The End of Football? - Tom Palmer

I was walking across a park in Cambridge recently and saw this sprayed onto the ground. The picture seems fitting now. The football season is over. No Leeds United games for two months.

Do you feel it on Saturdays? That lack of something.

My wife picks up on it. What's the matter with you? she asks. Have Leeds lost again?

No, I tell her. It's worse: they're not even playing.

But don't despair. There IS football. It's the Women's World Cup from 26 June. And England are in it to win it.

http://www.fifa.com/womensworldcup/matches/index.html

If you want to know more about the women's game, you are better listening to Helena Pielichaty than me. I hope she will be blogging about it here. She writes the Girls FC series and it is very good. Her daughter
used to play for West Brom.

I love football, so I will love watching England's women. But I still have my eye on 17 June, when the Leeds fixtures are out and on 31 July, when I am taking my daughter to Leeds v Newcastle, the pre-season game.