Fuck me.. the women did it!!

[Davethecat2000]

Probably millions of threads, but going to say it anyway!!!

It was not because women were shit. It was exactly the opposite. The games became too popular, attracted tens of thousands of fans per match, and a bunch of spiteful bastards at the FA did everything they could to dismantle the infrastructure. Women's football was too good and too popular.

Anyway. Ella Toone's goal today was world class, and Mary Earps got my vote as player of the match. She's an outstanding keeper.

Amazing! So happy for them, I wept. This will transform the woman’s game, these women had to fight so hard to play, generations before them weren’t able to play.
The lack of diversity in the team likely reflects the fact that there still are very limited opportunities for girls to play football in many parts of the country, my dd played for the last 4 years and we had to travel over an hour for some games on a Saturday many places don’t have a girls squad or they don’t have a squad in all age groups. Grass roots football depends on volunteers coaching and organising. Even with a great team of coaches our girls team often struggled to get a pitch, demand for places to play is really high.

And was it him who said how good it is that the players don't spend half the time rolling around on the floor with mock injuries?

I’ve got younger sisters and cousins who are all playing football, they’re so inspired by the Lionesses. My sisters went to watch at Wembley today and I was in bits, just the thought of how incredible that must be for them both to witness. It was a brilliant game

token black player subbed in

Parris has had an injury. It wasn't tokenism happening now, it was protecting her future career that kept her off pitch for most of tournament.

Not bothered about football but glad England beat Germany.,

I watched this with my 10 year old footballer daughter - her team have been county runners up in their age group for the last 2 years. What brilliant role models (half of them, the Man City players, are already on her bedroom wall).

She is about to secondary school - her only Q on new starter evening was "is there a girls football team?". There is, I bet it will be popular now!

Fantastic. And I hate football.
It’s just a game and one we can do as well as you (better).
Good for them and hope they enjoy the victory for a long time,

Amazing match. Fantastic role models. Well done to the generations of women who were the trail blazers who got us to this final

So lovely to see a good natured crowd as well - with lots of women and children. So different from the drunk toxicity of the mens final last year. Funny how a more inclusive crowd with less alcohol creates a better experience for all.

Went out with friends to watch it tonight. I cried. They did it! An amazing moment for football and for women. They did it they did it they did it!!!

Aside from the phenomenal win, the inspiration felt from women achieving the impossible will genuinely be felt for decades to come with little girls who never before had a role model.

Amazing

Fabulous, honestly what an achievement. Hope women's football is on the up and up.

I agree. Last year when Italy sang their national anthem they are booed. I was embarrassed. Tonight m, both sides were so respectful.

I really hope the Lionesses are feeling the effects of what they’ve done and realising they are never going to be the same again.

So happy for them all.

They were magnificent. Just magnificent. Social media with their sour attitude to women can be ignored; they are not the majority's spokesmen with ideas from the fifties.

At my secondary school (left in 2015 so not long ago at all), girls were not allowed to play football in PE. We were allowed to do gymnastics, dance, badminton and netball and boys did football, basketball, rugby and cricket. My younger cousin goes to the same school and says it hasn’t changed. I hope it does now. We have such a long way to come. We’ve done amazing, especially considering women were only allowed to play football again 50 years ago

Well, I've never cried at a football match before. It's a pleasure to watch. Seems like a real genuine hunger just to play brilliant football, not taking fake dives and cheating and the players just waiting to get back on their private jets. Fanbloodytastic!!!

We’ve been watching the ladies for years in our house so it’s great the nation has come out to support them. Showing the men how it’s done...
waiting for all the misogynistic comments about how men’s football is a higher standard....
ive seen more heart in those ladies than I ever have the men. Made the country proud and did something the men haven’t done.... sounds about right...

I am not a football fan but I was crying when the score reached 2-1 at the thought of what this means for women's football, the inspiration for women and girls up and down the country, the changes to come. Such a triumph.

And such a wonderful match to watch too - no fake diving, no up in the face of the ref, no pulling on opposition shirts - men and boys, take note.

Funny you should say that, I went to the same school as Chloe Kelly, with one of her brothers , years before her.. we were allowed to play football, some of the boys didn’t mind us playing with them and some of them hated it. Some times all the girls got put together because some of the lads complained. We had a girls football team. That was back in the early 2000’s, we had a boy and girls team for every sport. Some schools saw girls potential even back then. About the only good thing my school did do .

Of course, we were banned because it was too popular but throughout the entirety of that time being banned men never admitted it was because we were too good! They’ve only ever told us we’re shit! That was certainly the narrative when I was growing up!

All I meant is the ribbing is relative to who’s doing it - the oppressor or the oppressed.

Women commenting that we’ve achieved what the men couldn’t, after being ridiculed for so long at even the mere suggestion we’d like to play football, doesn’t carry the same weight as men minimising a female win and trying to put it on a par with a win of their own.

Anyways, regardless, I think we’re all just bloody delighted for the win!!!

Hmm. I'm not sure we were watching the same match. Seven bookings (should have been more). Oberdorf and Stanway could both have been sent off. Jill Scott has gone viral for screaming 'fuck off you fucking prick' in Lohman's face after being chopped down by her. Earps faked an injury to waste time and try to get Schuller in trouble (she got a soft booking). There were pushes, shoves, shirt pulling and meaty tackles.

It was blood and thunder, and bloody fantastic. You don't become champions by taking a step backwards. Let's not try and sanctify elite athletes just because of their sex.

I fairness to Jill Scott, the Germany player grabbed her chest and threw her to the floor. I’d have told her to duck off as well

They were so brilliant. I am so happy.

No football for girls in PE when I was at school, just my friend and I in the corner of the playground at break playing together, whilst the boys took up the rest of the room.

I am so happy and so emotional.

But also so sad and angry my teenage son's football mad friends didn't watch and the only posts on my social media were women. So much misogyny around. How can so many men who love football not have watched?!

Bloody brilliant. Well done lionnesses!

Me too. These are serious athletes, and emotions run high. There is a wining-is-everything attitude at this level for men and women. I would describe the German team as extremely robust. That is why they have been so dominant.

I saw a post on Facebook congratulating the Lionesses on their win from a man, he said “Congratulations to them on their win but lay off the jokes and leave it to a woman comments.
Let’s not compare mens football to women’s, mens football is a harder game, we play harder, tackle harder and take more risks”
That sounds like sour grapes to me.
I am going to have strong words with him, he’s my nephew.