Women's football under Lockdown 2

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Women's football shutdowns: 'It's unfair boys' academies can still play'

...elite protocols under Covid-19 include proper medical supervision, daily temperature checks and being able to manage symptoms and players.
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"If the clubs could do that, they could operate but it's a big challenge for the women's game," she adds.

So, even if you play at the same club, girls are likely to be told to stay home whilst boys continue as normal.^

I do not understand. If you play at for QPR, at QPR, are you not already under QPR's medical supervision? How challenging can it be to take temperatures before every training session. How challenging can it be to isolate and send home any players with symptoms?

The decisions on what sports, recreation and exercise to continue were made by four cabinet ministers. All men and none particularly keen on sport.

Casey Stoney, the manager of the Manchester United women's team, has spoken out about this. Interestingly, this article seems to imply it is the FA's decision rather than the government's. Brighton women have also just issued a statement arguing that their women's academy is just as 'elite' as the men's and so can still operate under the dispensation for elite sport.

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/54833598

Women's football has been harder hit by the pandemic so the gap between the men and women's game will be even greater post covid (assuming we get there) than before.

Discrimination, surely?

If it is the decision of the FA then given their now former chairman and some of his views, sadly not a surprise.

How can it be anything other than direct discrimination on the basis of sex (dressed up as lack of facilities, which in itself is discriminatory in that girls are being treated differently).
Arses.

It's the reasons they give that don't make sense to me.

@Beamur

How can it be anything other than direct discrimination on the basis of sex (dressed up as lack of facilities, which in itself is discriminatory in that girls are being treated differently). Arses.

Yes. It's adding insult to injury, isn't it.