IanM
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Womens World Cup next year.... they couldn't, could they?
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GB72
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Sadly I think that the media will have a big part to play in keeping the womens' game at at the forefront of peoples attentions and my cocern is that by the middle of the week it will be 'nothing to see over there, come and have a look at our shiny premier league' and all of the rhetoric spouted over the last few weeks will be soon forgotten and, like so many other sports and events, it will be steamrollered by the Premier League hype train.
Hope I am wrong and I hope that the clubs will be doing all that they can to up the proomotion of the womens' game
Hope I am wrong and I hope that the clubs will be doing all that they can to up the proomotion of the womens' game
Tashyboy
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Wonder what the odds are on who will win Team SPOTY ?
GB72
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May still get OK odds as I suspect that it will depend on how the men do at the World Cup irrespective of how anyone feels about who deserves it more.
clubchamp98
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That will depend more on which schools havnt sold their sports field for housing.
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Think the biggest hurdle right now is getting it all sustainable
Believe currently right now there is more money coming from the FA and Lottery etc to support the leagues etc because there isn’t enough money from the sponsorships etc
So the league at the moment isn’t sustainable to stand on its own
imo what needs to happen is the Clubs that the ladies teams are associated to need to provide more financial support for each club.
If the ladies clubs are left to fend for themselves then it’s not going to take long before clubs start to struggle to be full time
Tashyboy
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A quick search on Google shows the bum deal that women got in football from the powers that be.The FA. One could say there are similarities between Golf and football when it comes to women. I remember the good ole days When Rainworth welfare ladies a pit team were one of the top teams in the country alongside the Doncaster Belles. Alas no more.
IanM
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The sustainability issue is one all the way down the football pyramid outside the top clubs... or unless they have wealthy backers.
Maybe the crowds in the WSL will grow this season??
Maybe the crowds in the WSL will grow this season??
There are only so many hours in the timetable, so many hours for PE. If one sport gets inserted, one has to leave.
As with many sports now, it is the clubs at local level that become the real drivers, that is where the support needs to go. The fight for pitches will become more frantic so hopefully they don't build housing on every spare piece of land.
If the game is to remain truly professional then this has to happen. It's okay for PL teams to subsidise their teams but you can not expect championship teams and below to pour money away. Most of them are fragile enough.
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Crowds and media deals plus sponserships etc have to increase to allow the league to continue to be fully professional and to support the national teams etc
Would be good for the buzz of the recent win to carry the sport forward , it needs to create a legacy , unfortunately as seen after 2012 the legacy doesn’t last long unless it’s fully supported
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Nice to see the German newspapers are taking it well, still bitter about 66 as well it sems:
One of the biggest newspapers in Germany, Bild, have gone even further, claiming the 2003 and 2007 world champions were ‘scammed’ and ‘cheated’ during the record-breaking final.
Many Germany fans still feel aggrieved over England’s controversial third goal in the 1966 World Cup final and Bild said: ‘Wembley fraud again! Even with video evidence, we are being scammed.
‘In the 2-1 defeat after extra time we are cheated again almost exactly 56 years after the Wembley goal scandal.’
One of the biggest newspapers in Germany, Bild, have gone even further, claiming the 2003 and 2007 world champions were ‘scammed’ and ‘cheated’ during the record-breaking final.
Many Germany fans still feel aggrieved over England’s controversial third goal in the 1966 World Cup final and Bild said: ‘Wembley fraud again! Even with video evidence, we are being scammed.
‘In the 2-1 defeat after extra time we are cheated again almost exactly 56 years after the Wembley goal scandal.’
hovis
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This is the issue. The media shouldn't need to keep the game at the forefront of people's mind. The women's game should be entertaining enough to sell itself.
KenL
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But, that's what papers do!
fundy
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Reportedly £80 for a season ticket to Arsenal which gets you 11 home league games and a minimum of 2 cup games.
If crowds dont go it wont be because of pricing!
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Never been around when England have won a final so assumed that the whole, bitter, it must be the ref, we were robbed thing was just the English Media.
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It's nothing to do with the pricing for me. I just don't find womens football entertaining. I am a Birmingham City fan and I don't go to many matches anymore because the standard of football is just poor. The comparison watching a team like Liverpool compared to Birmingham City is night and day.
This is not a female thing before I get acused if being a bigot. I don't like men's tennis because it's all about the serve. Womens tennis imo is much more enjoyable to watch
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Crowds in the WSL will grow. The women's game has also been gaining momentum for some time after being deliberately suppressed by the FA for so long. Claims that the game is not necessarily of the same standard have been shown up to be untrue. The England games have been some of the best games I've ever seen.
Some people will hopefully realise that they are being fleeced by the men's clubs. I never understand why ordinary people have any loyalty to clubs that are only interested in taking their money to give to their millionaire players.
Some people will hopefully realise that they are being fleeced by the men's clubs. I never understand why ordinary people have any loyalty to clubs that are only interested in taking their money to give to their millionaire players.
Swango1980
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Looks like all scummy media are the same, they do exactly the same over here.
I don't read German, but glanced at the article, used Google Translate for some of it and watched the highlights again on YouTube. It appears the German media link you mentioned is complaining about a handball at 0-0, during the goal mouth scramble in the first half. They are ridiculously clutching at straws, given the ball was kicked from about a foot from a group of 2 or 3 defenders, and may have hit a hand. A hand that was not in an unnatural position, nor stopping the ball going into the net.
I wonder if journalists are genuinely bitter people, or they are simply feeding on the bitter sections of the public, knowing they'll be attracted towards their nonsense article.
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I think any sports article that pretty much claims that their team did not lose, they were cheated will find a home amongst a certain set of supporters. It is almost gratifying to know that it is not just an English thing (we just get to experience it more).
Always love how one incident so clearly changes a match every time. OK, so that penalty is awarded, it could be missed and England go on the counter and score, it could be scored and England are so fired up by what they feel is in unfair decision that they stick 5 in, England could totally capitulate and let in a shed load, who knows but the media stance that one event, if treated differently, would always result in the opposition winning is laughable.
