Men’s football has taken 150 years to get to where it is now and it had to start from scratch. Creating their own clubs, building their own grounds, building a supporter base over generation after generation. It was obviously a horribly cynical thing to do to ban women playing in the early 20th century, but then women didn’t even have the vote then so that tells you how women were thought of at the time in general. The WSL has had a leg up by being able to involve already globally recognised clubs and facilities, grounds, training grounds etc. they simply wouldn’t have without the men’s game. It’s moving forward and will get better, it’ll just get where it wants to be when it does naturally.
Foreign secretary James Cleverley being sent out to Aus to watch England this weekend. Poor show from UK royals and govt. imo.
That's why there is more than 1 football. Mens, Womens, U21, U 18 kids of all different ages. Just like in most other sports, it only gets unfair when blokes put on a dress claim to be a woman and enter womens sports.
Police and councils are being urged to ignore pubs serving alcohol early on Sunday. Cornwall authorities have already stated they'll comply. Will Humberside police follow suit?
Just watching Bremen v Bayern Munich The photo of Harry Kane when the teams were shown didnt look a bit like him!
It's funny/not funny, I've just read that the International Chess Federation has temporarily (for about 2 yrs) banned trans women from entering women's tournaments. Really? And yes, chess is recognised as a sport. World's going effing bonkers.
there's nowhere near as many women chess players as men chess players it gives women a chance to be at the top of their sport having said that, at the competitive level I played at the competitions were open to men and women
Time for a chess joke What do you call two chess enthusiasts bragging in a lobby?Chess nuts boasting in an open foyer.
At a chess competition in London I met a female chess player from Lithuania I invited her to my chess club and arranged a simultaneous chess match for her she played 20 players (only one of them was female) and won 19 and drew one eventually she emigrated to USA and was joint winner of the U.S. Women's Chess Championship
I used to play on my junior school chess team at North Ferriby, and our best player was the daughter of a very well known local and national person. Co-ed chess. She went on to become English Schools age group chess champion at about 12 or 13. She was rather good, carried our team of course!
she stayed with me for a week as a friend but she had to go back to Lithuania - this was when the USSR was in control
