‘The Gap’ in the WSL remains – but creating competition takes time‎

Good news first: it’s definitely shrinking. It being ‘The Gap’. The Gap being the space between the Women’s Super League’s entrenched top three and the rest. It is, though, assailable by pre-match face painting and savvy coaching and, if you’re Birmingham City, who snagged a point off Arsenal on Saturday, Oceane Hurtre’s left foot. Of course, The Gap is still there if you’re, say, Tottenham Hotspur or Brighton & Hove Albion, the former having suffered a 6-2 defeat to Chelsea before the latter fe