MATT BELL looks at how changing the dates of the season could help club and country…

JULY 12, 2016 should be a date remembered by fans of women’s football: it should be recalled as the day that positive reforms continued.The Women’s World Cup in 2015 caught the attention of the British public, with the tournament in Canada making heroes of players like Steph Houghton and Lucy Bronze.We all felt the pain of Laura Bassett as her own goal knocked England out at the semifinal stage, an English (male or female) team’s best performance on foreign soil since Ital...