BY HEIDI EGGLETON

PEOPLE often argue that there is little equality within sport, especially football.

Men's football is shown regularly on a variety of channels and football fans can tell you the name of every player, not only on their favourite team, but at least five others too.

However, when asked, fans struggle to name even the captain of the women's England team, despite their recent success in winning a World Cup knockout match this week.

So the question is, are people actually interested in watching women play football? And if not, why?

I think this can only be answered by establishing what quality male football has that the women's game lacks.

Each year millions is spent on football and recently there has been a huge push for women's sport to gain more media coverage.

However, is it worth investing in the female game if so few people seem to be taking an interest?

Equality has become hugely important to our society yet is it worth creating such a scene on making women's football bigger if neither women nor men appear to be interested in watching it?

Yet others argue that the public need to have a longer opportunity to gain an interest in women's football if it is to be as successful and competitive as the men's games.

In my opinion, and if I had to make the decision I would go fully ahead with giving women's football more media coverage.

However, I would make stronger links between the men's and women's teams so it becomes clearer that exactly the same game is being played by both sexes.

It think it is crucial that in our forever growing modern society that if we want the next generation of girls growing up and being more involved in sports, that are stereotypically classed as boys sports, that women's football is given more media coverage.