Everton Women held in first Goodison derby

They played them off the Park, and won 3-0, in the reverse game, this season, at our old ground, so I'm hoping this can be a good positive for Everton FC, to take into the club over the international break.

Hopefully there will be no injuries and a full squad available, for Spurs, and to beat Spurs.

Good to see Isaac Price, debut for NI, and start. NImho, a very good player, in the making, but Evertons, situation, doesn't help the good players, in the ranks, whom, have stood out.

I reckon, a few will leave this end of season, to further their football careers.
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Agree it could go pear-shaped (crowd-wise) if insufficient numbers turn up, hope it's on TV somewhere. Again my old hobby horse: a club of our size not having a proper TV channel, nearly all other major, and minor Clubs do, we have to either share Liverpool's or Man Utd's or whoever, for games like this or Youtube.

Be interesting to see if the Fat Maggot turns up for this one!

Perhaps they'll stay at home rather than support the women's game developing at our club. They are a shambles if none of them are there tonight

I can't see Moshiri coming over from Monaco to watch a ladies football match.

Scroll down the schedule and you'll see the game listed.

For anyone who hasn't been watching, it's on Showcase, and Jess Park has just had a cracking goal ruled out.

Some quality football on show too.

Oh for fuck's sake, it's a joke.🤦🏼‍♂️

Something goes in Everton's favour and still you're not happy.

My northern mum would've said that girl prefers pints not halves, but it was a good game in the end.

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At what point did I say I wasn't happy?

I didn't see anything wrong with the goal, that's all.

I'm going to complain about this. Players' derby, players' stadium.

Wonder who was Woman of the Match?

I sometimes struggle to watch the actual Premier League, so I find it even more difficult to watch games like tonight's encounter between the old foes of Merseyside. Good luck to those that do enjoy it, but it's not for me.

Only being familiar with a couple of our players' names was a major snag as the commentary often failed to mention whether it was us or Liverpool who had the ball. On one occasion, a corner was awarded, and taken, without me having any idea whether it was for us or them. Only when the commentator said the ball had been cleared and Everton were breaking was it clear that they'd had the corner.

Radio Merseyside need to get their act together and take on board that many of the names are unfamiliar to listeners.

Made me proud to be an Evertonian of some 60 years listening to them enthuse when they rang me after the match and hopefully those two girls will be back and continue to support their "new" team.

I watched it. It is not men's football but I could still appreciate the effort. Not sure why, when it's Everton v Liverpool and at Goodison, that more of our fan base take no interest. The club means a lot to me and that love extends to the very bricks and mortar, the smell of the place, the look, the memories it all evokes throughout me.

I might be a different sort of supporter… men, women or kids.

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Women's football has evolved massively over the last 10 years and since a lot of teams went professional. Last night, there were a number of very good technical players, a number of players who were far more comfortable on the ball than many of our men's first team, and a refreshing change in seeing the amount of respect for officials. It also sets a good example for kids – which is something the men's game doesn't.

I took my daughter to Goodison for the first time last night, she started playing football about 18 months ago in goal. Brosnan is now her favourite player. She was superb last night.

There's plenty of women's games nowadays that I'd rather watch over the men's games. Obviously the men's Everton team will always take preference but, given the choice of watching Brentford vs Bournemouth or a decent women's game, I'd go for the latter.

Overall – really good game last night.

I enjoy watching woman's football and you see some very good players in a lot of games, such as last night's game. You also see a lot of poor play but the woman's game is still evolving.

If you looked at the game of 10 years ago and now, there is a vast improvement, but of course some football fans are just not interested in the woman's game and that is fair enough.

I don't think you could compare the two games. I think a Sunday league team would always beat the best of the woman's game simply because of the physical difference between the two although you do see some robust tackles going in now and again.

You could pick out some really good all-round woman footballers but they would stand out as rarities: Lucy Bronze, the English right back was one of them. But, as I love football, I enjoy any football match – and I understand fans who couldn't care less about the women's game.