Six minutes. That is all Liverpool and Chelsea were able to play after the referees were forced to abandon the match due to a frozen pitch. Despite inspections before the game, the officials thought it was good to go, but after six whole minutes of both clubs slipping and sliding all over the pitch, yet another issue surrounding women’s football gets even more attention.
The progressions that have transpired over the past few years have moved the sport in the right direction, but in back-to-back weeks, the Chelsea Women were at the forefront of two standard football requirements that women in the Women’s Super League and around the world have not had the satisfaction of utilizing.
Fans traveled far and wide to see both the Reds and the Blues face off in a highly anticipated clash that possessed a whole lot of intrigue following Liverpool’s upset victory to open up the season. For the WSL to have three matches on Sunday postponed for the same reason, the league and the sport of women’s football need to see how much further they have to go to get it to where it needs to be. This is the top flight of English football, one of the world’s largest and most well-known women’s football leagues, and this is still a problem.