Angry men about womens football

Further to my last post. I think Women should be given their own BBC Channel or Channels.

With the TV Licence reaching around a whopping one hundred and seventy pounds. And less people now paying it.
We should get in there, while the going is good.

They spent a shit load of money on BBC 3
which was a disaster from the start. Watched by less than 3 per cent of young people and where the content is mainly dire. So we could over have that for starters

Also BBC Four only broadcasts for so many hours a day. So we could also have the spare capacity there as well for starters.

I am surprised that C4 who will show anything to make a shilling, and C5 and ITV have not come up with this idea by now.

l live in hope.
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If you’d seen my original comment you will have seen I said: “often from men and women of a certain age - not to say exclusively that age group or even a majority of them - I’m not tarring a whole generation with the same brush here!“

However, I did bemoan my mum and stepmum for holding those views and wondered at how it could have happened, given how kickass they were as females when it came to breaking social norms back in the Seventies and Eighties. And noting that it seems to be people in that age group (in their seventies mostly), that I most often come across holding that view. Just because I most often come across it in that age group, does not make it a majority of that age group, as I made clear.

Two different things entirely - sorry if my caveats didn’t make that clear and therefore my words offended you.

I’m glad you had a good night cheering on the Lionesses though and long may it continue!

The penalty conversion rate is usually much higher as this article shows. Not a reason to slag off the women's game, clearly. https://shekicks.net/womens-euro-2025-why-so-many-missed-penalties/

Right, just as football is ‘normal’ for the majors tournaments where home nations are playing? All good then. Laughing at that snooker one though 😳🤣

Cricket hasn't been shown on normal TV for many years.

Snooker and Wimbledon do monster ratings. Plus they are scheduled at the same time of the year each year. No "normal programmes" are disrupted because of it. The snooker and the tennis ARE the "normal programmes" for those weeks.

There have been two threads on this which have run on very similar themes, which seems to be that enjoyment of women's football is dependent on validation from men.

An angry man on a phone-in doesn't like it? Was that all it took to spoil your enjoyment? The other thread was drew anger about a husband didn't want to watch it. So what?

Do people really need male permission to enjoy something?

Hey lets look at this again.
Not a great fan of Women playing traditional Mens so called Sports to be honest.

But it was an important Euro Competition. So did rank right up there fir the Woens team.

Didn't watch the final but l think they did win it. So good for them l

They have done a lot better than the Mens team in the equivalent Euros !!! Ho de ho.

I personally am not, a tennis fan but we all have to endure BBC blanket coverage of Wimbledon on BBC 1 and 2 every year.

Also the dreaded Snooker World Championship. Lets all die of boredom whih seens to go on forever fir weeks each year.

Plus l nearly forgot Test Match Cricket!!!

I rest my case.

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Christ, if you can tell that squirrel is a fella from there, your eyes are a lot better than mine.

Another male who isn’t bothered about women’s football it seems. Probably asleep during the game

Might you Leah herself isn’t exactly struggling in the looks dept, as well as being fit, skilled, captain of her national team… leave something for the rest of us, Leah.

What problems arise?

The problems arise when men and women are spoilt and churlish about the Euros.

Of course she is. LOOK at her. Jesus wept, I bet she’s a lovely person too…

I said it earlier in the thread but Lucy Bronze played with a fracture in her leg the whole Tourno, and they all knew it. If you needed any more proof that women just crack in with it - there it is!
it’s one of the best thing about watching women play, a lot less of the showpony rolling around followed by a miraculous recovery once a free kick or a card has been given. It’s almost like they just want to get on with playing…

I’m enough to remember when ‘simulation’ ie diving was something shameful that the England men’s team treated with distain as a bit of an Italian thing to do… and not how teams wanted to win - better to win with skill and fight than faking.

She's Miss America!

Probably the same kind of dickhead who says “what about straight pride?!”

It is pretty amusing watching some men get irate over women’s football. Their fragile little egos ruined.

Women, so selfish taking up 2 out of 100s of channel available! In other news I’ve just seen Leah Williamson’s girlfriend, god that woman really is leading her best life 🤣

Comparison is the thief of joy. The men's and women's game are completely different in the way they are played. Very much like tennis. One is not better than the other. They are fundamentally dissimilar. The problems arise when people start pontificating that x female would find a home in any men's premier league team. It's just not true.

But he can't escape from it! It's on BOTH of the "main channels", literally being pushed down his throat!

He clearly has mental health issues

They just get on with it. Nowhere near as many displays of gymnastics, rolly pollies and grabbing of limbs with terrible acting skills 😂

Football isn't coming home, it's staying home.

I know the exact phone call you are on about as I heard it too. He was saying 'I can't stand it!'

I just thought don't watch it then you prick.

I saw this too. He's in the minority and a total dickhead!

Bit like the boxing fiasco, with the man winning gold.

I have seen way too many comments on other forums and videos from men saying “yeah but they’re still shit! They lost again 15 year olds” right. Women are built differently, the games are going to be completely different, of course they are! There is a 15 year old playing on the Arsenal men’s team, so in actual fact 15 year old boys have the potential to be playing on par with men’s championship team players. Women are playing other women, who are at the same level they are, just like England men’s team are players men’s team who are on par with them. It worries me how angry I have seen some men get about England winning the women’s Euros!

So I support my local club and since the women’s team got promoted to the WSL a few years ago, and the men’s team started playing regular European football making it more difficult to get tickets for the Men’s games.

For the last few years we have attended 80% of the WSL home games, usually with hospitality tickets, which gives my kids the chance to meet players etc…. including Hannah Hampton (when she played for us).

We still get tickets for the men’s game, mostly cup competitions and the odd premiership game.

To be honest the WSL games have a much better family vibe, and are much more fun to watch!

The last men’s game I went to we scored in the first 10 minutes and just played defensively for the other 85 minutes- it was fairly dull!

The lionesses success is fantastic, and men who have an issue with women’s football have a dreadful case of ‘sour grapes’

I guess they find it emasculating, and I expect they also wine about players ‘taking the knee’ and wearing rainbow armbands whilst wanking off to the photo of Vinny Jones crushing Gaza’s nuts… in the ‘good old days’ when football was just ‘for men’!!!