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Post by Big Blue on Jul 27, 2022 21:19:35 GMT
Well aside from pointing out that some of these women footballers look like Edwardian-era factory workers, it’s interesting to see the game played with more sporting intent than the men’s game. No blatant diving, no handbags over non-existent fouls on teammates (in fact I don’t reckon any of them have handbags) and some decent football played to boot. I can’t admit I’m as excited as I am about the men’s game, but then I love MotoGP but have never watched World Superbikes so it’s not just fickleness for the sexes playing.
All that said, I suppose somewhere in London my sister (if she still lives - no one seen her since about ‘93) watches on with a degree of irritation. She was an excellent footballer at middle school in the early-mid ‘70s to the extent the Headmaster noted in her school report that she possessed the finest left foot in the school and my mother was furious (as she wanted her daughter to be a girl and her son (me) to be a boy yet I reckon in the ‘80s I wore more make up). So much to my sister’s horror she was sent to a girl’s school where football was clearly not on the agenda in what would have been 1975 by my reckoning. Sis still ended up school captain but no football for the West Ham loving posh girl from Surrey.
To this end, come on England.
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Post by ChrisM on Jul 27, 2022 21:48:42 GMT
I have little interest in football, but it would be great to see the Lionesses win the competition. I just find it absolutely amazing that the FA got away with such blatant discrimination against womens' football for so many years
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Post by Tim on Jul 28, 2022 8:07:48 GMT
I used to watch a lot of football but gradually got more and more fed up with the blatant diving, handbags over non-existent fouls, crowding round the referee (I'm looking at you Roy Keane and your Man U teammates), etc and eventually gave up.
I keep track of results for my favourite teams (I'm not going to list them out of embarassment) but I don't think I've watched a game for about 10 years.
Good luck to the England Women (calling them lionnesses seems very forced and contrived) but I can only hope for their and our sakes that they don't win the final because we might then have to suffer another 56 years (and counting) of "1966"......
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Post by Blarno on Jul 28, 2022 8:15:29 GMT
It's been on pretty much every day in my house. Jo is coach for our local girl's under 10's team, which Lottie is a member of, so I'm constantly getting the rundown of everything that has happened in every game. This despite me telling her, every time, that I couldn't give 2 shits. It's just a game and I don't do competitive sports of any kind.
Would it be nice for the Lionesses to win? Of course it would, but it would also trigger mass hysteria and bouts of IT'S COMING HOME!
But, on the flip side, it will piss off the blokey blokes who get triggered by women not making sandwiches or cleaning the house, and that can only be a good thing.
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Post by PG on Aug 2, 2022 9:32:17 GMT
Would it be nice for the Lionesses to win? Of course it would, but it would also trigger mass hysteria and bouts of IT'S COMING HOME! But, on the flip side, it will piss off the blokey blokes who get triggered by women not making sandwiches or cleaning the house, and that can only be a good thing.And now that it has happened - well done to them - probably give all the old farts in the FA heart attacks. |
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Post by Stuntman on Aug 3, 2022 20:31:08 GMT
I enjoyed watching the Lionesses in this tournament and loved their collective team spirit and also their genuine unbridled joy in their celebrations. And the football was pretty good as well. Top stuff - it has given the country a real lift, inspired a lot of young women and I'm very pleased and happy.
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Post by Alex on Aug 3, 2022 20:56:21 GMT
The Lionesses were really good to watch but we went down to The Amex in Brighton to watch Austria vs. Norway and the quality of the football on show was a long way off what I've seen in the men's game at Championship level let alone Premiership which shows that the game needs much more investment to get woman in some other countries to a decent professional standard. Hopefully the popularity of the woman's game would have really benefited from this tournament which will help.
I read somewhere that the average salary of WSL players is about £30k. A bang average men's Prem player gets that in a week.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Aug 4, 2022 8:05:05 GMT
I found the women's football enjoyable to watch and the standard has improved immensely but I'm also conscious that the World Cup winning USA Women's team was beaten 5-2 by FC Dallas' boys U15 team (and their coach had them running laps for conceding two goals).
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Post by Stuntman on Aug 4, 2022 20:41:10 GMT
It's not all that surprising perhaps? When I was a 17-18 year old athlete I was running times faster than the Women's world records at the time in my events. In other words, a post-pubescent young man who is at national/junior international level in a major sporting country like the UK or the US would be at least as good as the world elite adult women in most sports. It's mostly just biology really.
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Post by Alex on Aug 4, 2022 23:08:45 GMT
Biology comes into it but the deficiency was more with how the game was played and the skill demonstrated on the pitch which comes from a lack of investment in coaching compared to the elite mends sides.
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