The male commentators and pundits on the women's world cup...

[Scum-Triumphant]

Yes but those worthy of the tag are too stupid to know what it means.

Couldn’t have said it better myself. Thou doth protest too much.

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

Couldn’t have said it better myself. Thou doth protest too much.

Would have been even better if it was a comment on the correct thread

[frogmiller]

It's just one of those things that'll never be as good as mens football but because it's football you want it to be!

Will the new sponsorship deal improve the payers and the football itself? I think it will just like it did when the Sky deal money started filtering through. It will improve but it'll take a bloody long time.

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

It's just one of those things that'll never be as good as mens football but because it's football you want it to be!

Will the new sponsorship deal improve the payers and the football itself? I think it will just like it did when the Sky deal money started filtering through. It will improve but it'll take a bloody long time.

The hype it’s getting isn’t matching the goods produced.

Like going to a top restaurant, picking a tasty sounding dish from the menu and being served cold beans on toast

It might improve but let it have prime time tv coverage when it has, not now

[avondalemiller]

..........if you think its that bad, wait, and in 10 years you'll be commenting on the Transgender World Cup....

[flourbasher]

Women's tennis, hockey, netball all good standards and worthy of praise.

Women's football ain't got it although I'd make and exception and say the Norwegian,s are worth some viewing time

[Hazza Has A Gazza]

It's hardly a new thing. I remember watching Doncaster Belles live on chanel 4 about 30 years ago! They used to be on quite often too, Sunday 12 o clock! That was when almost all football was played on a Saturday. I watched it cos it was there.
I also went to a womens international game at Millmoor around 1991, England v Italy.
Its getting more exposure now and certainly more commercial funding.

[CAMiller]

It's hardly a new thing. I remember watching Doncaster Belles live on chanel 4 about 30 years ago! They used to be on quite often too, Sunday 12 o clock! That was when almost all football was played on a Saturday. I watched it cos it was there.
I also went to a womens international game at Millmoor around 1991, England v Italy.
Its getting more exposure now and certainly more commercial funding.

In the 70s the England women's captain was from Rawmarsh, long before the game had the exposure it has today. Growing up with her, age for age she wasn't as good as the best male players who went on to sign professional contracts but she was certainly as good as the better than average boys. I suppose if we were able to see what PNE were like when they won the first league title 130 years ago it would be laughable compared to today's standard. Once the women's game has had the same number of years of development as the men's game I'm sure it will be a more polished offering. For what it's worth, despite the improvement in fitness, technique, facilities, equipment etc. I'm not sure the men's game is a better form of entertainment than it was 40 years ago when it had more of the rough edges that the women's game shows today.

[frogmiller]

The hype it’s getting isn’t matching the goods produced.

Like going to a top restaurant, picking a tasty sounding dish from the menu and being served cold beans on toast

It might improve but let it have prime time tv coverage when it has, not now

Apparently it got 6,000,000 viewers. That's more than Songs of Praise.

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

Apparently it got 6,000,000 viewers. That's more than Songs of Praise.

About the same of antiques roadshow.

I wonder how many the 13-0 USA match got?

Real quality on show there, a Dog and Duck scoreline when half of the Dog and Duck team are hungover.