![]() ![]() Today, though, fans in packed sports bars and pubs are living the women’s European Championship much as they always have men’s football: with one-eyed patriotism, speculating uninformed about dressing-room “spirit” or coaches’ motivational skills. A decade ago, whenever women’s football did get mentioned, it was often smothered in pious praise for the lowly paid Stakhanovite performers who unlike the men remained “real people”. Another measure is the collective conversation. ![]() The 90,000 crowd at Wembley for Sunday’s European Championship final between England and Germany will be the tournament’s largest ever. To grasp how women’s football has become part of everyday life, one measure is the constant breaking of attendance records. England’s Beth Mead, in white, scores the opening goal against Sweden on Tuesday © Reuters
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