Lionesses

In the early hours of this morning I watched the England Women's football team win through to the World Cup semi-finals, beating their Canadian hosts 2-1 in a tense game; I have enjoyed watching most games, finding the standard much improved from four years ago, but they still lag behind the men in important aspects of the game – diving for free kicks, petitioning for red and yellow cards, appealing for every decision no matter how obvious the outcome, and rolling about feigning injury – and long may that continue.