Women’s football no longer needs to prove itself, say self-starting reporters

Two self-starting women’s football reporters covering the World Cup have said the women’s game no longer needs to “prove” itself.

Rachel O’Sullivan, 34, from Dublin, and Sophie Downey, 36, from London, launched Girls on the Ball – an online platform for women’s football in the UK and Ireland – in 2012 having been inspired by a trip to watch Great Britain against Brazil at Wembley during the 2012 London Olympics.