Should women’s football have different rules from men’s?
Women are not just smaller men
A little boy, face covered in red and white paint (and a dab of ketchup) screams with delight when England equalise with Colombia in their quarter-final match. Stadium Australia, just outside Sydney, is packed. Your correspondent is rubbing shoulders with England fans in white and red, Colombian ones in yellow and Australians giddy from their team’s earlier victory over France.
This article appeared in the Science & technology section of the print edition under the headline “A game of two sexes”
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