Dubai Blue
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To be honest, I heard that conversation on the podcast and thought they'd lost their collective minds. It was a prime example of how the need to appear "right on" and super liberal in public these days has clouded all semblance of common sense.
The truth is that men's football and women's football are essentially two completely different sports, played at incomparable levels tactically, financially and professionally. Not to mention the fact that men and women themselves are motivated by completely different things.
In that context, Emma Hayes has zero credentials relevant to managing the men's team at Chelsea. That's not to say that a woman could never coach or manage a men's Premier League team; of course they could. But it won't come from switching directly from the women's game, it will come from them establishing themselves in the men's game and building up the relevant experience to coach a team of multi-millionaire men.
BTW, to put that into context, I thought the appointment of Phil Neville as manager of the England ladies' team was ridiculous for the very same reasons.
The truth is that men's football and women's football are essentially two completely different sports, played at incomparable levels tactically, financially and professionally. Not to mention the fact that men and women themselves are motivated by completely different things.
In that context, Emma Hayes has zero credentials relevant to managing the men's team at Chelsea. That's not to say that a woman could never coach or manage a men's Premier League team; of course they could. But it won't come from switching directly from the women's game, it will come from them establishing themselves in the men's game and building up the relevant experience to coach a team of multi-millionaire men.
BTW, to put that into context, I thought the appointment of Phil Neville as manager of the England ladies' team was ridiculous for the very same reasons.