'Women’s game is still playing second fiddle'

Sunday was a day that started with such high expectations. By midday reality had closed in. England’s brave Lionesses had lost 1-0 to Spain in the final of football’s World Cup. We are to have no new tales, to be recalled in years to come, of the ultimate achievements of Lauren Hemp, Alessia Russo, Ella Toone or Chloe Kelly. However, that penalty save by goalkeeper Mary Earps – Mary Queen of Stops – will live long in the memory but even that will not dull the disappointment of the defeat