VAR starting to feel like a terrifying all-seeing eye

“I just hope it’s a total shitshow circus.”

Megan Rapinoe gets it. The USA star is looking ahead to her team’s eagerly-awaited Women’s World Cup quarter-final against France tomorrow night. She is also explaining, in very eloquent terms, that if women’s football is to truly have a milestone moment, it will come when it can attract a frenzy of hype and nonsense to match the carnivals of claptrap that surround the biggest men’s matches.