Women's Football

[Bacchus]

Why do they bother? Nobody watches it and never will and don't give me this dross as to how many turned up at FAW Cup Final..80% of the tickets are given gratis just to fill it up. The FA should be spending the money they waste on furthering the non-league cause..Anyway, women should be at home cooking the dinner on a Sunday afternoon ready for when we men get home from the pub!!!

 

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[MbrunoB]

Everybody has the right to play football no matter what age,colour gender or as you prove mental age.

 

[Southport Jr.]

where did you come from anyway?! who r u?!

 

i know everybody is entitled to their opinion and blah blah blah but... um... your opinion is WRONG

 

womens football is getting bigger and better.

[Bacchus]

Getting better? Where did you get your stats from? It may be getting bigger in participation, that I will hold my hands up to, but it's a bit like fishing...many like to do it, but who would seriously consider it a spectator sport...Let em stick to loading the dish washer on a Sunday..

 

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[Bacchus]

What's mental age got to do with not liking something? As many of you Townies assert, it is all about opinions. I have nothing against any gender etc etc etc playing footy, but my OPIN [color:"red"] [/color] ION is that it will hardly be the thing of the future. You guys are struggling to get 300+ a week to watch a semi-successful non-league side so what chance do women have? So instead of cherchez la femme, the FA should put the money into something more viable..Easy, eh?

 

 

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[Southport - TOWNER]

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[Bacchus]

Gone off that topic now, after today's result from Villa Park!! Nothing pleases more than to see Pig Island get a good tonking!!!

 

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[Southport Jr.]

well because they are putting more money n more publicity into it, it must be getting somewhere. besides; i'd rather watch our women play football than sit inside bored on a sunday afternoon.

 

and im sure a few men dont mind watching 22 women run round playing their favourite sport.!

[Bacchus]

Fair point and well made...But just show me the attendances from the FAW Premier League from the past few years. I've never seen any issued.

It's a bit like Ryman Two..Regular attendances never issued because they are so low (until next season when and if they let the Townies in) they are afraid of upsetting the sponsors.

 

 

 

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[MbrunoB]

The mental age had more to do with your so called points than your opinion,I am press officer for the Town ladies and have friends at the mens side of the club with no interest in watching the ladies and that is up to them,but this is still no reason for stopping the ladies playing.

The game is reaching a higher standard all the time and as with any sport will only improve with coaching and experience.

If you have no interest in the game dont watch it,me I cant stand golf or rugby so I take no interest in it what so ever,but I dont advocate banning them.

[Bacchus]

a) a point is an opinion, surely, I have never advocated banning women or anyone playing come to that matter. I just feel that the FA are wasting their time pumping money into something that will never come to fruition. c) I refer the lady/gentleman to my previous post, ie show me the attendances and not the games where gratis tickets are handed out. d) errr there is no d.

 

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[Football Man]

I don't watch a lot of ladies football myself but we stage Arsenal Ladies reserve matches at Potters Bar and I was consequently invited to their UEFA Cup Semi Final 2nd Leg match last season at Barnet.

 

I was amazed to find that there was only one UEFA representative there (from Scandinavia, I think) and I got the distinct impression he didn't really want to be there and that the freebie weekend in London probably swung it for him.

 

Apart from David Dein, who was presumably there in his Arsenal Vice Chairman capacity, nobody else from the FA showed up. In fact the hospitality (VIP) area after the game was a remarkably quiet place for such a prestigious match.

 

Good luck to all who particpiate in or watch women's football but, until FIFA, UEFA, the FA, the Sports Ministry and various other key people in the soccer world start treating it seriously, I fear that it is never going to have a future as a popular sport outside of those countries (such as the USA) where it has already taken off.

[Sharon]

Bacchus, you've missed the point. I'm not sure I've heard many people claiming that womens football is/will be a big spectator sport. We have over 120 playing members in the Town Ladies section - and I for one am glad we can provide football for that many local girls and women. Without some FA help it would be impossible to get sponsors and therefore impossible to run the club without having prohibitively high subscription fees and stopping the poorer members of our community joining in.

 

The FA supports other areas of football as well for instance disabled football and nobody is saying that because that doesn't draw big crowds it shouldn't be supported. Sport (and football) should be for all.

 

End of rant!

[Mr Happy]

Here, here. My 3year old daughter loves footie and can kick a ball better than many lads of her age. I cannot wait to get her into ETLFC when she's old enough.

[The Invisible Man]

For me, the point is it's FOOTBALL. That's all that matters, not whether you're old or young, male or female, able bodied or with a disability, tall or short, fat or thin, whatever your skin tone or other physical charcateristic, nationality, religion, cult or politics, good at football or hopeless, playing in front of millions or no-one at all, it's all football, the greatest game in the world that we all love.

 

The FA - or any othetr natinal or county FA - should support ANYONE who plays or wants to play or be involved in football, the beautiful game.

[Mr Happy]

Well said. I have a nephew in a wheelchair and he plays wheelchair footie orgasnised by the Middlesex FA.

[Colin, Germany]

Women's football may well turn into a big spectator sport in time. In countries where men's football has less of a tradition, there have been some very big attendances already.

 

However, support now is needed for getting people more active, and many women and even more girls are attracted to football for the same sorts of reasons as have attracted generations of men and boys. There is a strong trend towards participation in sports, and this is surely going to continue for some time. Football, being a team sport, requires more organisation than e.g. Nordic walking. So a club which offers football to women and girls of all ability levels, and also takes its aim of being part of the community seriously, is surely worthy of support.