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The Women's World Cup starts today and runs for 4 weeks.

52 matches, all live on the BBC.

The BBC coverage looks good - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-cup/2019/06/07/bbc-selection-womens-world-cup-cause-optimism-tournament-taken/

A good place to get team overviews / analysis here - https://www.espn.co.uk/football/fifa-womens-world-cup/story/3722054/womens-world-cup-2019-team-previewsschedulehow-to-watchnews-and-analysis

This article is a really interesting insight into womens football - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/07/sports/soccer/world-cup-survey.html

The England team are supposed to be quite good and expected to go deep. I am going to try a watch a bit and see how we go.

Englands World Cup Lionesses is a good watch.  Available on catch up.

Who cooked all the pies.... who cooked all the pies.....

Naughty man!

Post pics of any decent tottee playing here as well please!  ;D

No sport has improved more in the last decade/15 years than women's football

Not watched as much last few years but will certainly be watching a few games, england v scotland 5pm bbc 1 sunday great spot for the game

Finally the Scots are playing on the World stage again! I got Germany in the work sweepstake, so pleased to see that they are ranked second in the world.

Won't make any difference to the result in the France v South Korea game, but can't help thinking that VAR's being allowed to become a joke. How can a player possibly know the relative position of one part of their body to that of their opponent at the split second that the ball is struck by the attacking player? I honestly thought that there had to be a clear an obvious error in the official's initial decision.

Unfortunately this is going to happen a lot because offside is binary.  Before I saw the lines I thought it was definitely onside but the right decision was ultimately made.   I’d modify the rule to say as long as you have a scoring body part behind the mid point you are onside of the last defender and then VAR draws a line from middle of last defenders head or something.  Sooner of later a goal is going to be ruled out due to their man bun being over the line!

Pretty much every video technology in every sport has started off with the rhetoric of saying - we're doing this to stop the 'obvious' mistakes; and all of them have ended up with trying to be 'perfect', and worried about the criticism if they miss something.

I wouldn't be surprised if the average football game ends up with an average of half an hour extra VAR time as a matter of course.

What we need is some way of monitoring the VAR to make sure that doesn't happen.

If you stuck one of the top women’s national teams into men’s football, what league would they be competitive in?

Hard to say the Lyon side would be higher than people think would say it would compare well to rugby and cricket comparisons anyway

Scotland giving this away looked to be a good game until the VAR early

Game on

Scotland been good second half England look to have a few egos to me

England looked knackered second half

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/australian-womens-national-team-lose-70-to-team-of-15yearold-boys-a3257266.html%3famp

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Peaked at 6.1 million viewers yesterday for the England game.

Most watched women's match ever in this country.

The pinnacle of the womens game...

https://twitter.com/mcfc_Alex/status/1138126483355054087?s=20

Actually quite enjoyed the Eng v Scotland game, and the women's game in general is definitely getting more popular, but some of the hyperbole over it all is just crazy. It's the WORLD CUP and there's 13,000 in the stadium for an England v Scotland game? That's poor.

As for having an entirely single sex panel... Well... They should have had a token male on there so they could take over him every time he opened his mouth to say anything

I watched the game and it’s controversial obviously, but have a look at some of the bbc feeds and the comments on FB, we are white cheating racists and it’s all rigged against Africa apparently  ::)

I was impressed by the English players keeping their heads.

FIFA let the ref down when the Cameroon players appeared to be refusing to play: FIFA officials rather than the referee should have approached the Cameroon coach to explain the rulings and the consequences of not restarting the game. Subsequently the ref just tried to take the easiest line.

TBH I think I’d have let the Cameroon goal stand at the beginning of the 2nd half, even if technically incorrect: in these instances where a fraction (retreating player’s heel) of a player is in an offside position it makes VAR look farcical. Whatever happened to common sense? A sensible decision would have mitigated the earlier sense of injustice, perhaps.

Then again, two of the Cameroons should have seen Red cards....

The real loser here is the Women’s game: the lack of understanding of the rules by not only the Cameroon players, but also their coach, was extremely embarrassing. Who wants to watch this joke stuff? And then be worried about criticizing for fear of being branded racist? There’s a job that FIFA need to do now, in order to recover some credibility for Women’s football, but I suspect they’ll continue to be cowardly fence-sitters yet again.

The Swedes are more fit than the English  (;kev;)