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We need to talk about woman and football

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I long for the days of only male pundits. These women don’t have a clue. We need more proper male pundits giving us proper knowledgable tactical insights, such as:

"When they don't score, they hardly ever win”
Michael Owen

"Peter Schmeichel will be like a father figure to Kasper Schmeichel."
Jamie redknapp.

"He’s got a knock on his shin there, just above the knee.”
Mark Lawrenson.

"Brazil are totally reliant on one player – Neymar and Silva."
Martin Keown

"Not only has he shown Junior Lewis the red card, but he’s sent him off."
David Pleat.
 
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I do love how people talk like Football is some mystical art that you have to have top level experience in to comment on it.

It's kicking a ball into a net. The most popular sport on the planet due to its simplicity.

One day it would be nice if it was just a case of a good pundits/commentators and a bad ones.
 
chrismpw said:
I don't like all the incessant chit chat around football. We need 1 knowledgeable presenter (could be the commentator) that is there purely on merit - because they're good at it. That can be male or female as far as I'm concerned- so long as there's equality - take it in turns. Perhaps a proper journalist, someone that makes a living from reporting sport. Hate to hark on about rugby but in both codes they involve former internationals that don't chat anything like the crud the footballers do.

I get annoyed when there's all women teams (men excluded) presenting women's football and then, for 'equality' there's women always inserted at a men's match. The so considered equality quota that requires involvement from previously overlooked groups* What annoys me about this is not the women or what they have to say, it's just the apparent inequality that's allowed one way and not the other. Phallocentric dominance is over, and the world is more inclusive now, adapt or be forgotten. But like I say, I skip all the blather and only turn on at kick off normally- in the rare event that it's on the telly and the rare event its a match of any significance.

Even then the game is more often ruined by var and corruption than whomever is chatting about it. A game of the past.
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McCoist is on comms, and for that I am thankful, a sense of humour makes up for a deficit here or there, not that that's an accusation, knows his football, played to a high enough standard, loves the game, isn't banal. Atmosphere at this game is good, great to hear the crowd so engaged from the off.
 

Rita_Poon said:
McCoist is on comms, and for that I am thankful, a sense of humour makes up for a deficit here or there, not that that's an accusation, knows his football, played to a high enough standard, loves the game, isn't banal. Atmosphere at this game is good, great to hear the crowd so engaged from the off.
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Yeah I actually like McCoist (I know a lot don't.) He actually sounds happy to be there which is a rarity these days.
 
I can’t watch any punditry, just a load of banal tosh, male or female. For live games on telly, I watch the match from the actual kick off till half time. Pause it and go and get a drink and munchies, then fast forward to the second half. Turn off at full time. I’m capable of coming to my own opinions about key moments in the game, and quietly seeth on my own if things haven’t gone our way, which is most games.
 

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