comment by Red Russian (U4715)
posted 18 seconds ago
As to the wider question, like Diafol, I enjoy watching football. I enjoy watching it played at the highest level, and I stand on the touchline, with fingers going white from the cold, watching my kids playing on atrocious pitches. There's definitely something to savour when you're watching football that's faster and more technically accomplished than anything you've seen before, but that's not the only (or even primary) reason we watch football. And as a United supporter, I can attest to the fact that high quality product isn't what I've been generally getting from the hours I put into watching my team over the last nine years.

I haven't watched all the England matches but when I have, I've felt invested in them, enjoyed watching the contrast in tactics, enjoyed moments of skill and well constructed passages of play. And I like the fact that the growth of support for the women's game means that talented girls who make huge sacrifices get opportunities to play the sport professionally. I think it's good that girls can dream about becoming footballers, as probably most of us on this forum dreamed at the age of 7. I'm glad that enough of the country is getting behind the England team that women who are generating those lifelong memories of being in the middle of a summer tournament. Why would anyone feel the need to sneer at that?
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Well said, the game should be celebrated for what it is and the outfield standard keeps improving.

If I am a coach in the Womens game though then I am sorting out the keeping situation as it is abysmal

comment by Red Russian (U4715)
posted 1 minute ago
Since I'm doing all the blue-sky thinking today, instead of making the women's goals smaller, why not make the men's goals bigger?
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Or the football bigger/smaller

comment by Red Russian (U4715)
posted 4 minutes ago
Since I'm doing all the blue-sky thinking today, instead of making the women's goals smaller, why not make the men's goals bigger?
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Goalkeepers 'union' will be calling for a strike

I’m just happy an Australian legend, the awesome Sam Kerr is on the FIFA cover this year 😎😎 🇦🇺

comment by Red Russian (U4715)
posted 9 minutes ago
As to the wider question, like Diafol, I enjoy watching football. I enjoy watching it played at the highest level, and I stand on the touchline, with fingers going white from the cold, watching my kids playing on atrocious pitches. There's definitely something to savour when you're watching football that's faster and more technically accomplished than anything you've seen before, but that's not the only (or even primary) reason we watch football. And as a United supporter, I can attest to the fact that high quality product isn't what I've been generally getting from the hours I put into watching my team over the last nine years.

I haven't watched all the England matches but when I have, I've felt invested in them, enjoyed watching the contrast in tactics, enjoyed moments of skill and well constructed passages of play. And I like the fact that the growth of support for the women's game means that talented girls who make huge sacrifices get opportunities to play the sport professionally. I think it's good that girls can dream about becoming footballers, as probably most of us on this forum dreamed at the age of 7. I'm glad that enough of the country is getting behind the England team that women who are generating those lifelong memories of being in the middle of a summer tournament. Why would anyone feel the need to sneer at that?
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To be fair I was invested in the game last night myself. I wanted England to lose...

England have a great opportunity to do something the men can’t and actually win a tourney.

comment by Robb ☀️ ‘It was hot in 1976!’ ☀️ (U22716)
posted 2 minutes ago
I’m just happy an Australian legend, the awesome Sam Kerr is on the FIFA cover this year 😎😎 🇦🇺
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I always liked her brother Wayne

Its come on leaps and bounds, even compared to a few years ago.

The problem for me still being is goalkeeping - they just seem so small and cant get to anything put too high or in the corners.

Now the game has recognition and its more accessible hopefully they can attract taller women.

you go back 10 years and the idea of womens football was a bit of a joke

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Just go back a week to the Norway game

comment by Nickasaurus (U9257)
posted 35 seconds ago
you go back 10 years and the idea of womens football was a bit of a joke

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Just go back a week to the Norway game
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To be fair didn't your team beat another team 8-0 on the final day of the season when you needed a win to win the PL?

comment by Diafol Coch 77 (U2462)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by Nickasaurus (U9257)
posted 35 seconds ago
you go back 10 years and the idea of womens football was a bit of a joke

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Just go back a week to the Norway game
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To be fair didn't your team beat another team 8-0 on the final day of the season when you needed a win to win the PL?
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Don’t know mate. Don’t watch women’s football
I remember it being a tight game no? Maybe im making it up

Was 4-2 chelsea v Man Utd

I've always thought that each team should be allowed a man in goal as its definitely the position where the weaker female frame gets badly exposed.

That said if a bloke comes hurtling off his line to punch away a cross and takes out a few women at the same time they aint getting up from that in a hurry.

I'm not a fan of women who speak in a laddish way using expressions like "too be fair" and "we're all gutted" so it's not for me.

As long the mens game has teams like San Marino, Gibraltar and Everton I don’t think we can ever laugh about womens football.

I'm not a fan of women who speak in a laddish way using expressions like "too be fair" and "we're all gutted" so it's not for me.

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At the end of the day, I bet they're all gutted about that to be fair.

comment by Nickasaurus (U9257)
posted 5 minutes ago
comment by Diafol Coch 77 (U2462)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by Nickasaurus (U9257)
posted 35 seconds ago
you go back 10 years and the idea of womens football was a bit of a joke

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Just go back a week to the Norway game
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To be fair didn't your team beat another team 8-0 on the final day of the season when you needed a win to win the PL?
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Don’t know mate. Don’t watch women’s football
I remember it being a tight game no? Maybe im making it up
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I meant an 8-0 win v Wigan in 2010!

comment by Robb ☀️ ‘It was hot in 1976!’ ☀️ (U22716)
posted 4 seconds ago
As long the mens game has teams like San Marino, Gibraltar and Everton I don’t think we can ever laugh about womens football.
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Why? I laugh at San Marino tbh. San Marino would probably smash the women’s team too

comment by Devonshirespur (U6316)
posted 1 hour, 31 minutes ago
comment by LordDowlias (U3236)
posted 3 minutes ago
I'm sorry, but I tried watching it last night, just to jump onto the bandwagon, but FFS it made my eyes bleed.

The amount of women running into each other, heading the ball in any direction their hair would allow them, general falling over out of clumsiness, I had to stop.

But if you take it for what it is, I suppose you can get behind it, and congratulations to the Lionesses, you did it.

On another note, how is it acceptable to call the Womens England team Lionesses, but you can no longer call a woman a manageress or waitresses ect anymore ?
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because Lions are not pc and are happy to have clearly defined genders and be referred to in this way
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Have you noticed those tailored shorts that they wear?

comment by The Lambeau Leap (U21050)
posted 1 hour, 4 minutes ago
To be fair, that second England goal was straight down the middle. Maybe it’s time to acknowledge that women, generally, are shorter and less athletic than men. It’s not an insult to implement appropriately sized goals. It would probably benefit the game.
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The rest of the world apart from you realised this about men and woman hundreds of centuries ago

And talking about the goals, when the game first began the average male was smaller than certainly a proportion of todays females.

So perhaps the answer is to make the goal in mens football bigger?

Food for though chaps?

comment by Robb ☀️ ‘It was hot in 1976!’ ☀️ (U22716)
posted 5 minutes ago
As long the mens game has teams like San Marino, Gibraltar and Everton I don’t think we can ever laugh about womens football.
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It's not their fault because a lot of country's have yet to invest significant cash into the women's game, but I'm sure I read last week that England are averaging something like 5.4 goals a game under their new manager

Not using that to laugh but shows there's still quite a way to go.

comment by Nickasaurus (U9257)
posted 9 minutes ago
comment by Robb ☀️ ‘It was hot in 1976!’ ☀️ (U22716)
posted 4 seconds ago
As long the mens game has teams like San Marino, Gibraltar and Everton I don’t think we can ever laugh about womens football.
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Why? I laugh at San Marino tbh. San Marino would probably smash the women’s team too
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I reckon Everton could hold them to a draw

comment by Red Forest Bear [Bear Knows] (U6288)
posted 3 minutes ago
And talking about the goals, when the game first began the average male was smaller than certainly a proportion of todays females.

So perhaps the answer is to make the goal in mens football bigger?

Food for though chaps?
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Mens keepers should be made to wear novelty foam hands instead of gloves - would love to see it

https://twitter.com/AlexHartley93/status/1549863391715643393?t=Kss0u1DgdaJXN64XEDSilQ&s=19

😂😂😂😂😂🤡

Not read the replied but the "wonder strike" winner... would have been tipped over in a Sunday league gameI reckon.

Technically it has come on leaps and bounds though.