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....

I can’t stand football but I can still see how this is a massive thing and something to celebrate!

great to have something positive on the news for a change

I don’t even like football and I watched it. Are you an unhappy person generally OP?

What a goady and probably Daily Mail paid for OP

It IS a big deal

Thousands and thousands of people are into Women's soccer

I'm not a soccer aficionado but the last 45 minutes of that match were electric. I listened on Radio 5. Bloody amazing commentary

Another thing we have to face is that England are one the driving nations (if not the driving nation) for women s football so there is no surprise that we win stuff. If the US win an international basketball completion of American football completion there is no surprise.....

I’m not that fussed about football but we watched it and I’m super pleased for them.

And this is why the word "woke" and people who use it have become a ridiculous parody of themselves. It's not "woke" to celebrate sporting history being made. Might I suggest something for you red-faced blood pressure problem OP?

Hardly 'woke' when the BBC won't actually say what a woman is and they prioritise transwomen over females. There must be a transwoman on the team for the BBC to ever give women the time of day.

When you say "very few" people care, OP, do you perhaps mean "nobody in my tiny bubble of a social circle of small minded men" ?

OP, the womens’ game has gone leaps and bounds. Girls are walking past my house every day heading for the playing fields carrying footballs.

You say most people don’t give a shit. What is your source?

No further posts from the OP. Well colour me amazed…

I have come to enjoy football quite late in life (the last 20 years) and watch both men & women playing. Last night's achievement was amazing and should be celebrated. The momentum around the women's game is fantastic and an inspiration to little girls all over the country. It is certainly newsworthy, not least because of the contrast with the men's team who have not yet managed to win a major trophy once, let alone twice in a row

Are you Joey Barton Op?

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The momentum might be great but it leads to a headache for schools who Are accused of sexism of they can't lay on the same level of playing provision as for the boys (the same goes for rugby and cricket). You have girls demanding games of football but no boys wanting to play netball or hockey (or volleyball to an extent). I don't know who's you resolve this and leads to school sports being portrayed as sexist when in fact they are resource constrained (for knows pe is the first subject to be cut when the financial axe looms).

OP is probably an angry man pissed off that the women are actually winning tournaments they enter!

We have to consider though that women s football is still essentially an amateur game and there are relatively few true professional players in that can be fully supported by a footballers salary. We then have the massive disparity with wages in the men's game which must be the greatest gender inequality in salary ever.

The success of the likenesses although great does mask this 'reality and I think you have a lot of fair weather support for the women s game where someone jumps on the euro bandwagon yet haven't a clue which teams constitute the wsl and certainly no haven't attended many gamss. I think this heaps unrealistic expectations on women players as the global internet in the national game surpasses the monetary aspect of the sport (you could argue the same with gold or f1).

I love football, both men's and women's and was delighted to see England win last night as was my DP! It's not 'woke' to report on our team's success - in fact it's wonderful to see some good news for a change instead of more moaning about Starmer and co.

Morning

Ds’s school didn’t really do much in the way of major sport, all the footballing, rugby-playing and cricketing children I know played in local clubs.

You seem to feel so strongly about this that you've spent the past 2 hours ranting, since the early wee hours @mids2019

Chicken and egg.

Enjoying the papers this morning? I wouldn't switch the news on if I were you.

Will I see you at the open top bus parade?

I'm not even English and I'm interested.

DH was sneakily watching on his phone at dinner so he's interested.

This post makes me cringe for the OP.

The women's game has something special that the men's doesn't have. It might be less technical and less physically powerful, but there is a humanity behind it that is actually really beautiful. Long may it last.

The OP better stay home, the Lionesses are everywhere

Love the headlines today. Fab.