Whatever happened in Stamford Bridge yesterday evening was a mystery to the majority of football fans. The only way to watch the game was on whatever BT Sport has turned into, there may have been radio commentary but I couldn’t find it and the BBC provided no more than their web version of teletext updates.

This for what was probably the biggest game of club football ever involving a British woman’s team.

It’s sad that Chelsea lost, but sadder that both the viewing and listening rights were sold off so that the millions of sports fans who should have been part of this, were excluded.

Meanwhile, BBC 1 was showing a facile rugby game where our Lionesses won their third grand slam in a row in front of a half empty French stadium. I am sorry but the oval ball plays second fiddle to the round one in this household.

In any case, I’m not for sitting down and watching sport, Saturday’s are doing days with pod in ear and shopping basket in hand. What has happened to good old fashioned radio commentary? Surely it cannot be impossible for the British Broadcasting Company to set up a live commentary on one of its channels to listen to this historic game, the first woman’s European game to sell out a senior stadium?

Radio is such a stunning medium for sports commentary, we have brilliant young female sports commentators like Sheridan Robins, reporting for the BBC. It is a crying shame that we can’t make better use of all the bandwidth to get live radio commentary.

Compare and contrast the magnificent coverage of the drama in the EPL which was on BBC radio yesterday afternoon.

I can only conclude that the problem is money and that the exclusivity is down to rights negotiating out public service broadcasting from even radio broadcast.

It’s a sad state of affairs to report and I hope that with all the money coming from the woman’s game ‘s ticket sales and television rights, the radio listener will not be frozen out in future.

Frankly, the European woman’s game has already been captured and lost

Dan (thanks) points out that the rights are with Talk Sport, I could have found them – but it still makes me feel sad that we can’t listen to such a game on the BBC.

As close as we could get!

In the meantime, we can keep supporting woman’s football at grass-roots level.