Last month, Barcelona set a world record for a crowd at a women’s club football match when more than 91,000 people packed into the Nou Camp to see their Champions League semi-final against Wolfsburg. A week later, Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano became the first female boxers to top the bill at Madison Square Garden in New York.
The landmarks keep coming in women’s sport and even though BBC presenter Eilidh Barbour’s walkout at the Scottish Football Writers’ Association dinner last week was an uncomfortable but necessary reminder that some entrenched misogynistic attitudes in the game die hard, there is also evidence that the sport is attracting a burgeoning new audience.