Larry Ryan: Monstering up women's football with a new broadcast deal

This week’s news of the broadcast deal to show up to 66 Women’s Super League games each season on Sky and BBC surely brings designer washbags a step closer for all. But for now, a living wage would be a start.

OUT OF REACH: Chelsea’s Samantha Kerr rounds Wolfsburg goalkeeper Katarzyna Kiedrzynek to put the Blues on their way to a 2-1 victory in
Wednesday’s Champions League quarter-final first leg at the Ferenc Szusza Stadium in Budapest. Picture: Zsolt Szigetvary/MTI via AP

A landmark week means an important philosophical question may soon be upon us — do we want the best female footballers in the world to own Louis Vuitton washbags too?

It is five years now since football’s most solid citizen, Seamus Coleman, ruled that Louis Vuitton washbags represented all that had gone wrong with the men’s game.