As I was saying to
@Saddleworth2 earlier in the thread (in response to his excellent comments about how the women’s game is improving), women’s football really just needs time (and money, of course) to continue to develop.
Women’s football in most countries has only had a fraction of the time to develop compared to the men’s game (mostly due to cultural stigma and exclusion) — it’ll eventually be just as good from a technical, coaching, and entertainment perspective as the men’s game (which is what so many people seemingly criticise it for) if current trends for improved resourcing and support continue.
Look at the American men’s and women’s teams, where it is actually the reverse (i.e. the men’s team is bobbins and the women’s team are dominant and considered the benchmark) — that is ironically mostly down to cultural differences leading to different resourcing and support of the game in the USA.
I really enjoy watching women’s football — though, I would be lying if I said I “enjoyed” the 20 year-old university players absolutely destroying me in drop-in matches at the weekend here. ;-)
To be fair, though, one of them is in the US national team development programme, so I have that excuse.