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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Jonathan Liew at the Emirates Stadium

The full-time mood: bleak. The future for women’s football: dazzling

Arsenal's Leah Williamson (left) and Vivianne Miedema (in jeans) console Lotte Wubben-Moy as the Arsenal players look dejected after their defeat after extra time during the UEFA Champions League semi-final 2nd leg match between Arsenal Women and VfL Wolfsburg Ladies at the Emirates Stadium.
The Arsenal players: dejected. Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The Guardian

The public bins: full to overflowing.
Holloway Road underground station: so crowded as to be essentially impassable.
The pubs: spilling out on to the pavements.
The pavements: spilling out on to the streets.

Leah Williamson: for some reason, and to the general rapture of social media, pulling pints behind the bar at The Tollington.
The programme queues: sizeable.
The Emirates: sold out.
The Arsenal men’s team: not playing tonight.

The attendance the last time Arsenal played a Champions League semi-final at home, 10 years ago: 1,406.
What the Champions League was called back then: the Uefa Women’s Cup.
The record crowd for a game of women’s club football in the UK until tonight: 49,094.
The record now: 60,063.
The most frequent refrain you hear about women’s football: nobody cares.

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