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Don't let Hayley McQueeen read this.
She'd be firing the sexism card out quicker than Doyle Brunson.
 
So, FIFA16 will have to option to play as one of the women national teams.
Boring.
 
Its gotten better but its still not "enjoyable" to watch. But I dont mind it all.
I also dont mind it being an option on Fifa 16. If you dont want to play it then just dont bother with it.
Some of the comments when Fifa made this public was insane to read tbh.
People saying they wont buy the game anymore etc. Grow up FFS.
 
I've regularly played with/against an ex international lady, she's terrible. Saying that it is norn iron.
 
Hansern said:
Its gotten better but its still not "enjoyable" to watch. But I dont mind it all.
I also dont mind it being an option on Fifa 16. If you dont want to play it then just dont bother with it.
Some of the comments when Fifa made this public was insane to read tbh.
People saying they wont buy the game anymore etc. Grow up FFS.
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Did people really say they wouldn't buy it? That's crazy!
 
Many years ago I went out with a girl who played for England U21's. She was actually pretty good. She could run rings around me (although that means nothing, I was shite at footy).

She was a bluenose though. It was never going to work out.
 
Don't have enough time to watch the Women's World Cup, the WNBA season just started and I've been far too busy watching those games.
 
It's funny when minority sports are taken this seriously. Actually, scrap that. It's not funny. It's absolute horseshit. Imagine if TV companies spent more time on women's sports that are actually good and worth watching...
 
How far down the men's football pyramid would you have to go to find football of an equivalent standard? My guess would be somewhere around County FA level. Who'd watch that on TV? I'm all for women who want to play the game having the opportunity to do so, but the bigging-up of the women's game in the media is political posing, pure and simple.
 
You've got Charlotte Moore in charge of BBC1. She's so obsessed with fulfilling a women's quota that she's shoehorned female footballers on to shows like Football Focus, no matter how uncomfortable they look doing it. And then you've got Kate Shillinglaw in charge of BBC2, who thinks loads of live coverage of the women's game is going to elevate it to high status. Combine that with the fact neither really has any real knowledge of football and you have a recipe for hours and hours of slo-mo hippos.
 
Silver Sean said:
It's funny when minority sports are taken this seriously. Actually, scrap that. It's not funny. It's absolute horseshit. Imagine if TV companies spent more time on women's sports that are actually good and worth watching...
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I've been wondering that. Surely only very few women play football, don't they? Compared to something like hockey or netball, I mean.

The standards in those sports are presumably much higher, yet no-one televises those championships and preaches at us to take an interest.
 
peterhague said:
I've been wondering that. Surely only very few women play football, don't they? Compared to something like hockey or netball, I mean.

The standards in those sports are presumably much higher, yet no-one televises those championships and preaches at us to take an interest.
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Exactly. It's fucking annoying.
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You've got Charlotte Moore in charge of BBC1. She's so obsessed with fulfilling a women's quota that she's shoehorned female footballers on to shows like Football Focus, no matter how uncomfortable they look doing it. And then you've got Kate Shillinglaw in charge of BBC2, who thinks loads of live coverage of the women's game is going to elevate it to high status. Combine that with the fact neither really has any real knowledge of football and you have a recipe for hours and hours of slo-mo hippos.
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peterhague said:
I've been wondering that. Surely only very few women play football, don't they? Compared to something like hockey or netball, I mean.

The standards in those sports are presumably much higher, yet no-one televises those championships and preaches at us to take an interest.
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Exactly. It's nothing to do with the sex of the participants, it's the total lack of quality of the sport itself and the over representation of a minority sport. Might as well televise the Brecon under-11's tiddly winks. The air time this world cup is getting could be put to a lot better use if they wanted to showcase real top level women's sport.
 
I have a mad idea, been thinking about it for 15 seconds, so it's bound to be good.

The team who win the women's league & FA Cup each season get put into the FA Cups draw, maybe the 2nd round draw. At they very least it would be entertaining.
 
Judge Jules said:
How far down the men's football pyramid would you have to go to find football of an equivalent standard? My guess would be somewhere around County FA level. Who'd watch that on TV? I'm all for women who want to play the game having the opportunity to do so, but the bigging-up of the women's game in the media is political posing, pure and simple.
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No matter how much they push it the simple fact that the product is so inferior is ultimately the deciding factor on whether or not people will watch. Here in the U.S. ESPN has the WNBA contract and they show games on TV quite regularly, I have literally never encountered a person in day to day life that watches the WNBA. I'm not sure I can say that about any other professional sport.
 
Bradley: they wouldn't be able to survive the 2nd qualifying round, let alone the 2nd round proper. I'd be all in favour, though, if it forced people to face up to the utter ridiculousness of promoting women's soccer as a top-level media event.

I'm sure Ken would agree BTW.
 
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...Hmmm, the women's game. Well, they shouldn't wear white shorts, for a start, as think of those games when many of them will have their periods. They will have to keep coming off and changing, coming off and changing, coming off and changing - it will be chaos, even though I see great potential with commercial ties to Bodyform. 'Aaaaaggh,, Bodyfo-orm...' I love that song. Then there's their change in mood. We really cannot have that. A referee sending someone off for looking at them in a strange way? No, no, no. Also, when substitutes wait to come on, the third official will have to check their nails as well as their studs. This could take forever. And then there's the - where are you all going???
 
Judge Jules said:
Bradley: they wouldn't be able to survive the 2nd qualifying round, let alone the 2nd round proper. I'd be all in favour, though, if it forced people to face up to the utter ridiculousness of promoting women's soccer as a top-level media event.

I'm sure Ken would agree BTW.
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We will never find out, I reckon there would be cupsets*!

*Insert bra joke*
 
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