We watched it too - or most it. I’ve recorded all the England games but there’s been no demand to watch them. I’m outnumbered 2 to one gender wise and both of them are now Argyle season ticket holders but they haven’t been riveted by the World Cup. All the preceding games have been deleted unwatched. I think the standard of play has improved but it’s still somewhere around National League if you ask me. I winced as soon as that pass was played that led to the ball being lost and Australia scoring. A good case in point. The stadium was full yesterday of course but I’m unsure about other games. From what little I’ve seen, attendances at English league games are sparse. I’m all in favour of money being spent encouraging women’s football but complaints about elite pay are premature until crowds grow. Presumably the 250 tickets for the final left over after FIFA and/or its female counterpart have taken their cut have been sold out in advance. Whether the World Cup boosts domestic attendances remains to be seen. Still, any victory over Australia is a good one whether it’s football, cricket, rugby or tiddlywinks. There’s just the one nation I detest and they’re it.
PS Pretty much every televised men's football match now has a commentating team almost entirely made up of women with the odd token male. This is of course for two reasons: we can't have gender bias and women know as much about the men's game as men do. I was wondering whether we'd see a different balance during the women's World Cup. We haven't: it's still entirely made up of women with the odd token male and a foreign token male too boot. This is of course for two reasons: gender balance doesn't matter in women's football and men don't know as much about the women's game as women do, now **** off and mind your own business. As we all know, the definition of misogyny is "dislike of, contempt for, or ingrained prejudice against women" whereas the definition of misandry is "there's no such thing, obviously, as woman would never biased like that and by the way, all men are rapists".
Somewhat tongue in cheek but it’s true. There’s no place for the John Motson’s of this world nowadays. Sheepskin coats are a symbol of male hegemony.
I just love the sight of high heels sinking into astro turf. Hmmmmm!! I never get into the sport argument with my missus. The last time I said to her "so what do you know about bleddy football then" the answer was "I know you aren't watching it on tele tonight". And I didn't. Not worth the hassle.
High heels? That’s on Sky surely? The same Sky Sports which years ago recruited gorgeous girls to present on football programmes irrespective of whether they actually knew anything about football, dressed them In tiny skirts and then sacked Andy Gray and Richard Keys when they were overheard making “inappropriate comments”. I’m sure such comments weren’t made anywhere else in the UK and this was inappropriate by the standards of Rupert Murdoch and the super soaraway Page 3 Sun. Anyway, top sports story on the BBC this morning is whether the Dutch manager of the England women’s football team might in future take on the men’s team. I’ll leave that idea with you.
She's a woman so not to pick her would be.....anti-women, sexually discriminating, glass ceiling syndrome, she is prettier than Gareth Southgate, has reached a World Cup Final, Maybe a World Cup Winner, and she is the best man in the room of course, Woke and possibly the politically correct thing to do. and....if there was a decent bone in Gareth Southgate's body he would instantly step down NOW. and..... Alex Scott should be preferred on Match of the Day instead Gary Lineker. and ....men should just be used for breeding....but that is already changing.....males might be put down at birth one day.....I feel quite depressed now.
Don't worry plymborn you won't be alive anyway and your breeding days are probably passed. I frankly don't care who manages England. The only question is if they are good enough then they are ok with me. Playing is different st the moment rather than management. The players are not up to the same standard no matter what anyone says. They are beter than I have ever been but not professional level. If one does turn up then I would have no problem with them playing for Argyle, I watch Sky at my club on a matchday which is where I have seen the heels by the way. As for pundits well why not. You can have knowledge of something without even playing it personally.
High heels? That’s on Sky surely? The same Sky Sports who years ago recruited gorgeous girls to present on football programmes irrespective of whether they actually knew anything about football, dressed them In tiny skirts and then sacked Andy Gray and Richard Keys when they were overheard making “inappropriate comments”. I’m sure such comments weren’t made anywhere else in the UK and this was inappropriate by the standards of Rupert Murdoch and the super soaraway Page 3 Sun. Anyway, top sports story on the BBC this morning
Sorry but I really don't care if they are male or female as long as they know their subject. Wearing a short skirt is not a pointer to lack of intelligence or knowledge of football. There are plenty of male pundits who talk bollox all the time.
That’s the complete opposite of what I’m saying! Those girls might have had Oxbridge honours degrees in Classics or Molecular Biology for all I know but one thing was self-evident - Sky Sports, then run by Sun owner Rupert Murdoch, had picked them for the way they looked and nothing else. They’d then dressed them in a “uniform” in Sky colours and send them out as eye-candy to talk from an auto-cue on subjects they obviously knew nothing about. That’s utterly demeaning and even then, probably a breach of employment law, and rightly so. The women involved may have been happy to do it but that’s neither here nor there. The current cohort of female presenters are different: they’re either professional journos or ex players. Fair enough, particularly in coverage of the women’s game, but what I’m questioning is what looks like the impending extinction of the male presenter or pundit. That’s going too far in the other direction. It’s good to see the women’s team doing well and I’m all in favour of team sports which it will help encourage. But the idea that the women’s manager, used as you rightly say to National League opponents and players, could step into Southgate’s shoes shows how far the hype has over-run itself.
Wokism bangs another nail into common sense......A new version of Cinderella has come out.... without the seven dwarfs'. Not much of a story line left if you get rid of the dwarfs' surely. That means seven dwarfs made redundant.....if you can't employ dwarfs acting as dwarfs what the hell can you employ them as ?????...........Superman or Mr Bond maybe.
Well an inspiring feminist piece nevertheless, recording a young girl’s escape from domestic servitude. That prince will have to go though. Perhaps instead she starts her own business in the wellness sector and subsequently becomes the CEO of a FTSE 100 company to achieve the required female quota. The pumpkin can stay: not only carbon neutral transport but vegan too. Excellent choice. Note to self: check public attitudes toward servitude of equine power units. Carbon footprint and sourcing of the glass slippers needs thinking about. Recycled glass rather than freshly quarried sand? 100% green energy?
And so it continues.......The perfume industry is facing calls to ban using the words..."oriental" and "exotic" in describing scents because of their allegedly racist connotations. A petition on Change.org calls for an end to the "offensive" and "derogatory" terms. Is their no end to this lunacy....I expect the day will soon come when Artists will not be allowed to use White/Brown/Black/Yellow/ etc..etc..etc....paints....because they have racial connotations. We will have to make up new words to be able to mention these colours......maybe the word "colour" will be next on the agenda.....and the world will just become "bland". It's all coming under the heading...."That perception changes".
This country seems intent on throwing itself open to every possible threat to our security. There is opposition to new North Sea oil licences which would merely ensure that at least some of the energy we consume is produced locally By all means phase out demand for CO2 producing fuels but don’t cut our own production until that’s been done. We’re taking forever to build nuclear power plants to gas fired electricity plants. We’re not investing in the electricity distribution networks that are needed to connect up to solar and wind generation. We’re switching subsidies from food production to green initiatives and allowing bodies such as Natural England to designate highland and other areas as SSSI’s which can’t be farmed. We’re signing post-Brexit trade deals which allow food imports that undermine our own environmental, food safety, animal welfare and environmental standards whist also threatening the security of home production. Now it transpires that the last plant in the UK producing nitrogen and thereby ammonia and agricultural fertiliser is to close. This will leave us exposed to having to import from overseas, including Saudi Arabia. That’s the Saudi Arabia that’s cut oil production again and increased UK petrol pump prices by 10ppl in the last month. Is the Government entirely asleep at the wheel?
The news this morning is of course full of the Women’s the World Cup. It reminds me to report one of the great moments of football journalism. Before the match, a journalist interviewed a little girl, 4 or 5 perhaps. Beautiful dress. curly blonde hair…. Have you been watching the Lionesses? Oh yes I have, with my Mummy and Daddy! Have you enjoyed it? Oh yes very much! It’s very exciting! Do you thing England will win? Yes! 2-0! So far so good so the journalist pressed on. Has it made you feel you want to play football or perhaps another sport? No, not really. End of interview.
