Those are the facts. It's pointless trying to pretend that there's a national interest in women's football and having the matches played in massive stadiums in front of crowds of 1000. It should have been started at a grass roots level and built from there if and when justified.
The business...
I would guess about 100 with probably about 50 of those being freebies.
Why the need to attempt to build a women's league when it is quite clear most people couldn't give a damn?
Men haven't seen women playing netball and said "we want some of that" and set up a men's netball league.