Women's football

[KCNotts]

Is anyone else becoming frustrated with the BBC seemingly being intent on ramming this down our throats whether we like it or not?

1. The amount of coverage it gets does not reflect the amount of interest in the sport.
2. Women's football is absolutely awful.

There are are lots of sports in Britain that would love more coverage...but get nothing. But this gets more than its fair share purely because the players are female.

Surely that is positive discrimination?

[DelroyFacey22]

How are the BBC ramming it down our throats? They showed 2 out of the 3 games our international side played in this tournament on BBC FOUR... F*cking Four! I didn't even know they had more than 3 channels and I thought they took BBC3 online only as well! I don't see it being shoved down our throats at all so I do think it's probably matched with the amount of interest in the sport.

The more annoying thing at the moment imo is Alex Scott being on as many games as physically possible as a pundit now seemingly just so they can meet a quota whereas usually it's an ex player with links to one or both of the teams playing. You never ever see a male pundit on womens football coverage, it should work both ways imo, I'm not against having a female presenter, they can present just as well as males can do but I want to hear about mens football from from experts or people experienced on/with mens football.

[cher1]

Is anyone else becoming frustrated with the BBC seemingly being intent on ramming this down our throats whether we like it or not?

1. The amount of coverage it gets does not reflect the amount of interest in the sport.
2. Women's football is absolutely awful.

There are are lots of sports in Britain that would love more coverage...but get nothing. But this gets more than its fair share purely because the players are female.

Surely that is positive discrimination?

What figures do you base 1. on? What would you consider a fare share of coverage to be? And as for 2. I'd be interested to see what are you judging it against? Isn't it a bit like saying Shelly-Ann Fraser is absolutely awful?

Bearing in mind the amount of time morbidly obese men playing a pub game purporting to be sport, are on TV, I dont think you have a leg to stand on personally...

[sidders]

Is anyone else becoming frustrated with the BBC seemingly being intent on ramming this down our throats whether we like it or not?

1. The amount of coverage it gets does not reflect the amount of interest in the sport.
2. Women's football is absolutely awful.

There are are lots of sports in Britain that would love more coverage...but get nothing. But this gets more than its fair share purely because the players are female.

Surely that is positive discrimination?

Can I point out to you that there are 32.58 million men in the UK and 33.46 million women. Now that's 51-49% wise and it's a fair bet that there are as many footie fans within their ranks as there are among the men.
So don't they deserve more coverage on that basis alone?
I would like to bet that last night's England team would be a match for the current dross that wears black and white stripes at Meadow Lane.
Do try my kids' book 'Red Card' which deals with poor male attitudes towards sporting women. It's been translated into Swedish and Arabic too. It's for 9 to 12 year olds but it might help you reconstruct your attitude.

[forwardmagpie]

Can I point out to you that there are 32.58 million men in the UK and 33.46 million women. Now that's 51-49% wise and it's a fair bet that there are as many footie fans within their ranks as there are among the men.
So don't they deserve more coverage on that basis alone?
I would like to bet that last night's England team would be a match for the current dross that wears black and white stripes at Meadow Lane.
Do try my kids' book 'Red Card' which deals with poor male attitudes towards sporting women. It's been translated into Swedish and Arabic too. It's for 9 to 12 year olds but it might help you reconstruct your attitude.

Did you watch it Sid, can you give me a report on the game.

[sidders]

Did you watch it Sid, can you give me a report on the game.

Those days are done. Besides, I didn't make any notes!

[legs77]

Can I point out to you that there are 32.58 million men in the UK and 33.46 million women. Now that's 51-49% wise and it's a fair bet that there are as many footie fans within their ranks as there are among the men.
So don't they deserve more coverage on that basis alone?
I would like to bet that last night's England team would be a match for the current dross that wears black and white stripes at Meadow Lane.
Do try my kids' book 'Red Card' which deals with poor male attitudes towards sporting women. It's been translated into Swedish and Arabic too. It's for 9 to 12 year olds but it might help you reconstruct your attitude.

I’m not fussed either way if they are on tv or not it doesn’t bother me but I’d say this no way is the percentage of people in this country who like football equal amongst men and women.

That’s like saying more men are interested in the bake off !

As bad as Notts are they would destroy any woman’s football team without doubt.

[DelroyFacey22]

Can I point out to you that there are 32.58 million men in the UK and 33.46 million women. Now that's 51-49% wise and it's a fair bet that there are as many footie fans within their ranks as there are among the men.

Absolutely no chance, out of the % of women that like mens football, which is already less, there will be even less of those women that like womens football and then a small niche of women that specifically only like womens football and don't watch mens. The main audience for womens football is kids and the parents of kids that play it.

I would like to bet that last night's England team would be a match for the current dross that wears black and white stripes at Meadow Lane.

Again, no chance. There are pub teams and U15 teams up and down the country that would beat them and have beaten them and their peers. It even annoys the women when people say stupid things like that, they know they're not as physically strong or quick and it's boring when you compare the two. Luckily they don't compete against men so it has no relevance on how entertaining it is or how many people watch it.

As you can see in my first post, I am supportive of it and usually watch it when it's on, but let's not just make random stuff up.

[Glad2BeAPie]

They're not forcing you to watch it, there's loads of other channels to selcet

[DomdomPie]

Women's football used to be hugely popular in this country - crowds up to 50k for some games leading up to the 1920s.

It's only because the FA banned it for 50 years that it became seen as some kind of weird offshoot of men's football. They've been playing catch up ever since so it's good that it's finally getting coverage. Maybe the younger generation who are seeing it on TV now won't grow up with such negative views of it.