My daughter is trying hard to get into a major club in the UK so I feel particularly strongly about this.

The women's game is unjustifiably sh'it because it is underinvested and under-supported in the media; from grassroots level to the top.

In Spain, she was a beast playing for the women's arm of a La Liga team banging in 10+ goals in one season after doing 20+ goals in previous clubs. She's determined to make it in the UK instead. And has even bagged a double hattrick in one lower league match. And a hattrick in her last. The structure in the UK is a total fu'cking mess after the FA blocked her from playing for over a year (UK born and passport holder).

There is a weird and hard-to-understand element in the UK women's game that doesn't accelerate talent - there is a tinge of racism and elitism that is hard to pin down but it is there. It is largely unconscious but it is undeniable. Just look at the race split versus the mens game and it is perplexing.

You have to rage against the machine to progress. The facilities, pitches, scouting, pay, sponsorship, grassroots encouragement, diversity, coaching, feeds through to a massive disparity vs the mens game.

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The massive score lines are easy to explain. They are a reflection of two factors:

1) how seriously each side takes more aspects of the game - funding, training, etc
2) standard of goalkeeping vs the strikers on the pitch that day. Once the keeper is not fit for purpose that day (many are atrocious) and the strikers are on it, it's a cricket score.