A LATE goal. Nothing worse in football than to lose by a goal in the dying embers of a match. For 90 minutes the team has defended brilliantly and just when you think you have grabbed a crucial point, it is ripped away from you just like that.

No, I am not talking about the Champions League final. I am of course talking about the Women’s World Cup opener, Canada taking on China.

A 92nd minute penalty was dispatched by Christine Sinclair to give the hosts the three points. It was a thrilling encounter, one that China would have thought they had done enough to get at least a point.

The first few games have been fun. Germany’s utter destruction of the Ivory Coast was the talking point of the morning on Monday.

Not often is that the case, my comrades at the Star discussing football. But it was fascinating watching the Germans play OK and yet reach double figures.

There are so many things I could have spoken about this week. The ongoing Fifa debacle. The vile Leicester “players” (I use the term loosely). But it is only right that I focus on something good in the game.

However, I found myself angry on Sunday evening as I settled down for the evening to watch Norway take on Thailand.

First, it was on the red button on the BBC. BBC One was showing the Canadian Grand Prix. Nothing wrong with that at all. But Sky Sports has a dedicated channel for the sport.

Even if you moved the football to BBC Two, Three or Four, it would have been better than chucking it on the red button where some people would not have been aware that it was on.

Anyway, it was there and it was on. I missed the opening 20 minutes as I played the final fixture of the inaugural three-sided football season.

No problem, the half-time analysis would fill in what I had missed. But there was none. Instead, a loop of the goals was shown. I’m glad I got to see the goals but why was there no-one talking about how easy things had been for Norway?

Did the 2014 World Cup get the same treatment? Don’t think so. The BBC sent a whole host of pundits and commentators to make sure viewers got the full watching experience, regardless of who was playing. Why are we not treated the same for the women’s tournament?

I am very pleased that Jacqui Oatley has been flown to Canada along with a few players, Rachel Finnis-Brown, Natasha Dowie and Rachel Yankey to name a few but as always more could have been done.

And we move on to Yankey. This is a pet peeve of mine and has been for ages. When will we start addressing her as England’s all-time cap holder?

She has 129. Peter Shilton has 125. 129 is bigger than 125. It’s not rocket science. Yet pundits, commentators and a lot of people in the media totally ignore this fact.

When the BBC showed an interview with Sweden striker Lotta Schelin, she spoke about how she is up there with Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Henrik Larsson as her nation’s record goal-scorers.

In fact, Shelin is head and shoulders above the two mentioned. The current Sweden captain is on 80. Ibrahimovic is on 53, Larsson is on 37. The former Celtic striker is 4th on the list, at least 6th on mine.

When England played Republic of Ireland on Sunday, Wayne Rooney failed to score meaning he is stuck on 47, still behind Gary Lineker on 48 and Bobby Charlton on 49. But the records fail to show Kelly Smith on 46.

This needs to change. Or at least be specific, differentiate between men and women’s football.

For those that follow me on Twitter, you would know I fell in love on Sunday night. Not with a player but an item of clothing. Socks to be specific.

Germany’s kit is amazing but their socks. Wow. Just wow. I immediately took to social media to tell the world that I needed a pair of these for myself.

Danielle Lowe replied, saying that she wanted the Ivory Coast pink goalkeeper shirt. So we each set about trying to find what we wanted online.

Easy right? Not at all. I could not find these socks anywhere. The Germans have different kits for their male and female national sides. This I totally agree with. But my usual online sources for kits failed to show any of the women World Cup shirts.

The official Fifa Women’s World Cup site doesn’t advertise any kits. The shop only has five shirts. Germany home and away, Mexico, Spain and Colombia.

So I tried the Adidas store. Nothing. The German Adidas store had the shirt but that’s it.

Luckily, James Rodie found them for me on Monday morning — with ease I should add.

But they didn’t have my size. (I do hope that this is the style Adidas use for their socks this season, it is the best they have released in years).

Now England’s women share the same kit as the men, just a different fit.

But if you go on the Football Association’s shop online, there is nothing promoting the women’s side as they gear up for the World Cup.

There is something for Father’s Day and a promotion for “legends” shirts but nothing for women.

When you eventually find the women’s kit, the only names you can get on the back are those of the men’s side. No Jill Scott, Steph Houghton, Lianne Sanderson. No-one.

No women’s shorts or socks. How can we promote girls to get involved if we are limiting what they can buy?

The coverage by some media outlets and the fact that there is a media team out in Canada is great. But it’s just a start.