Women's Football, One of Our Own and SPOTY

[keldsyke]

It's all about expectations I guess. Go to a mens reserve game and you expect reserve standard football. Go to watch your kids and you expect to see kids standard. Watch women play and you get women playing, simple really. All standards should be appreciated with that in mind. I watched the Euros and the WC and enjoyed both competitions because I expected to see slow play, poor play (by mens standard) and players without a full bag of tricks. I wouldn't go and watch a WSL match because it holds no interest for me (because of poor play etc not because it is women (I suppose one goes with the other))

Exactly and that is the problem it's being marketed (forced) as the best of the best, take tennis, women's top tennis is just as comparable to mens apart from the physical differences skill wise imo they are equal and both as enjoyable as each other.

[Notts78]

Exactly and that is the problem it's being marketed (forced) as the best of the best, take tennis, women's top tennis is just as comparable to mens apart from the physical differences skill wise imo they are equal and both as enjoyable as each other.

I disagree about Tennis. The women’s game, like footy, is completely different. The men’s game is played at speed with power, skill and agility. The women’s game is slower, admittedly they have longer rallies, but these are often static ‘to me, to you’, until you be makes a mistake.
The biggest issue that everyone needs to get away from is comparing men and women in sport. It is and will always be completely different and there is hardly a sport where both can co-exist as equals.
There was an all male team that recently won a state championship playing netball. Went down well and the boys took zero stick whatsoever - obviously they got a **** load and had it been the other way round, up roar amongst the left would have ensued.