The record crowd expected for Chelsea v Manchester United is the latest signifier of stunning rise of the women’s game
for Arsenal’s Champions League semi-final against Wolfsburg. This stuff is now priced in, expected, assumed.Photograph: Mike Hewitt/Getty Images
The FA Cup final has neither of these advantages. The majority of tickets for this game were sold before the identity of either of the two finalists was known, and thus without the benefit of a substantial marketing campaign. Filling Wembley for a game of club football therefore marks the point at which it is legitimate to talk about women’s football as a national ritual, a genuine mass entertainment product. And really, none of this would have happened without the work of those who went before.
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