I don't know if we already have a thread for this. Couldn't find one. Is every goal a result of pisspoor goalkeeping or a massive fook up? FA Cup Final today. Man City winning 1-0. I flick it on after putting the kids to bed. Find a video online of the goal. Oh look, another stupid goal involving a goalkeeper who can't keep goal. Promptly switch off. I swear every goal I ever see is a horrendous og or a goalkeeper diving over the ball. The way the BBC push it as elite sport which is an equal to the top of the men's game is silly.
The standard at the top level is appalling compared to the mens top level. You need to find the right comparison which is somewhere not far above Sunday League. Once you stop trying to compare it to Mens football at the top level then you can enjoy it a bit more. It's a completely different sport when played by the ladies, but it can still be very entertaining.
Maybe but does it merit the media coverage it receives? Higher quality entertainment available in a thousand parks on a Sunday morning in the lads leagues. Women’s cricket was, for me, a better spectacle when it had its character. Now it’s muscling up, it’s men’s cricket lite.
For the BBC, women’s football is super cheap football which ticks the diversity agenda box. It’s intrinsic value for viewers is a separate matter.
Indeed. Should be viewed as a different sport. I prefer watching women’s tennis to men’s for example. That said the way BBC try to promote women’s football on an equal footing is laughable. But it’s the BBC so what can we expect?
I remember watching the women's equivalent to Match of the Day last season and it was an awful standard. Errors all over the pitch.
Don't get me started......too late Womens soccer is shockingly poor but religiously pushed by the BBC because; 1/ It's dirt cheap so they can afford to broadcast it 2/ Political correctness & equality - lots of mention of mens football so womens' need to be shown and discussed to make it "fair" 3/ Get more people interested in and playing sport No-one is interested. Just look at the empty stadiums even after the give away tickets. My wife loves football but couldn't name a female player. It's bloody irritating clicking an article on the BBC football page with a title like "Man City sign Arsenal striker" and then finding it relates to the women's game. It should be hidden away on a completely separate sports page but I guess that wouldn't be giving it equal footing. It's also irritating listening to Phil Neville talking as though what he does for a living matters in any shape or form. They'll be wanting the same pay as the mens' game next... "the Lionesses"....pah !
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/48535933 Call me a chauvanistic pig but what the **** is she smoking?
So the difference in pay rates between mens' and womens' football is down to inequality ? Dead right it is. Inequality between the mens' game which is the most watched sport in the world and the womens' game which is so embarrassingly poor the grounds are empty and even 95% of British feminists couldn't name an England player if their/they're/there life depended on it.
I do suspect if England weren't deemed to have a chance we wouldn't hear quite as much about this tournament ..
That and the fact that it is being broadcast, and therefore pushed, by the BBC as it ticks the box of being cheap and non-discriminatory.
Isn't there a similar thing in tennis where women want the same pay as men in slam events yet only play best of 3 sets rather than 5. I'm all for equality in jobs where it makes no difference what gender you are but you can't ask for the same money if you are not going provide the same level of entertainment as others. Football and cricket in the ladies game is just not at the standard required to warrant equal pay.
Let us remember this is the same Hope Solo who battered her own family and got off without being prosecuted, without losing her place in the national team and without losing any sponsorships despite her involvement in confirmed domestic violence. She didn't seem bothered about the lack of equality then, because if it had been one of the men's team they'd have been prosecuted, removed from the squad and lost all sponsorship deals. Anyone who can't understand that the women's game generates far less money and thus has lower prize funds needs their head examined.
The locals seem to have come out in force - probably helps France are the favourites and a decent side by all accounts. Quite how fair the quality goes I am not sure of really. England will probably lose in some glorious heart-breaking manner.
I've been mighty impressed by women's football so far. Well, not so much the football itself, more the standard of football cliche and motivational football sayings the female pundits come out with at every opportunity. Recent examples; "Eleven players, one heart" "Teamwork, makes the dream work" ...and my personal favourite, "Intensity is not a perfume" It's taken us men over 140 years to reach that standard!
Have to admit, I really don't like the new handball rule. England awarded and scored a penalty for a very harsh handball. Having said that, it's and end to end game in the same mould as an under 12 game.
The lower intensity of the women's game has enabled top female players to forge a lucrative sideline in doubles matches. You don't see Nadal or Federer playing in Slam Doubles games, because you can't play 5 set matches and then go and play doubles. You can't have it both ways.
Bit like a Men's game maybe? Plucky Scots just losing to an England side who were the better side but did their best to mess up.