I have little to no interest in the woman's team. The only player name I know is the local girl Missy Bo Kearns. And that's only down to her being Curtis' mate. And Matt Beard the manager. Like most lads, the woman's game just has zero interest to me.
But coming from a football mad City where I've grown up with the majority of females having an interest in the game, supporting a club who had a large demographic of female supporters going the match before many other clubs and
LONG before Italia 90, and then the PL, dragged football kicking and screaming into a new, fashionable age and made it a friendly, attractive, all inclusive place to go for all genders and ethnicities; I've always been a big advocate of the woman's game finding it's own path and growing. So young girls can not only have their own heroes they can emulate on the pitch, but actually see a viable career path in the game like we always dreamed of in the men's professional game.
You don't need to like something to appreciate just what it brings to others and how important it can be in enriching peoples lives.
So it's always really irked me that Liverpool
'claim' to have a woman's team. Using the girls in all their promotional packages as being part of the L'pool family. Together as one. Whilst simultaneously ostracising them over the water to play and train. And putting the bare minimum in investment into the team. You can't promote yourself as an all inclusive football club. And then
NOT include the woman's team who represent you! L'pool have failed the girls badly for long enough now and the clubs attitude toward them has been to our detriment and shame.
Credit where credit is now due to Liverpool. This is a massive step in the right direction to writing those wrongs and finally fully embracing the woman's team into the all inclusive football club we pertain to be. Super smart move from L'pool from every aspect. With the added bonus to the community of the kids still being there from Jamie and Robbie's Academy set-up.
The girls being one of the very few WSL teams to have their own dedicated training facility is superb to see in itself.
For that facility to be Melwood, bringing the arl' place and all the ridiculous memories it holds in our storied history back into the fold, is the perfect way for the football club to hopefully start taking one of the teams that represents them Nationally far more seriously.
