Has your interest in womans football increased in the past couple of years ?

[ilikecheese]

What's with the dislikes? Ya can't say women who play football are better looking these days either? PC tory nonsense from the usual suspects. Lighten up.

Moaning about negs gets you more negs. Dems da rulez.

(FYI...some might have been offended by the dyke comment...I know I was and reported it)

 

[Black Belt Jones]

I actually thoroughly enjoyed the Women's World Cup last year; though the standard was incomparable to mens football, it was much better than I expected. But no, it'll probably never garner a strong following. Because women's sport in general just isn't particularly attractive to spectators, largely because it's just not the peak of human ability. I don't think there's a sport where women are stronger or faster or more physical or technically able.
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Not sure the peak of human ability is that relevant, I mean - did you ever see a game of rugby union prior to 1995?
Categorically, objectively [Poor language removed] to anyone with no connection to the sport. The English green-grocer 15 versus the Scottish off-duty policemen 15. England win 3-0. And yet, Twickenham is packed to the rafters, it's on national TV, and (mainly Welsh) Teds are obsessed like it's a real sport.

Point being, a sport can be pretty much garbage in terms of physicality and technique, and people will still watch it in droves for other reasons. So the fact that women's football is slow and limited rel to the men's game, and prob always will be, doesn't mean it can't ever be successful if stories and personalities can develop to engage people.

 

[John23]

Moaning about negs gets you more negs. Dems da rulez.

(FYI...some might have been offended by the dyke comment...I know I was and reported it)

It's a joke lad. PC culture off. Maybe I should've said short haired birds who look butch instead of dykes. Jaysus!

 

[Zezti]

Interest, yeah. But I don't have any desire to watch it or become a fan of it.

I remember watching some of the last Women's World Cup knockout stages and the quality on show was equivalent to about league 2 mens. They just aren't that good, and not as entertaining to watch. I found it quite annoying, actually, that their highest level of play was so poor.
If they got better, then yeah I'd watch them. Give me a female Real Madrid team that can play silky football consistently and I'd watch them.

I've often wondered about the future of football and other sports possibly incorporating mixed teams. I don't have a problem with men playing against women and I like the idea of the best players making the cut regardless of their sex, but I honestly don't think many teams would would have more than 1, if any, woman/women in the starting 11 currently and in modern the political-correctness society you just know there'd be rules like "no fewer than 5 females in the match squad", regardless of whether they're good enough.

Basically, I want to see quality. Women's football just doesn't come close. I guess a lack of airtime and much smaller pay packets contributes to not many young girls not seeing it as a viable career choice and pursuing it.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

What's with the dislikes? Ya can't say women who play football are better looking these days either? PC tory nonsense from the usual suspects. Lighten up.

You're saying you like it more because the girls are prettier and less lesbian looking, as though any woman doing sport is only worthwhile if they're pretty. Plenty of obstacles for girls to overcome if they do sport as it is due to this kind of thinking.

 

[Seathestars]

Half the footy players today should be playing in the women's league anyway, rolling around like big pansys

 

[Eggs]

...it's great that women play sport, too many lose interest in their teens and anything that encourages them to keep fit is great as far as I'm concerned. Girls 'soccer' is apparently very big in the USA so it's good if the games profile is growing on the global stage.

 

[chrismpw]

There has been a big push from the media in the UK (BBC in particular) to give woman's football more coverage over the past couple of years, I understand why they want to do this but Im not sure if it's really having the desired effect.

The BBC posted an article about the woman's premier league recently and made the mistake of enabling comments resulting in all the top voted comments basically telling BBC to stop shoving woman's football down our throats and that no one cares about it... blunt but in my experience true. What i do find surprising is just how much it annoys some people...

So im left wondering is there really any hope of woman's football ever growing to a significant level in this country ? What will it take for it to get to same level as say woman's tennis ? In the US its somewhat popular and there doesn't seem to be a stigma attached to it but in the UK it's pretty much ridiculed and everyone (bar women) seem happy for it to stay that way.

I spent years, at school, coaching boys teams, and then when there was a big group who asked me, girls teams. It was really good to see the game played without the physical bluster of the male game, and it relied more on skill. So yes, I was very interested in watching it develop and even started following a local (adult) ladies team for a while and the England and Everton ladies.
It's all got a bit professional now though, and when the money landed, and clubs who previously showed no interest suddenly saw it as a tool to manipulate ftp, and a ropey team like the rs basically bought our Everton ladies team and won the title with it, I lost heart and interest in it totally.

I also object to it cluttering up he BBC football app. It should be under its own thread, but the same could be said of Scottish football.

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

At the end of the day, there's more football out there than there is available free time for me to watch it

Otherwise I might give the women's game more of a look

 

[Roger Milla]

From what I've seen of it, it is absolutely tosh. I'd much rather go watch a game of non league togger

 

[Papa Shango]

People look at the women's game in the same way as the men's game and expect the same result. That's really not the way to look at it, they are totally different sports.

I do like women's football (mainly the top level stuff like the German and French leagues) mainly because it is a much purer version of the game. The girls generally play for the love of the game, there is a lack of cheating and you also get some very skillful players. Everything seems to mean more to them, it's good to see a player score and actually be happy rather than sneering into a camera or something like some of the bad blerts in the male game do.

The male game has been in danger of eating itself for years now. Other than Everton (which is more of a duty thing than anything..) I can't say I watch much mens football at all these days as it is pretty tedious.

 

[ijjysmith]

My interest probably has increased slightly to be fair.

 

[coollino]

It's a joke lad. PC culture off. Maybe I should've said short haired birds who look butch instead of dykes. Jaysus!

You get arrested for being English these days!

 

[coollino]

Like any football, I'd probably watch it if it was on 'normal' TV.

The World Cup was pretty enjoyable.

 

[The Cowboy]

The goalkeeping, long the butt of many a joke, has definitely improved. Still a bit sketchy at times, but doesn't stand out as a weak point of the game anymore.

There's a great vid on YouTube of some old women's goalkeeping, it really is quite special.