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

[Papa Shango]

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.

The main problem is the massive disparity in ability. There are some good women's goalies out there but then the drop off between the good ones and the "average" ones is huge so you have top level women players playing in the same leagues etc as poor goalkeepers so it results in some pretty weird goals. That can be part of the fun for me though as you never know what is going to happen in a match, even the most tedious bore draw can be turned on its head by a mad goalkeeping mistake.

 

[Tubey]

Not even the slightest bit.

 

[d34noj]

Soon as I realised they don't swap shirts at the end of the game I turned it off.

But seriously, some of the football they play is exceptional technically, it would be interesting to see a PL women's team up against say mens League 1 opposition (not that it would ever be allowed)

 

[Alan Whittle]

The media have supported / hyped (depending on your point of view) Women's football for the last few years. If it encourages more girls to take up or remain in sport that's a great thing. I have no real interest in it, beyond being pleased if Palace Ladies get a result and I don't specifically look for their result. It's all too goody goody for me. There's no tension, fear or anger, which, although are negative emotions, are part of the game that I recognise and am comfortable with. A negative connotation for me is that, unintentionally, this seems to be another plank in the general gentrifying of football. I dislike that part of it intensely.

 

[Brendan Janus]

I can watch women's football, in fact I have been to a few games !!

 

[COYBL25]

Not even the slightest bit.

It's a bit rubbish, that's the main problem.

 

[toffeejack]

i never really cared about it, but would often like the everton ladies to do well, but as soon as they created this WSL and we got relegated because all our best players got pinched by city and the RS bankrolling their teams, i gave up caring.

 

[GrandOldTeam]

I don't watch it for the same reason I don't watch the SPL - the quality of football.

No amount of BBC screaming "LOOK, LOOK, EQUALITY" will change that.

Soon as I realised they don't swap shirts at the end of the game I turned it off.

But seriously, some of the football they play is exceptional technically, it would be interesting to see a PL women's team up against say mens League 1 opposition (not that it would ever be allowed)

Australia’s women’s football team are ranked the fifth best side in world football. So how did they lose 7-0 to a collection of 15-year-old boys?

http://www.standard.co.uk/sport/foo...se-70-to-team-of-15yearold-boys-a3257266.html

 

[Tubey]

I don't watch it for the same reason I don't watch the SPL - the quality of football.

No amount of BBC screaming "LOOK, LOOK, EQUALITY" will change that.

Yep, spot on.

I'm a massive advocate of, say, female boxers, because the technique of the likes of Katie Taylor and Nicola Adams is as good and in some cases better than the men. Objectively.

But female footballers are, for want of a better word, comparatively terrible to men. Goalkeeping is completely awful, as is physical defending.

This is the best female goalkeeper ever...



A massive lack of technique in attacking areas from 99% of them too, meaning it only takes someone to be average to be a superstar.

And the lack of pace and power in the game makes it boring to watch.

Anyone who gets through 10 minutes of your average female game and tells you they aren't bored and continuing to watch for any reason beyond wanting to make some sort of feminist point is lying to you.

 

[The Cowboy]

The media have supported / hyped (depending on your point of view) Women's football for the last few years. If it encourages more girls to take up or remain in sport that's a great thing. I have no real interest in it, beyond being pleased if Palace Ladies get a result and I don't specifically look for their result. It's all too goody goody for me. There's no tension, fear or anger, which, although are negative emotions, are part of the game that I recognise and am comfortable with. A negative connotation for me is that, unintentionally, this seems to be another plank in the general gentrifying of football. I dislike that part of it intensely.

Yeah, it's developed within a family-friendly mindset, there's absolutely no tribalism at all.

I don't think it's gentrification per se, just a symptom of the era it has developed in.

Very similar to UK Ice Hockey in that respect. I used to watch Manchester Storm in their heyday, and it was so incredibly commercial and family-friendly.

'We don't boo the opposition...we just cheer twice as loud for the MAN...CHEST...ER...STOOOOOOORRRRRMMMM'

 

[ijjysmith]

Anyone who gets through 10 minutes of your average female game and tells you they aren't bored and continuing to watch for any reason beyond wanting to make some sort of feminist point is lying to you.

That's a bit too far mate really.

They might just be enjoying it. People like different things. We like wrestling FFS we literally have no leg to stand on.

 

[Tubey]

That's a bit too far mate really.

They might just be enjoying it. People like different things. We like wrestling FFS we literally have no leg to stand on.

Shut up and let me get legitimate bites ffs

 

[ijjysmith]

Shut up and let me get legitimate bites ffs

It's impossible to get bites when someone can just say 'but you like wrestling'.

 

[Tubey]

It's impossible to get bites when someone can just say 'but you like wrestling'.

That's OK, I don't anymore. It's awful.

 

[ijjysmith]

That's OK, I don't anymore. It's awful.

But you used to watch wrestling