geoff clipp
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Exactly. They're just sexist pricks, basically. The sort of people who object to women doing anything high profile and getting credit for doing so. The other one is "Why are the BBC covering this when they're not covering lower league men's football that gets far more spectators?" That was the gist of some of the comments on an article about us winning the league ffs. Apparently even us winning the league isn't worth its own article. But curiously, at exactly the same time, there was an article given equal billing on the sports page about a normal rugby league game that got a lower crowd. Interesting that there weren't loads of comments from angry, insecure men on that article about how the BBC shouldn't be covering that event. They're even spreading their shit over the men's football articles now because they've stopped accepting comments on women's football articles.
But yeah, the level isn't as high. Of course it isn't. The women's game for the most part isn't even professional yet. I believe Liverpool are the only fully professional team (maybe us now too?) and all of the others have a mix of amateurs and professionals. But it has to start somewhere and it's only going to get bigger. I hope so, because my cousin's kid is currently playing for Blackburn's youth team and it'd be great if she could turn professional one day. When all of the women playing in the WSL are able to devote their life to football in the same way that males players can, the standards and fitness levels will massively improve.
I get the point about the "Arsenal beat Chelsea" headlines sometimes distracting your attention, but the same happens with "England" when there's a hockey game on or something and no-one complains about that. You take one look at the picture, see that they're women and if you're not interested, you don't click on it.
Couldn't agree more. Despite my misleading name on here I'm a woman in her early thirties and the only sport I wanted to really play as a kid was football. I wasn't really able to get the opportunity to play it regularly as our school wouldn't let us and then as you enter your awkward early teens you'd get the piss taken out of you or called a lesbian as though that's some kind of insult or whatever. Seeing the level our current crop have reached with relatively little encouragement and no WSL to aim for when they were kids is so impressive to me and when you get no marks on here slagging them off it really grinds my gears. Lucy Bronze is a brilliant player and her along with the other women at the top of the game deserve a bit of respect. I'm chuffed to bits that your cousin's kid has the chance to follow her dream in a more inclusive era and Im glad she has the likes of Bronze, Haughton etc to look up to alongside the Disney princesses girls of the past have been force-fed!