Fab article by Julie Burchill re Lionesses, women's footballing history & misogyny

[TheGodS]

www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-11070651/The-Lionesses-glorious-bold-femininity-truly-iconic-writes-JULIE-BURCHILL.html

@puffyisgood
Perhaps we were wrong. This graphic from Lionesses' Twitter shows that the players are pretty evenly distributed around the country. With the exception of the southwest.
mobile.twitter.com/Lionesses/status/1537382019453288450

Laughing a lot at “The Guardian - chief mourner at every wedding “ .
Great article.

Ah I missed this! Yes 😂

Sure, but London isn't just another area, it contains about a fifth of England's population... compare that spread with the men's team - of the squad for its most recent game, fully 10 players [James, Guehi, Tomori, Gallagher, Rice, Mount, Kane, Saka, Sterling, Abraham], the majority black or of mixed ancestry grew up/played youth football in and around London:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England_national_football_team#Current_squad

The media coverage of this has overall been very good. I was reminded of Jill Scott's nickname of 'Crouchie', on account of her lean physique and 5'11" height being something of a female equivalent of ex-England men's player Peter Crouch's spindly 6'7" frame. A useful reminder of just what an asset (trans) male height would be in the women's game. You just know that there's a section of the commentariat that's a little annoyed by the lack of trans representation on this team, possibly exacerbated by so many of the players being lesbian buttresses of the hated 'cotton ceiling'.

I loved the article and aside from all the uplifting stuff, appreciated the description of Frankie Boyle as 'barely human'.

Great article. Thanks.

That's the Daily Mail for you.