Is anyone else getting interested

Saw my first womens football game recently at the FA Cup Final at Wembley United v Chelsea. It wasnt full but a good attendance. I got my ticket free, from the NHS via the Mrs. They offerred free tickets to all NHS workers for the Cup Final yet there were still empty seats around me. The NHS employs 2million people so that was a bit of a gamble by the FA to do that! Makes me wonder how many people actually paid to attend that game. Still a good day out. (We got battered by Chelsea). Plenty of raucous groups of Manc girls supporting United in the Box Park getting Largered up (or should I say Proseccoed up) and singing Nick Nack Paddy Wack and other indecent United songs to the horror of the nice Chelsea family fans. Excellent.

*Lagered up

It is more genuine to what sport is about than top level men's football is now. But you can easily find that outside the PL or CL in the men's game as well.

Not meaning to sound sexist but I’ve no interest. Quality and speed is far lower in the women’s game.

I've enjoyed watching the England games. It comes without a lot of the baggage that the top level men's game now has attached to it, I think. As someone else said, the quality will improve with backing and support that has been sorely lacking for decades. I'm sure if the ban hadn't happened then the quality of the football would be further along now.

I'd go and watch some Leeds Women games if they played in Leeds.

Women's tennis is a great watch, and a very clear indicator of how it being a different kind and style of game does not mean it is a detrimentally worse game.

comment by Lubo - Struijk of Genius (U14008)
posted 6 minutes ago
I've enjoyed watching the England games. It comes without a lot of the baggage that the top level men's game now has attached to it, I think. As someone else said, the quality will improve with backing and support that has been sorely lacking for decades. I'm sure if the ban hadn't happened then the quality of the football would be further along now.

I'd go and watch some Leeds Women games if they played in Leeds.

Women's tennis is a great watch, and a very clear indicator of how it being a different kind and style of game does not mean it is a detrimentally worse game.
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The quality won't improve much. But that's not really the point. The quality in the PL was far poorer 15-20 years ago but was more appealing to most. People often lose sight of why they like sport in the first place. Probably down to media manipulation.

I do admire how the women’s game has grown and there’s a lot to like about the way the games played. Perhaps it depends a little on your age. I’ve found as I’ve grown older I’m not quite as fervent about football so now the women’s game has come to the fore there’s just not enough room to give it any time. Probably something for the new generation of fans.

Not really, I was in a pub the other day and the England Sweden game was on, decided to watch the penalty shootout. Couldn’t believe how bad the standard of penalties were, it was comical, everyone in the pub were laughing.


I don’t watch the Championship, or foreign leagues like La Liga or the Bundesliga and I don’t watch youth games. I barely have time to watch the PL and CL, when the hell am I going to have time to watch women’s football?

comment by manutd1982 (U6633)
posted 23 minutes ago
Not really, I was in a pub the other day and the England Sweden game was on, decided to watch the penalty shootout. Couldn’t believe how bad the standard of penalties were, it was comical, everyone in the pub were laughing.


I don’t watch the Championship, or foreign leagues like La Liga or the Bundesliga and I don’t watch youth games. I barely have time to watch the PL and CL, when the hell am I going to have time to watch women’s football?
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It was the worst penalty shoot out I’ve ever seen. They just looked completely awful with a couple of exceptions. I did like Chloe Kelly’s penalty - great technique and one of the few to hit the ball hard.

I have watched the tournaments for a while now, mainly as they are on during the off season and football is football.

Would i tune into any non england, non tournament matches? Unlikely.