Chelsea manager Emma Hayes has called on the Women's Super League to have "more ambition" amid mounting concerns that the women's game is hazardously undervaluing itself by consistently playing in small stadia.
More than 37,000 fans packed out Stamford Bridge to watch Chelsea's 3-0 London derby victory over Tottenham Hotspur, which fired the Blues to the top of the WSL table over Arsenal and Manchester United. And Hayes admitted in her post-match press conference that she was "absolutely certain" such displays were further proof that the women's game is swiftly outgrowing its current landscape.
“We'd like to be here more,” Hayes said. “I think we all know that solving the conundrum in the women's game around what do we do from small stadia, you know, is there a medium-term plan to go medium-sized stadiums before eventually everybody comes home to the large stadium? I don't know.
