It’s as if the only way they can relate to women’s achievements is through the prism of their female relatives
. It’s a kind of domestication of public achievement, relegating it outside the world of sports to a down-at-home feel-good story about plucky upstarts.
That bore no resemblance to what we saw in the stadium. There were no nice well behaved girls out there. There was goalkeeper Mary Earps, saving a penalty with a startling degree of pinpoint precision, and then rising up ferociously off the ground toThere was Alex Greenwood, bleeding over her kit after being caught in the face by a high knee, then being bandaged up and making decisive tackles to block surging Spanish players in the final few moments of the match.
In the end, it wasn’t enough. England were outplayed. They weren’t humiliated and they weren’t humbled. But they were defeated by a team that played better on the day. It was a fair defeat and a dignified one.
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