This year’s Women’s FA Cup final between will be watched by a sell-out crowd at Wembley, but that growth has brought questions of its own about the future... twoht
And there is a germ of a point to be made about this. Growing a sport carries considerable benefits, but it also comes with potential costs. The explosion of interest in the women’s game has been unprecedented in the 160-year history of football in this country, but this has also meant that it can no longer be what it used to be.
With a handful of games still to play, the gap between leaders Manchester United and fourth-placed Manchester City is six points, but the gap between City and fifth-placed Aston Villa is 11. That can be seen in the Women’s FA Cup, too. Only five of the last 20 teams to take part in the Women’s Cup final were not one of these four clubs – and none of that quintet won it.
And all of this starts to raise some uncomfortable questions, the most obvious of which is whether it is desirable for the women’s game to start opening up the sort of inequalities that exist in the men’s game.
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