Phil Neville urges top clubs to ‘throw open’ stadiums for women’s matches

• England Women manager calls on domestic game to think big
• Neville says free tickets would draw huge crowds

Phil Neville wants clubs such as Manchester United, Arsenal and Chelsea to “throw open” their stadiums for women’s matches. The England Women manager feels that, with free tickets for such games, huge crowds could attend and said: “Let’s blow away the rest of Europe.”

On 17 March there was a crowd of 60,739 at the Wanda Metropolitano for Atlético Madrid against Barcelona, an attendance said to have set a world record for a women’s club match.

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