Just watched the England Scotland highlights and these girls (both teams) could teach the lads a thing or two. Passing, tackling, penalties and passion
Just watched the England Scotland highlights and these girls (both teams) could teach the lads a thing or two. Passing, tackling, penalties and passion
But the Scottish girls mimic their male counterparts long history of plucky failure.
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Originally Posted by stefmcd
Boys have played grittily for years and consistently snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. We do it all the time, in all sports. Look at the mauling we gave England in the 6 nations. Still couldn't beat em. We're the all time glorious losers.
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Off to watch England Vs Argentina next Friday.
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Watched the first half...passing was woeful, tackling was amateurish, decently took penalty...below the junior game and I'm probably being generous there! Just my opinion!Just watched the England Scotland highlights and these girls (both teams) could teach the lads a thing or two. Passing, tackling, penalties and passion
The extra physicality in the men’s game makes a big difference to how the game flows. The women’s game is a lot more pedestrian in comparison and normally they get more time on the ball. They are pretty skilful generally though. The huge difference is in the goalies. They are generally woeful for some reason though the size of the goal being the same as the men’s may have something to do with it.
I have watched the highlights of most of the watches and agree the standard of goal keeping is awful. Butter fingers come to mind!
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Coverage and plugging by the BBC of this is way out of proportion to the interest in it IMO.
Agreed. If they were playing in my back garden I would close the curtains.
Agreed. I've tried watching the women's game, but much like watching league 2, the standard is so far away from the pl and cl it's just not that entertaining.
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I have been enjoying it for 8 years or so now while i have grown increasing fed up with the mens.
The players seem to be more like the players i remember in the 90s when i was growing up.
ie not dead rich, mercenary and care about and enjoy the game.
Martin
Perhaps not CL level but I dare to bet that most of those ladies are fitter and better players than most keyboard-soccer heroes here... It's only a matter of time. Take field hockey, cycling or sailing as other examples of proper ladies' achievements.
M
These girls are inspirational for young girls who love their football. My nine year old plays and we've watched most games together. The mistake a lot of people make is comparing it to the men's game. It's a very different game.
The standard is way higher than it was four years ago, that's for sure.
Technically they're very good, physically they're fit and the aggression is definitely there; did you see China and Nigeria?
I fully support the girls, the competition and female football. The other 6.1m who watched England v Scotland do too.
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Some strong skills in the Brazil v Australia.
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Surely with about 500 channels + streaming and mobile it’s worth experimenting with ‘minority’ interests, otherwise we’d be watching Britain’s Got Talent every day.
Women’s football games in the early 1900s apparently used to get tens of thousands of spectators until 1921 when the FA banned women from playing at FA clubs, until 1971! Effectively the game lost at least 50 years of development, during a period when the men’s game changed beyond recognition (remember Puskas and the Hungarians teaching us a lesson in the 50s, removal of the wage cap etc.).
If you don’t like it, watch something else but why moan about it?
OK not pc just a bit of fun but if the competition is not for you just move on i do it with baseball,basketball,F1,darts,ODI and on and on.
Easier to avoid those other sports. New bulletins, breakfast TV etc full of this tosh.
OK not pc just a bit of fun but if the competition is not for you just move on i do it with baseball,basketball,F1,darts,ODI and on and on.
I have no interest in it, feel its like watching a kids friendly every time I've tried, yet its all over tv (stupid advert which goes on for ever) and now they are talking about a result were someone won 13-0 and saying it was disrespectful to the opponents because they celebrated when they scored, for the love of god...
Just joining up the two threads with the same name. Mike made a point that hockey is a lot more popular than women’s football but hardly gets any coverage. I mentioned the hockey coverage on BT Sport, which Mike rightly pointed out isn’t terrestrial free to air.
The hockey and the football are both on at the moment. I have to say Jamaica v Italy womens football seems a lot more popular than Spain vs New Zealand mens hockey.
I suppose I am trying to prove a point, which is surely its fine to televise both.
In the U.S., soccer is a second (or third) tier sport. I never watch men's soccer ("football") of any sort, and just have no interest...but I am a big fan of women's World Cup and Olympic soccer.
I guess I see enough elite men's competition in NFL football, NBA basketball, and ML Baseball.
I tell you what, the England Argentina game is really hotting up.
Get in!
The Argentina goalkeeper played a blinder, the referee was Argentinas second best player
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We enjoyed that game, better than watching Rooney latterly ambling round the field.
Nowt wrong with a bit of ladies footie on the telly.
Sweet goal from jodi taylor after finally a dangerous cross.
Surprised how poor parish penalty was compared to the confidence shown against scotland.
Still, their goalie played well compared to how poor the commentors made her out to be.
Missed both the power and placement of the scotland pen.
Any how a better performance overall than scotland as we dominated both halves.
It was a great cross, shame she had been quite erratic before that or we would have had more goals. Mead and Woodford look quite a good pairing on the left wing.
Goalie stuff (more or less what I said before) https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/48650306
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