Women’s Football: More than just family-friendly

Tickets for Bromley’s men’s matches can be hard to come by these days, not to mention expensive when you’ve got a family in tow, so watching Bromley Women offers a pocket-pleasing, family-friendly alternative.

In that spirit, I went to watch Bromley versus Clapton Community on Sunday, but the football was so entertaining that I found myself wondering if we do women’s football a disservice by reducing it to pithy phrases like family-friendly. That’s certainly not all it is.

My daughter, Emma, who would be keen to tell you she’s three and three-quarters, has been showing a passing interest in football, so a trip to watch Bromley Women seemed like a good place to start. I ringmarked the fixture with Clapton Community because I admire the club’s ethos, which encompasses all of my favourite shades of ‘utter woke nonsense’, but as luck would have it, Bromley were putting on a family fun day in tandem. Lucky daddy.