Gonna go to this, been wanting to catch an England womens game for a while, theyre playing good football of late and it should be a good game against the 5 times world champions. Cant argue with £10 for a Wembley game!
thefa.com/news/england/womens/2014/sep/england-womens-team-v-germany-wembley-090914
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Don't get me wrong, they are all far better footballers than I was or will ever be, but because I am used to mens football it just seemed so boring.
And why the Beeb have to spend my licence money on it in the name of equality I don't know?
Before you know it there will be men doing cooking and stuff!
Women playing football. Hardly something you would pay to see?
Stating you do not want to watch women's football because the standard is low, compared to professional English men's football, does not make a person a misogynist.
It looks like one person made what is clearly an ironic comment about
women + football = men + cooking
but it's pretty clear they were making a joke too.
Everyone else has said they would watch it, or that the reason they wouldn't is because the standard is too low for them to find it entertaining.
Personally, I don't mind women's football, but I can take it or leave it.
Apart from some flippant comments, it does seem that the reason people won't watch is because they think the standard is poor, NOT because it's women playing. So this can't be summed up as "misogyny at its best" in my humble opinion.
Sometimes jokes can misfire or be inappropriate, but this thread looks pretty tame to me.
Best of luck to them though.
It's because it's a shiite standard of football!
Shouting misoginist to counter people's legitimate opinions on women's football is very counter productive.
But hey, there are ppl who would refuse to watch Dulwich Hamlet because they see it as a lower standard of footy so hey-ho....
Faith in humanity reduced.