What about the women's world cup?!

Why are the neutrals booing England?
That said it's working because we're falling to pieces here....

I feel sorry for the ref

Again the VAR decision was correct, but oh dear Cameroon

Blimey Cameroon are not having fun with the VAR this afternoon... think this will get a bit feisty now...

What was that all about!?

Yes! Right decision. ⚽️⚽️

VAR...

Their no7, Onguene, got booed for unsporting behaviour in the Holland match. She is a good player with Neymar tendencies.

They elbow, spit and kick lumps out of you.

Cameroon do not play nicely.

As a non football fan, I’m enjoying it but really disappointed at the lack of coverage away from the BBC. Waitrose today had 6 or more different sticker packs but not the World Cup. I made a point of asking a member of staff where they were and why they weren’t stocking them. Guardian sport still has mostly on cricket, cycling etc, will be interested to see if they cover netball next month - last netball article I saw there was a report of the team captain retiring to start a family.

I knew that about women's football being banned for fear it would become more popular than the men's game.

I have to say, as a football fan in general I'm very much enjoying the WWC. There's an awful lot less rolling about and diving than there is in the men's game. Also better football across the board imo.

Erin Cuthbert and Jen Beattie have to be my stand out players. I'm obviously biased as a Scot but I think we were done out of a couple of penalties and unfairly penalised with ambiguous VAR decisions.

That said, I'm still watching!

Oh - I also thought people on this particular thread would find it interesting.

I have no idea if someone has already posted something like this but last night or the night before I saw Sandy Toksvig talking about women's football and she was saying that after the war women's football was EXTREMELY popular. Then it was banned from the place (I'm not sure if it was a pitch or pitches) for 50 years (!) so it wouldn't become more popular than the men's . She was on some sports programme. I hadn't known that before but it doesn't surprise me. Apologies if I'm just repeating what someone else may have already said in more detail. I just found it interesting and a new bit of feminist trivia I wasn't aware of.

Not long to go!

I am watching The Netherlands v Canada. Canada had a penalty changed to a free kick and a goal disallowed for offside, Holland have hit the bar and post. Hup Holland!

The world cup squads consist of 23 players, all with their own shirt numbers. Shirt numbers don't change during a tournament. Goalies can be substituted but it rarely happens, usually because of injury. Sometimes they change goalies before a penalty shoot out.

Last year's teams in the FA Women's Super League (WSL) were Arsenal, Man City, Chelsea, Birmingham, Bristol, Reading, Liverpool, West Ham, Brighton, Everton, Yeovil

Well done England. Feel really sorry for the Scots. Saw the documentary about them on iplayer.
More very basic questions from me:
How many players are actually on the team? Do goalies ever get substituted? Do players always play with the same numbers? Who are the top English women’s teams? Lyon seems to be a main one in France, I’ve watched 2 of theirs as well.

The premiership have already announced (can't remember if it was today's telegraph or times) that they won't be applying it next season.
Because as a pp explained, a penalty is meant to rectifa missed chance at scoring, so should offer a chance, not a guaranteed goal. The new rule makes it impossible for keepers.

Agreed, and I don't like the new rule. I think the few times a good penalty is saved makes for really good football, and this will make them rarer.

The rule change coming at the start of this tournament rather than on 8 July when it finishes is absurd.

(And not discrimination against women because the Euro Under-21s are also having to deal with this.)

Goalkeepers have been coached for years based on the old rule. (You must not put your foot down in front of the line) and now must keep a foot on the line.

FIFA are arseholes, as ever.

(And oooh, Monsieur Platini, we'd like you to aidez-nous avec nos enquetes.)

You lucky thing Needmoresleep - enjoy.

Commiserations to Scotland - what a cruel, cruel way to go out.

Well done England but the second half was sloppy and worrying - teams like USA, France and Germany will punish us for those mistakes. Still, its good to see that we can score goals in the third third and make decent chances. I am loving watching these strong athletic women being great role models on the pitch

Great game for England again tonight.

I think our women are much better than our men.

From the pics I''ve seen, and I can't judge how good the camera angles are, it looks as though the penalty against Scotland wasn't a pen (outside the area) and the keeper had her heel above the line when the ball was kicked so it was a legit save. I'm an England fan so it's not sour grapes, but I'll try and watch proper highlights tomorrow if I can find them.

Another good game although I think the second goal was completely against the run of play and it was a shame for Japan because they played well just couldn't finish it.

YES ENGLAND!

Does sound like the Scotland Argentina match would have been the one to watch though, blimey what excitement. And heartbreak.

I work that out as England playing China on Sunday. Should be a good one