Womens football....leading headline BBC news....why? Cos very few people actually care

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Let's be honest. The BBC feels the need to have this as a major headline for woke reasons. The reality is few people give a shit....

So uninterested you took the time to post about it, make that make sense…🙄😩😅

As an aside your attitude reeks of misogyny and sexism, must be a real catch…and I’m sure the viewing figures, ticket sales and shirt orders will speak for themselves 🙌

That’s fine if football isn’t your thing, or even this specific team, no one is forcing you and go watch something else, but let’s be clear, as representatives of their country in a sport that is a huge part of our culture generally speaking they have just as much a place and right to be just as present on television, media, news etc. as men. If it would be shown, reported on or whatever else for a men’s team so should it be for the women’s.

Over 17 million people watched the 2022 final. 90 000 people were in the stadium. In 2025 11 million people watched the quarter finals. But nobody cares.

Don't peope know how to turn off thir tv? News have quite a lot of shit i Don't give a fuck about.

Yabu

@Radioundermypillow Many more people attend men’s football. So obviously most support their club and don’t find it boring. As men do have greater skills and speed it’s more appealing to me. Definitely Prem league is better than WSL. Gets far more ticket sales. However people can watch what they like and when “England” or “Team GB” is playing, that’s quite another level of national involvement.

What's it like being an absolute bell end?

DS (15) started his football supporting with men only. Since the last Euros, he now looks out for both the male and female teams at his club because it's become so much easier to follow the women. He was so passionately into this tournament that he had to leave the room at several points during the knock out stages because he couldn't cope with the tension. And as others have said, I suspect most of my road knew what was happening tonight by the level of shouting from our house. This isn't a female vs male thing - young men are genuinely getting interested in women's sport, I don't see how anyone can see that as a negative.

There are some sports which I would argue have been closer to equal for a while (tennis, athletics etc.). Others (especially football and rugby) are a long way from that, just look at average earnings. But if the increased media coverage helps get even slightly closer to parity, how is that a bad thing?

Not football, but we're going to see some of the women's rugby world cup games later this summer. That was not even on our radar a few years ago. So how can the media coverage possibly be negative if it's raising the profile of women's sport?

It’s another goady thread with one OP post. MNHQ, please start doing something about these.

Oh OP how ignorant and pitiful you’ve made yourself look. I’d be checking the viewing figures before spouting such utter drivel.

Im Scottish and much more into rugby than football, my DH not much interest in normal footie either, but we both watched it as it’s a pretty historical moment, going back to back winners in Euros.

You can try as much as you like to diminish the achievements of women, and we will keep doing amazing stuff, just to piss you off.

TL; DR

Piss off, let us have this

We have precious little to celebrate atm, we deserve to have something to be positive about

Lots of people who are anti woke watch football and like England to actually win. Yabu.

Do you talk bollocks every day or is today just special?

I don’t even like football but I think it is worthy of a new headline.

Exactly this, it's got nothing to do with woke. My litmus test is as you say " what would the media coverage be like if it was the men's team winning the Euros?"

Now I get what that some men and women are not interested in football, but the reality is that there are many many more that are interested in football which is why it has made the headlines.

Considering the coverage the men’s teams get at major tournaments, this is justified just for a day. There is little joy in the world or in the UK most of the time the rest of the year. I don’t even like or follow football, but a few bbc news headlines doesn’t hurt anyone. It’ll soon be back to the proper news within a day.

Sounds like it…

or just mortally offended by women in general? 🤷‍♂️

shame we’re here to stay, isn’t it?

I’m Scottish and don’t care about football usually, but I’ve loved watching these women. I’m delighted for them, England should be so proud of them!

Everything I don't like is woke!!!?!1!

I have to say at my daughter's school netball is more popular than football for girls and get international netball (or hockey for that matter) gets no coverage. Sports that girls have traditionally played in my opinion deserve the acclaim football gets.

A lot of the interest is artificial in my opinion having seen the lionesses where tickets were 'sold' for as little as £2.50 with many being given our free to grass roots football clubs, schools etc.

Schools are now being pressured into having as many girls football clubs as boys with no extra resources and at my daughter's school the female pe teachers are being berated for not hosting games as they don't know the rules.

This is not to demean women or women footballers but only to state a lot of the interest of women s football is media driven out of a well meaning feminist agenda which I don't think in reality serves women well.

The vast salaries and interest in men's football is economically driven with huge amount for television rights, sponsorship and gate 'receipts and is at a vastly different level in terms of organisation. Men's football teams support the WSL to a large extent and certainly you can't put forward an economic argument why women footballers should be paid the same as men as some may want.

There seems to be a middle class media agenda to push women s football with editorial staff feeling coverage has to equate to the men's game which is understandable from a gender equality perspective but is misguided in that the public interest is artificial in that it is the public flowing the media and not the other way round as in the men's gmae.

In modern society obviously sport is the last bastion of male dominance in terms of particpation, skill level and salary/funding and whilst this may seem utterly at odds in terms of modern gender equality (e.g. formula 1) is it wise to have an agenda where you are in a way imposing on the public equivalence of men's and women's sport?

This is not to denigrate the Lionesses in any way who deserve their victory or lesson the excitement of their supporters but only to question the wisdom of a knife of social engineering with sport that should be a product of organic economic growth and true public interest.

Right ready to be flamed.....:)

If it hadn’t been covered on ITV or BBC I doubt many would have sought it out elsewhere , but it has been covered and therefore is now head line news.
Great achievement by the women’s team.

https://netball.sport/events-and-results/netball-world-cup/

Let's we the BBC dedicate huge amounts of attention to this please. Just because netball is a 'girls' sport doesn't mean it deserves less media coverage than the inflated leviathon of the linonesses. There are other women s team sports available......

I'm not interested in football whether it's the women's game or the men's game but am not arrogant enough to mistake my personal preferences for a national sentiment.

Viewing figures suggest that a lot of people are interested. It's no longer niche or something that only women and girls watch.

I'm a primary school teacher and towards the end of term, I heard a group of boys coming into school. They were talking about the match the previous evening and were very excited that the Lionesses had won.

An English football team winning a major international competition seems like a cause for celebration to me, and why wouldn’t it be?

I’m not English or into football but this is still a major achievement. The Lionesses are fantastic role models and anything that can inspire young people, particularly young women, to join a team, stay fit, and enjoy an active lifestyle should be celebrated.

The coverage by the major media organisations has been well done and funded but I still think it is somehow an artificial interest given the interest shown to different sports in my daughter's typical school.a lot of the sporty girls play netball and hockey and football is something of a niche interest. There are loads of local netball teams with games being played regularly at a lot of local leisure centres but football not so mcuh.

I think this is at odds with massive media coverage the lionesses have enjoyed and so I am a little cynical about how the bandwagon for this started. I think women s football is a good thing but I think it maybe a little patronising for the media to elevate women s football to a level that doesn't reflect current grass roots interest. I just believe sport should grow organically and not be part of an agenda as people see through this.

There is and will continue to be a disconnect between men's and women's sport economically and in terms of popularity and it just seems to me that some are sport to be virtously the last big trunk of male dominance that needs to be hewed and our women s footballers have been one of their axes.

See if you are able to explain what you think the “woke reasons” are. I guarantee you can’t because you’re talking utter rubbish.

Surely all women s sport should be celebrated though? As I said previously traditional girl's sports have been the real relative losers in this and I think that's a little unfair. There is some interest in womens footballers but if there was a truly high interest the money would follow and we would see £400 000 pounds a week wsl players.

I think the likenesses deserve their win but we do have to question how women s football out of all the sports available reached such dominance.