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PompeyLapras said:
when you see your successful club torn to pieces
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Sounds familiar...

As well as realising that any football below the WSL does not even exist in the eyes of the media, who use misleading terms like women's football, while only acknowledging women's football in the WSL,
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Still sounds familiar...

making the term women's football and the WSL being seen as synonymous and only pay attention to the FA Cup when the WSL teams enter. And at the same time, watching as the WSL morphs into a pale imitation of the men's game, complete with all it's problems such as one or two clubs massively outspending everyone else, a league dominated by a small elite few, an ever increasing influx of foreign players, elitist media coverage and so on.
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Again, all sounds familiar from just a few years ago from when we were in league 1 (or even now in that we regularly get torn to pieces), except that this time there's not even the football league show. But if I wanted glory and media attention I wouldn't be supporting Saints!
 
KillerCephalopod said:
Sounds familiar...


Still sounds familiar...


Again, all sounds familiar from just a few years ago from when we were in league 1 (or even now in that we regularly get torn to pieces), except that this time there's not even the football league show. But if I wanted glory and media attention I wouldn't be supporting Saints!
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At least when the likes of Lallana and co left the club, you got lots of money from them which you could reinvest. I wouldn't mind so much the whole players leaving to greener climbs if clubs got anything in return.

Back in 2013, clubs revolted against the FA because of them being cast off as worthless.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/10487233/FA-faces-worthless-womens-football-revolt.html

Well frankly the FA still considers the WPL worthless and only good to act as feeder clubs for the WSL. This is pretty obvious with the FA's WPL website:

http://www.thefa.com/wpl

Note how it's not been updated in months, and the results and fixtures links, as well as being for last season, links to an external site: The full-time leagues website. Nice.
 
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PompeyLapras said:
At least when the likes of Lallana and co left the club, you got lots of money from them which you could reinvest. I wouldn't mind so much the whole players leaving to greener climbs if clubs got anything in return.
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No contracts\transfer fees in Women's football? That's a tough position to be in, ouch!

Note how it's not been updated in months, and the results and fixtures links, as well as being for last season, links to an external site: The full-time leagues website. Nice.
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Yeah, I noticed that - I was highly tempted to email the WPL\FA & ask them if they wanted someone to modernise their website... There isn't a decent WPL fan site around, either. Or if there is, I couldn't find it - compare that to who knows how many sites like this dedicated to men's football. I'm tempted to build one myself!
 
Saintmagic said:
Haha, they surely can't do this? I like how La Liga are getting annoyed now, but didn't give a **** when Barcelona skimped round loads of laws to buy Neymar from Santos
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This. **** la liga.

What grounds do they have?
 
There's a few famous footballing names in the England team tonight!

England Women
  • 13Chamberlain
  • 2Bronze
  • 5Houghton
  • 16Bright
  • 3Stokes
  • 11Moore
  • 10Williams
  • 7Nobbs
  • 23Kirby
  • 18White
  • 9Taylor
 
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