of course = Wales men's internationals are joyous occasions now and have been for years, England really do need to catch up.