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Women's World Cup

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  • Imagine the uproar on here if the BBC4 "Michael Portillo on a train" show was postponed for the Women's World Cup
  • You are correct...many people will just watch football because it's football and that's an easy way for the BBC to justify its agenda with viewing figures. When its over, the game will still attract less than 1000 people at its top level in this country. Personally, I'm one of the biggest football fans you will ever meet and I really struggle with watching it. I would genuinely rather watch women's swimming or cycling than women's football. Change that to men and obviously it would be no competition.

    As I said, horse racing is a hugely popular sport in this country and one that's heavily influenced by females. The BBC just gave that up pretty easily.
    But surely you could say exactly the same thing for most of the sports post London Olympics? People were going mad to get tickets for shooting/kayaking/dressage, anything they could lay their hands on and if they couldn't get tickets they were watching on TV even during prime time hours.

    How many people have been going to watch this sports since then? I doubt it's significantly more than before.

    The BBC has a wide remit as a public service broadcaster. They have to make entertainment for the masses but also more worthy stuff that has a smaller audience and has therefore been difficult for more commercial driven broadcasters to make. Take some of the output on BBC4 for example - there's some great stuff one there but not much of it exactly has the mass appeal of X Factor.

    Covering this world cup will be much cheaper than making say a David Attenborough wildlife series, brilliant though they are. I thin most of the presenters/pundits are in a studio in the UK, pictures will be purchased form the host broadcaster, so really all you have to do is fly a couple of presenters and sound engineers etc to Canada and put them up in hotels.

    The fact there are other sports struggling for TV coverage isn't a reason not to show this world cup, it's a reason to show more of those sports as well as this world cup.
  • 9pm tonight,
    Germany V Norway.
    A higher standard ladies game.

    Serena Williams would lose to the 100th Rated Men's player.
    Breaking news..... Men and Women are different.

    Try watching the Conference and Scottish football on TV when your a neutral.
    exciting it's not.

    I think i get it that some of you don't like watching women play Football.
  • They're different but increasingly less so, especially in the realm of sports, now that they're not being treated as second-class citizens by the majority of men (with a few lovely exceptions)

    Women will play top-level men's sport here in England inside the next decade.
  • Leuth said:

    They're different but increasingly less so, especially in the realm of sports, now that they're not being treated as second-class citizens by the majority of men (with a few lovely exceptions)

    Women will play top-level men's sport here in England inside the next decade.

    Kate Cross the England Bowler and daughter of ex hammer David Cross,
    Played for Heywood in the Lancs League and took 3 for 19.
    Should have been 4-19 but her brother Billy dropped a dolly off her bowling.

    Football and Tennis,(mixed doubles Ok But singles ?) i can't see it,

    Horse Racing must be the nearest to a breakthrough as Show jumping where technique is important, seems a level playing field.



  • edited June 2015
    Charlton must have an equality agenda too, what with the womens team.

    ....and much like your TV licence money being squandered on the Womens World Cup, a chunk of your match ticket money is being thrown at this less entertaining brand of football played by ladies, in Charltons name no less!
  • Leuth said:

    They're different but increasingly less so, especially in the realm of sports, now that they're not being treated as second-class citizens by the majority of men (with a few lovely exceptions)

    Women will play top-level men's sport here in England inside the next decade.

    If a woman footballer plays above Ryman League football within the next 10 years I'll sit next to your girlfriend and let her commentate to me on the whole season of games at the valley.
  • The BBC are showing women's football, because Sky have bought up the rights, to most of the other sports, that the BBC used to show.
  • 9pm tonight,
    Germany V Norway.
    A higher standard ladies game.

    Serena Williams would lose to the 100th Rated Men's player.
    Breaking news..... Men and Women are different.

    Try watching the Conference and Scottish football on TV when your a neutral.
    exciting it's not.

    I think i get it that some of you don't like watching women play Football.

    Conference and Scottish football is miles better to watch than women's football.
  • Leuth said:

    They're different but increasingly less so, especially in the realm of sports, now that they're not being treated as second-class citizens by the majority of men (with a few lovely exceptions)

    Women will play top-level men's sport here in England inside the next decade.

    If they do, I'll eat my Springer Spaniel out
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  • edited June 2015

    Conference and Scottish football is miles better to watch than women's football.
    You got "miles better" and "scottish football" in the same sentence.
  • CAFCTrev said:

    You got "miles better" and "scottish football" in the same sentence.
    And also "women's football". You're pretty good at this reading Trev!
  • And also "women's football". You're pretty good at this reading Trev!
    Would be easier if I wasnt, I might still have faith in humanity....
  • CAFCTrev said:

    Would be easier if I wasnt, I might still have faith in humanity....
    You wanna get yourself over to the rumour thread with an over reaction like that.
  • (I think it'll be in cricket, btw)

    Germany already tucking into Norway joyfully. They're going to win this thing, aren't they?
  • edited June 2015
    Leuth said:

    (I think it'll be in cricket, btw)

    Germany already tucking into Norway joyfully. They're going to win this thing, aren't they?

    German domination. English and German women teams mirror the mens in the pecking order and gulf in quality.
  • Women's cycling on C4 - whatever next?
    ;-)
    Loved all the games of women's football I went to during the Olympics.
  • Decent enough game this. Feels like an FA Cup match with the professional players coming up against a semi-pro side who are cutting their options and closing them down quickly. Worth watching
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  • And therefore once again it comes down to the BBC's agenda rather than actual entertainment, which was the original point i made, and why i understand why some people have got the hump.

    The average attendance of a women's Premier League game last season. 728. Thats popularity for you!

    The second point....you've just answered the question for me!
    The BBC is a left wing organisation with its own agendas despite having a charter to be impartial.

    None of that makes it wrong to show ladies football though.

    World Cup attract more interest than league games in the mens game too incidentally. The casual fan will take an interest.

    It will also be interesting to see whether that average attendance figure of 728 you quote is higher next season following TV exposure on terrestial channels which the majority can actually access.
  • Kate Cross the England Bowler and daughter of ex hammer David Cross,
    Played for Heywood in the Lancs League and took 3 for 19.
    Should have been 4-19 but her brother Billy dropped a dolly off her bowling.

    Football and Tennis,(mixed doubles Ok But singles ?) i can't see it,

    Horse Racing must be the nearest to a breakthrough as Show jumping where technique is important, seems a level playing field.



    Hayley Turner and others win their share of races against the men on the flat.
  • Regardless of the standard of football the games feel very flat. Watching the Germany v Norway game i can hear all the players and absolutely nothing from the crowd.
  • Nothing wrong with that free kick.

    Come on Norway!
  • Germany have stopped playing. Somehow 1-1. Unthinkable halfway through the first half
  • great freekick from Norway, can people please stop slagging women's football off now please

    Like any mans game there are some poor moments but some moments of magic
  • Free kick was a belter! Couldn't have been any more in the top corner.
  • Absolute perfection that free kick
  • Are the managers predominately men at national level or WSL level?
  • Other than Suzi none of our lady fans have commented.

    I'd be interested to hear more of the female viewpoint.
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