Quote Originally Posted by pass_and_move View Post
There's the argument that women's football doesn't raise nowhere near the amount of television money and sponsorship revenue that mens football does. Hence the mens larger salaries. Until it does, there's no sound footing to suggest that this is anything to do with equal rights and is simply down to economics within the women's game imo.
Your quite right Pass that the football economics don't favour the women's game and it's a solid point .

Where that point would be dismissed as irrelevant in a Human Rights court in my opinion is the fact that , let's use Chelsea as an example , Chelsea are a professional football club that employs male and female footballers under one umbrella , both genders are employed to do the same job .

Let me give you another example where men and women sports people competing in separate events but do the same job get the same pay , Wimbledon .

The ladies economic argument doesn't stack up at Wimbledon , Flushing Meadow , Melbourne or Roland Garos , the men's singles final is watched globally by more people than the Ladies Final but the economics don't count for anything because both genders are playing a Grand Slam event at the same time .

Both Chelsea football's clubs play professional football over a weekend , every single weekend during the football season a Wimbledon type event is created by professional footballers getting paid by Chelsea Football Club .

Now if the ladies weren't part of Chelsea and were called Chelsea Belles and a separate entity altogether then economics would determine that Chelsea Belles would do well to even pay their players expenses never mind anything else .

Once you bring the ladies in and pay them to play professional football same as the men then you are absolutely wide open in my opinion .

Start flashing Euro winners medals , a world cup silver medal , one hundred caps and 30 WSL goals every season and you go from professional footballer to elite professional footballer just like Lampard but minus the England medals .

It's the Serena Williams and Novak Djokovic at Wimbledon example .

Billie Jean King wasn't sat in the stands on Sunday morning in Sydney for nothing in my opinion , she's getting sounded out as a consultant .

Billie Jean was winning these battles in the 1970's when the world was a totally different place .

The sight of that women should send shudders down the spines of the hierarchy at Stamford Bridge .

Like it or not Millie Bright as England captain will be getting £50k a week before too long .

Not because I think she warrants it but because today's society and culture says she does .