Just been messaging my friend who's married to a Spanish woman and is over there visiting her family at the moment (proper Spanish town not a tourist town). Says there's been basically no interest in the game there. No one talking about it, no flags up, no meeting at the pub to watch it...
Well done girls! Kelly’s the only decent penalty out of the 9. Who cares though.
Didn't you see the sub Charles pen ? Kelly penalty strike was the hardest hit ball in this year's Euros. She hit a pen hard like that which beat unlucky Nigeria in the WC KO.
Was really impressed with Charles when she came in & her peno was excellent 👌
I live in the Algarve 20km from the Spanish border and watched the game in our local Irish bar. I was expecting a fair few Spaniards to be supporting their team but just one young girl, probably in her late teens, showed up in her teams shirt. Tbf, she took the (friendly) stick in good spirits!
Really enjoyed watching the women's team and I am well chuffed for them!
A brief comment from Fanny to say for the first time, we watched most of the semi final & the entire match tonight.
Whilst the men's game will be always be no 1 by far for us, we were impressed by the women & will look forward to their next big tournament, the World Cup in Brazil in 2027.
They were a credit to our country & as other Lifers have stated tonight, it was a pleasure to watch them in contrast to the England men whose matches we usually switch off these days.
As a father of a former women’s college player over here in the states I have always had respect for the women’s game…whole hearted effort every game ! Well done England
What was nice, and surprised me the most last night, was the fact that I turned Sky Sports on last night, expecting to watch the IndyCar coverage from 8pm - Instead Sky were showing an old Lewis Hamilton type segment, rather than the feed from FOX Sports which SKY piggy backs off.
Initially thought it was because the F1 had been delayed earlier, but did a bit of digging (worried I'd miss the start), and was actually because the Women's Final had ran over what with going to penalties and was being shown on FOX as well... IndyCar came on eventually, but the race was delayed as well by about five minutes, because FOX hadn't switched straight over after the end of the Football, and covered the after match stuff too.
Just a nice little sign of how Women's Football is expanding, and the attention our amazing Lionesses deserved, not just here in UK, and Europe... But the world too!! - Although Women's Football does seem to be the much bigger "version of Football in the States.
Followed the tournament from start to finish. To be honest, from the France game, I thought England would come up short as it felt (IMHO), we weren't quite good enough. But we kept plugging away every game, including a series of come backs in the last three games. First time a women's team won the tournament after losing the first game, so looks as if we peaked perfectly.
And living in Spain, I really wanted that win last night.
Spain played some really good football and England showed great character to win. A proper battling team effort.
The knockout games have not lacked excitement. Given how poor we were in the opening game against France we've improved throughout the tournament and been a great advert for the women's game.
Just been messaging my friend who's married to a Spanish woman and is over there visiting her family at the moment (proper Spanish town not a tourist town). Says there's been basically no interest in the game there. No one talking about it, no flags up, no meeting at the pub to watch it...
Hope he still went down the town square and chucked a few plastic chairs around
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Really enjoyed watching the women's team and I am well chuffed for them!
Whilst the men's game will be always be no 1 by far for us, we were impressed by the women & will look forward to their next big tournament, the World Cup in Brazil in 2027.
They were a credit to our country & as other Lifers have stated tonight, it was a pleasure to watch them in contrast to the England men whose matches we usually switch off these days.
No surprise for me with the stats where England had 35.1% possession.
Initially thought it was because the F1 had been delayed earlier, but did a bit of digging (worried I'd miss the start), and was actually because the Women's Final had ran over what with going to penalties and was being shown on FOX as well... IndyCar came on eventually, but the race was delayed as well by about five minutes, because FOX hadn't switched straight over after the end of the Football, and covered the after match stuff too.
Just a nice little sign of how Women's Football is expanding, and the attention our amazing Lionesses deserved, not just here in UK, and Europe... But the world too!! - Although Women's Football does seem to be the much bigger "version of Football in the States.
And living in Spain, I really wanted that win last night.
The knockout games have not lacked excitement. Given how poor we were in the opening game against France we've improved throughout the tournament and been a great advert for the women's game.
Lucy Bert Trautmann Bronze 👏🏼