Vile Man United chants about Phil Foden's mum shows the Premier League has a long way to go

As a female football fan, I can see in just the time I've been going to matches that big changes have taken place within the fan culture and the attitude towards females.

Without giving away my age too much; my first game was as a young girl in 1999 and I have been going to games regularly ever since. I've known nothing different, so I've always been relatively comfortable going as a female but, thinking back, there has been a significant change in the fan culture across those 20-plus years.

There is now far less misogyny within the stands. A popular chant - when I was young - involved poking fun at a player on the ground by singing "she fell over" - implying that the player was acting like a girl.

It's a chant that's not heard half as often now but, if it is, it seems to have morphed into "cheat, fell over."

That's just one example of how the culture has changed without anyone, maybe, even noticing. Football stands now are a far better place to be as a female football fan than just 20 or so years ago.

But an incident in the Manchester derby shows that there is still some way to go to make football stadiums and the football fan culture misogynistic-free zones.

During the time that Manchester City starlet Phil Foden was on the pitch at Old Trafford, sections of Manchester United fans aimed a chant at him using a derogatory term towards his mother.

The chants were rightly called out by City manager Pep Guardiola, who labelled them as "a lack of integrity, class, and they should be ashamed."

Fans will often write the chants off as banter. It's been labelled as "part of the game" by ex-striker Troy Deeney on talkSPORT, but it's something that should - and hopefully will - continue to change over the next few years.

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