Time for FIFA, and everyone, to better reward women footballers

Thanks for that, Papa Smurf. I love everyone, too, but my patience would be sorely tested if I was getting disproportionately paid for my efforts while FIFA backstrokes in swimming pools of cash.

The issue of pay and prizemoney equity is one of sport’s trickiest issues, not always well argued by either side of the debate. Comparisons are fraught with danger.

Men’s sport is the forever bankable powerhouse while…