The Great Hall at Wembley Stadium is full of the best of the Women’s Super League. They are mooching around, waiting to pass from one camera set-up to the next. Dressed in full kit they will pose for pictures, conduct interviews and record those odd video snippets that illustrate the lineups on TV. It is busy but also expectant, like being backstage before the start of the headline act.
The Super League begins on Friday with an air of expectation. A new calendar, known as the winter season, will be the first in sync with its male equivalent till May. The 10 clubs in the top division, WSL 1, will compete for the title and Champions League qualification, as well as to avoid relegation. Players have been recruited from Europe and they will join home nations players better known by the public than any of their predecessors. More than four million watched England’s European Championship semi-final against Holland. There is the hope, but also the pressure, of bringing more of that attention to the domestic game.
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