The winning women’s game showed football at its enjoyable best

SIR – I stopped watching football years ago (much preferring rugby), but the women’s Euros final, a game of flowing passes and shots on target, reminded me of the game I used to follow.

They have won me over, and I will follow their progress from now on. Linda Dolata London N2

SIR – What a win! Extra pleasure came from no yobs, no oafish chanting, no crowd trouble, no writhing on the ground as if poleaxed – just a lovely crowd enjoying the occasion.

John Taylor

Purley, Surrey

SIR – No hype, no Wags, no missed penalties, but plenty of passion, skill, and determination bringing success to our new European champions. Maybe the FA should find a female manager. Kirsty Blunt

Sedgeford, Norfolk

SIR – In the late 1950s, at primary school in Helensburgh, a friend and I tried to join the boys at football in the playground. They complained. Our teacher told us that “girls don’t play football” and we should play hockey.

I have hated hockey ever since. I’ve never been a football fan either, but I watched on Sunday and thoroughly enjoyed it. Things change, slowly. Heather R L Gibbings

Dumfries

SIR – I see that Eilidh Barbour, the presenter, has complained of the “all white” England women’s team line-up. Surely the best – regardless of colour – should be chosen to compete. I don’t recall complaints about the lack of white participants in the 4 x 100m women’s team at the World Athletics Championships in Oregon.

Jill Morris London W4

SIR – Are England’s men so insecure they can’t just feel glad for England’s women’s excellent victory in the Euros – with 22 goals for only two conceded – instead of trying to appropriate it with their boorish lager-lad rubbish? This is a success in its own right, not a “follow on” from 1966. Winning the Bertoni trophy doesn’t “make up” for the men winning hee-haw since the Jules Rimet trophy.

This is their moment, guys – let them enjoy the fruits of their labours. Mark Boyle

Johnstone, Renfrewshire

SIR – If the FA wants to discourage players, men or women, from taking their shirts off after scoring a goal, the solution is not upgrading the penalty from a yellow to a red card, but by fining the player a week’s wages. Gerard Galvin

Basingstoke, Hampshire

SIR – May anyone still disapprove of and dislike women’s football? I sense that this new national hysteria is already another weapon with which to bully and cancel anyone who refuses to obey the opinion of the herd. Stefan Badham Portsmouth, Hampshire