WITH the World Cup over and the Premier League over a month away, football fans are left scratching their heads wondering what they will watch now to get their football fix.

The answer is easy — the Women’s Super League.

For those who are new to women’s football, where have you been? The game is played in the right way, you won’t find racists, cheaters, divers or any of the rubbish fans have to put up with watching the men’s game.

Players aren’t paid extortionate wages and tickets to games don’t cost an arm and a leg. Indeed, the women’s game is far more family-friendly.

You won’t get the obscene chants you do at football grounds up and down the country, where rival fans find the need to call each other every name under the sun while spewing vile and disgusting chants at the opposition all because they signed on the dotted line for another club.

Furthermore, managers are given a chance at this level.

With new clubs starting, it has taken a while for some teams to establish themselves in the league.

As they find their feet, they are often on the end of heavy score lines as the London Bees found out on Sunday when they lost 13-0 to a much more experienced Chelsea side.

But there was none of the hand-wringing seen in the men’s game as the clubs are building a project and are lot less trigger-happy which is nice to see in a world where people are losing jobs at a disturbingly alarming rate.

Women’s football has come on leaps and bounds over the past few seasons but it hasn’t seen its fair share of coverage in the press.

BT Sport now shows the WSL and BBC hasn’t completely ignored it as it has the mass protests against austerity but there is still work to be done.

The second the World Cup ended Auntie was advertising the return of Match of the Day. Knowing that millions of people were watching, the Beeb could have used that space to advertise its coverage of woman’s football.

People may not know that the BBC even has a show dedicated to women’s football, there was a chance to change that.

But while it’s easy for me as Morning Star sports editor to have a go at the rest of the media, I know our paper could be doing a much better job.

There is still a long way to go before more women are paid enough to turn professional.

Not only do wages need to be improved, attendances have be improve massively.

Some games get a few 100 fans but at the 2012 London Olympics, the British team brought in crowds of thousands and it would be great to see the same level of enthusiasm for league games.

Tonight, there are three games on in the WSL. Liverpool take on Everton in the Merseyside derby, Chelsea take on Arsenal in a London derby and Birmingham will host Bristol Academy who will be hoping they aren’t on the wrong end of another heavy defeat after their 5-0 loss on Sunday against the same opponents.

Tickets to the two derbies are £5 for adults and £3 for under-16s and over-65s.

I know it’s a school night but if you can, go and show your face at one of the games. You won’t be disappointed.

No more Lawrenson, please

IMAGINE my lack of surprise when I tuned into the BBC’s coverage of the World Cup final and was greeted by the voice of Mark Lawrenson. 

 Not only does the former Liverpool player offer no tactical analysis during the game but he has yet to come and apologise for his sexist comment a few weeks ago.

Over the next few hours, Lawrenson couldn’t have sounded less enthused about the game if he tried and it was the same all tournament.

Here is a commentator who is way too comfortable in his job and gives off the impression that football now bores him.

So BBC please do us all a favour and take him off air. Give him a job in a capacity where he can’t air his sexist views to the public.

Let’s get back to playing the England way

YESTERDAY, the Star reported on Gary Neville’s rejection of the idea that England should copy the German “way” in football, finding their own path instead.

He is right — before the World Cup everyone wanted the Three Lions to adopt the Spanish way of playing and use them as a template for success.

As Spain went out, we were told that Belgium are now the way forward and we were asking ourselves why can’t we be more like them.

Once they were out, attention turned to a German side who had spent over a decade preparing for the future and their hard work paid off.

England won the World Cup in 1966 playing its own brand of football.

If England is to once again be a successful footballing nation, we need to start again and implement our own brand of football.

Even if that brand is not the most pleasing, at least it will be ours.