When England’s women’s football team walk out in front of 55,000 fans for their first ever match at the new Wembley against arch-rivals Germany on Sunday, they will be hit by a wall of sound rarely experienced by players on either side. Ticket sales for the inaptly named friendly have, for the first time, outstripped demand for the men’s last friendly at Wembley in a landmark moment for a sport long in the shadow of its older brother. “Sunday’s match is a piece of history – the first time England’s women’s team have played at Wembley for an international,” says Jacqui Oatley, the BBC’s first female football commentator. “This match is the moment that people sit up and notice that the demand is there; now it’s about taking that momentum and running with it.” A grassroots revolution in girls’ football, coupled with the professionalisation of the Women’s Super League (WSL), has brought women’s football to the public attention in a way never seen before. Tickets for Sunday’s game have been capped by the FA because of travel fears linked to engineering works. Without the cap, sales could have reached 70,000, while tens of thousands at home will be watching live…