I was at Esher on the November 23 to watch my first live women’s rugby game, England v New Zealand. I wasn’t sure what to expect, but I knew more than my dad who asked if they played tag rugby, and a national newspaper reporter who told me ‘I had to double-check the rules...

Running down the road in a short skirt and impossibly high heels, the girl screams. Running with a friend, they are young women trying to get away from the male teenagers shouting abuse at them. One girl ends up falling over in the middle of the road as one of the men makes a grab for her....