steveiron64 9:40 Wed Mar 8
Women's Football - Crowds
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39210802
Women's game could have had crowds on a par with the men's game ....?
I disagree. Just don't think the girl's game will be / would ever have been as good. You?
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Mr. Burns
9:44 Wed Mar 8
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It's shit and no one is interested no matter how much they push it.
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Leonard Hatred
9:45 Wed Mar 8
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BBC PC nonsense.
It doesn't matter how much they promote it, splitarse football will never be popular because it isn't very good and nobody's interested in it.
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ragingbull
9:45 Wed Mar 8
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They would get bigger crowds if they played in the summer where the men's football is resting.
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kylay
9:52 Wed Mar 8
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If it ever were as good, they wouldn't need Women's football. they would play in the premier league. oddly, women never seem to complain about not getting a tryout
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MTC
10:32 Wed Mar 8
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You probably wouldn't even put womens football on a par with men's non league.Does piss you off the way they keep pushing it just for the sake of showing a bit of political correctness.You'll probably get sky in the next couple of years,showing the womens premier league and claiming lots are watching it,even if the viewing figures are really poor.Think they would even take a financial hit if it meant carrying on showing it.
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Crassus
12:06 Thu Mar 9
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Football is historically a game of the working man, watched by the working man
It has fuck all to do with birds, its strength was the escape from the buggers for a couple of hours
The fact that a few fatty types and screaming lessers feel the need to abandon hockey and netball to squeal about a field chasing a ball is entirely their prerogative but it has sweet fuck all to do with the game proper and never will
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gregan
12:38 Thu Mar 9
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The number of girls playing is going up every year. The technical level is improving every year. I predict a gradual increase in attendances, but nowhere near top level men's figures. Need a player like Messi who can dribble past everyone and score.
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joe royal
1:05 Thu Mar 9
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Greegan
Can you explain technical level please?
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stoneman
1:06 Thu Mar 9
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Having refereed women's premier league matches I can confirm 2 things -
1) the level is no higher than local parks football
2) even with free tickets the crowd was about 50
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martyboy
7:47 Thu Mar 9
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I think it would get a bit more popular if the women played in bikinis.
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Sven Roeder
8:23 Thu Mar 9
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I would curious to see the gate takings for major women's matches.
The impression is no one pays their own money to watch. It's all free tickets and cheap deals.
Like Spurs at Wembley.
Good luck to them but it's incomparable to men's football
Playing in the summer is a good idea. They have started up a women's version of AFL in Australia and are playing as a 2 month season before the men start in March.
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icwhs
8:49 Thu Mar 9
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Women in any sport is much worse than the men's version.
Will never work what ever they throw at it.
I blame the sod who let them vote in the first place.
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Sydney_Iron
10:11 Thu Mar 9
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They televise it here, all part of making sport equel and giving the girls media exposure to grow the game, its pretty dog shit and the crowds, well they get a few family and friends along but its basically played in empty stadiums, the commentators try and make it sound exciting but it isnt.
The woman's national team have done quite well at tournaments though, so much so, that some Woman's groups, players and feminists have been demanding equal pay with the mens national side, think the TV thing was all about giving them something to shut them up, if they got the crowds they would think about paying them more, think they knew they wouldn't and they haven't!
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goose
10:25 Thu Mar 9
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BBC get right on my nerves constantly pushing womens football - they put it above most other mainstream sports on their news feed.
no-one gives a fuck. their 'cup final' is artificially packed out by free tickets for school kids.
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wansteadman
10:29 Thu Mar 9
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90% of the people running netball are women. I assume we will have men on the TV all day moaning that they aren't represented
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Sydney_Iron
10:37 Thu Mar 9
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Surprised they haven't started demanding the all team sports consist of equal numbers of men and woman, along with equal pay of course........
With 11 players perhaps football would allow the transgenders could get a shout? 5 men, 5 woman and a freak, Oops i mean a person with an identity or gender expression that differs from their assigned sex.
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Eddie B
10:38 Thu Mar 9
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Women goalkeepers are just great. It's like Stephen Hawking trying to keep goal.
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horrible
11:00 Thu Mar 9
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kylay wrote...
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If it ever were as good, they wouldn't need Women's football. they would play in the premier league
Raheem Sterling ?
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gregan
5:50 Thu Mar 9
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Joe Royal, more girls are playing from 6 or 7. My daughter started at 4. Girls teams are forming at younger age groups and more girls are playing in boys teams. Girls teams are now starting to play in boys leagues and do well upto U14 where physicality comes into it. 5 years ago there were less teams and no girls teams playing in boys leagues. 15 years ago when a lot of the current England team started out there was far less girls playing and girls teams.
Technical level. The skill level of the younger players has gone up in the last 5 years. It's very noticeable. The U10 girls team I manage is far more skillful than the U10 girls from 4 years ago. The Arsenal Girls trials are full of skillers. It's great to see and for me bored well for the future.
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