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JerryGarcia

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The major problem with womens sports for me is simply time. I don't know how much time I spend watching football and discussing Spurs but if you add other sports on top of that it must add up to a ridiculous number of hours. If in order to not appear sexist, I have to then watch an equal amount of womens sports then where will I find time for other fun activites?
 

JerryGarcia

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Bending over to pick the ball up for a free kick or a throw in. Sometimes they do photo shoots and look very fuckable.

You're as sexist as the girls in my class back in school who all used to support Man Utd because of Ryan Giggs's legs. Little did they know that they had no chance with him unless they turned out to be distant cousins or something.
 

nailsy

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Do they televise games involving the Tottenham ladies team? If they did I might watch that occasionally. I'm not really interested in any of the other sides.
 

tommo84

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Got no problem with women sports being covered and there should almost certainly be more television and press coverage of some women's sports than there is at present. I just wish the BBC in particular would distinguish between the male and female competitions in their coverage. They are different sports in as much as they exist in different spheres of competition.

Also I don't like women acting as pundits of the men's game of any sport. They've never played the men's game at a high enough level to make them experts. For example look at cricket. England's women's cricket team is one of the best in the world and the women's ashes isn't bad to watch. However I highly doubt any of the women batsmen have faced many deliveries from seamers bowling at >90mph so they're not much better equipped to talk about how to play Jimmy Anderson than someone who plays in their local community team every summer.
 
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AW?

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I think the standard has risen pretty dramatically, but it would considering women are becoming more manly. The goal keepers are the biggest issue with the ladies game. They're hopeless. It'll never reach the levels of Tennis as most women don't like football. The reason they are pushing it? Probably lots of women and pandering men working for the BBC I suppose. Women need special treatment because they are equal now obviously. That's how it works. Female football fans would rather watch the mans game than the women's I'd imagine which says all it all doesn't it? It has got loads better though.
 

VanZan

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The BBC is being a little bit naughty. They're shoving it into the main football news as much as possible. I don't have a problem with women's sports but I don't like being force fed something. For example I have a couple of BBC Football RSS feeds. The bewilderment I suffer every time my feed tells me Notts County have qualified for the Champions League can't be underestimated.

Big it up as much as you like BBC but give me the option to ignore it please. I don't give a shit about it because it's not big time. Like I don't give a shit about League of Ireland crap, Scottish non-Premiership stuff with 245 people watching and everything below the Championship in the UK.
 

Matthew Wyatt

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Yet the sports outlets keep pushing rugby? I'd rather watch octogenarian women's football than that. Some of you, like the OP, have too much time on your hands. Go join a footy team yourself, you useless tubs of lard. Stop waiting for other people to entertain you.
 

Trix

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It's all the Beeb can afford now. Sky and BT have priced them out of the market for the mens game.
 

Bobbins

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For anyone suggesting that women's football is played at any sort of decent standard:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...-Newcastle-Jets-15s-Rio-Olympics-warm-up.html

Important to note as well that this wasn't a decent schoolboys team - not from a European club or South American - this was an A-League under 15's side - the A-League, probably the worst professional football league in the world.

What happened to girl power? Australia's national women's soccer team the Matildas lose 7-0 to an under FIFTEENS boys' side
  • Australian women soccer team Matildas played Newcastle Jets u/15 boys
  • The match played in Newcastle saw the Matildas thrashed 7-0 by the boys
 

Disconosebleed

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If talent is a pre-requisite for appearing on television I don't think women's football is the place to start.

No one is claiming women's football is anything approaching the standard of the men's game, obviously it wouldn't be - they are physically smaller and have access to vastly inferior facilities and training. So I'm not really sure what point your making...that we should be showing Australian under 15s football instead of international women's football?

The only way women's football can improve is if it's given the opportunity to thrive, and if last year's World Cup is anything to go by the British public is ready to get on board with it.
 

Bobbins

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Why would you give me a Doh rating for posting an interesting story about women's football which is in the news?

And yes, people in this thread and elsewhere have been saying that women's football is being played at a good standard - which is what I said, not that people have said it's at the same standard as the men's game - you've just made that bit up.

At no point did I say anything about women's football shouldn't be on tv either - I really don't know what you're so annoyed about with my post, except that it seems you've read a load of stuff I never actually wrote.
 

aliyid

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7-0 to a local u15 side :LOL:

And they're ranked fifth in the world :LOL::LOL:

How long before the equal pay argument gets raised again :bag: :whistle:
 
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