Mumsnet, did the FA ever get back to you about kicking sexism out of football or did they just ignore you because what silly little women think doesn't matter?

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Just interested...

Interested.

Shameless bump since I am deafened by the roar of silence which is the usual coverage of women's sport.

Hello.

It was actually the Premiership we wrote to, not the FA.

And they did indeed ignore us we have yet to hear back.

LOL. Sorry about that, I thought it was the FA.

So are you going to chase them?

Or just accept the fact that the premiership doesn't give a flying fuck what the mothers who buy the sports kit and fund the TV packages on which their silly games are broadcast, think about their appalling woman-hating culture and their steadfast refusal to acknowledge the problem, much less tackle it?

We'll try to find out for you.

Hello,

It was actually the PFA we we wrote to (not the Premiership) (or the FA) (or the Secretary-General of NATO)

It was about Ched Evans being included in their Team of the Year - and as Helen says, they never got back to us. Because that was a fairly specific and time-limited issue, a follow-up is probably a bit pointless now - but if there's a groundswell of opinion that we should consider doing something about sexism in sport/coverage of women's sport, that might be something we could have a look at? (No promises in the short term though - lots of campaign activity coming up between now and Christmas.)

Thanks
MNHQ

Thanks Rowan

There has been lots of discussion, the wake of the Olympics etc., and the sheer rapeyness of the image of men's football, about a campaign to "Kick sexism out of football". Of course the football authorities at the moment would probably not be remotely interested in such a campaign, presumably because they're a bunch of sexist creeps who don't mind that their sport is seen in some quarters as being inhabited by rapey neanderthals, but they might be made to be interested by the groundswell of interest in women's sport following the Olympics.

Now might actually be the best time to catch their attention, before things return to normal.

I noticed that the BBC actually reported the results of an England women's football game the other day. That would not have happened even 6 months ago.