Bit of history being made at the moment in Serraville in the Nations League with the first all-female refereeing team to take charge of a senior men's international.
Referee
Kateryna Monzul (UKR)
Assistant referees
Oleksandra Ardasheva (UKR)
Maryna Striletska (UKR)
Fourth official
Anastasiya Romanyuk (UKR)
And yet they can't find three female officials for most of the top English women's matches.
With the exception of a few assistants like Sian M-E and Natalie Aspinall, female officials in England don't seem to progress, and certainly not in the middle.
I was present on the night Amy Fearn refereed the last 20 minutes of a Championship game at Coventry. I believe she is still the only female to referee any part of a FL match. Incredibly that was nearly 11 years ago and there hasn't been a lot of progress in that time. She seemed perfectly competent on that night so why has so little happened in the meantime?
When I qualified as a referee in 1969 I was on the same course as the first woman to take the course in the Birmingham County FA area. She passed with flying colours but was told she could not register as a referee because she was female, so she struggled to get any games. I was running an under 18 team at the time so when there was no appointed referee I got her to take a few games and she acquitted herself really well. But it was an uphill struggle and I believe she gave up after a year or two.
Incidentally, I did watch the San Marino-Gibraltar match yesterday and I have to say I didn't think the referee did that well. It got a bit feisty near the end as SM wasted time shamelessly, and she did seem to be intimidated by what was happening at times.