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England: Heroic Lionesses changed women's football forever by taking Euro 2022 glory against Germany

At 7.51pm on a balmy Sunday night on the last day of July, England captain Leah Williamson lifted the European Championship trophy in front of 87,192 fans at Wembley and changed the sport forever.

The glory and simplicity of 'England 2 Germany 1' in the Euro 2022 final, watched by a peak TV audience of 17.4million with nearly six million more streaming online, in itself an utterly seminal moment in women's football, would have been enough.

But football is so much more than just a results game, and the macro- and micro-implications in and outside sport are of an almost indescribable magnitude.