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ian
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So, The all singing and dancing headline on the BBC football page depicts Arsenal Ladies Beat Chelsea Ladies in the cup final.

 

 

There is a full colour picture with Traditional kiss for the " FA Cup".

 

A little further down the same page is a reference to Barcelano beating Real to a end of season dramatic league title.

 

still Further down, but sharing space with the Womens FA Cup, are references to the league one play offss, league 2 , and championship play offs. Alongside this is reference to Edinburgh City reaching Scottish league 2, having beaten stirling in front of 1,286.

...scroll further and alongside some significant international football, and political articles is another huge photo of the scorer of the goal to win the Womens FA cup.

Now, clearly I am a strong Libertarian and the BBC has always had a charter to support wider society and uphold the arts and minority interest and I absolutely applaud that and recognise it is needed to keep society sane and keenly thoughtful...so, why do I feel so empty and frustrated and numb, even when I consider the new breed of hippies, the "social justice warrior", I cannot for a moment imagine how the BBC has got to a point where such obvious and blatant disregard for what once was (and still is) the peoples game is swallowed by ridiculous and intellectually redundant philosophy that sees the working class yet again undermined and men in general relegated to a point where a falsehood is propagandised.

 

Id be interested to hear responses to this:

Let the Women have their own website on the BBC, or link. Its not just the FA cup, we have had to endure constant references to the women's premier league too. 

whats wrong with this?

Im making a mountain out of a molehill!

white male privilege?

I think once again the world of equality is being conflated with tradition, enjoyment and true heartfelt love.

The fascist libertarians (I am a libertarian but not a fascist one) want to destroy all passion and unique spaces that we as men have. Its not enough to have their own. They dont want their own. They just want yours.

 

 



-- Edited by ian on Sunday 15th of May 2016 12:54:17 AM

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I don't think it's a sophisticated exercise in social engineering Ian. It's just that BBC Sport's coverage of live events has been pushed to the margins of mainstream sport and they have been left with World Indoor Bowls, The London Marathon, the crap version of the World Darts and the Women's FA Cup Final as their only headliners. They are as much trying to cover their own blushes as anything by pretending that the women's cup final was more significant than it was. Women's football is a growing force though, there is no doubt about it. 35,000 turned up at Wembley to watch it, so something is going on. Only a few years ago they played their final at The Keepmoat Stadium.

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Room for both surely Ian. I was down at Wembley yesterday to watch the game with the girls team I run. Good game, great family atmosphere and a cracking goal to win it. 33,000 fans for the game and growing year on year - that can't be bad for the game as a whole can it? We don't say the same things about tennis or athletics and we hold Venus Williams and Jes Ennis is very high regard and why? Because in these sports the women's event has the same coverage and status as the men's. Those who have daughters who love sport will understand.

Love football, grow the game.

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I agree. I do like watching it and I do 100% support all sports for all people.

Im just a little worried. Im worried that the Authoritarians will infiltrate womens football and turn it into a them or us equality issue. I was being a little controversial just to try and draw some attention to the wider issues.

I think we had the issue of cheer leaders going on strike last year in the US and issues about equal pay and coverage for women in many sports and areas of life regardless of current trends or impact. Its a thorny issue and positive discrimination is helpful in some areas. However, I worry about sport as much as some other areas being usurped by very loud and aggressive PR exercises and Political correctness gone wild, such as we are seeing increasingly on university campus and in work places everywhere.

Im not concerned about Womens football as as above I really enjoy watching it. What concerns me a little is when and how it may be used as a vehicle to conflate issues in mens football.

We have all seater stadiums
We have often over the top police methids
we have chants and language that are under attack
we have strict segregation
we have language bans on phrase such as "man up".

I perhaps am watching and reading too much about the so called liberal agenda which is probably more correctly a fascist agenda.

Maybe I am worrying too much.

All power to Womens footall and sport. I love Ronda rousey and holm and tate and cyborg, but the feminists are already putting pressure on this most physical and obvious of sports...just a worry of mine.


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Women's football is crap.

 

 

 

 



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I don't like watching women's football, I think the standards are poor and very much inferior to the men's game - technically. I'm not against women in sport of any type but positive discrimination of their game just makes it worse with the over hyping of a poor quality product.

I also think the BBC has nowhere to go versus the Murdoch money machine on sports and hence we have live FA Cup matches between Bramblewick Rangers vs Sleepy Town that are talked up by the over excited hosts; they wet themselves when they got to televise Salford and the "class of 92" - in fact there were more televised shots of Scholes, Butt, Neville etc. than the actual game.







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which woould be sorted if the governement acted like they do in germany and stopped pay per view

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I think you have to take women's football for what it is. I can watch it and appreciate it in the same way that I can watch and appreciate an under 16s youth team game, or a Sunday League game on Herringthorpe. I don't have to compare it to the top level men's professional game to have an appreciation of it and even enjoy watching it.

Should it get the headline coverage it gets on the BBC? No.

Do I mind them showing the cup final and England games? No.

Is it a good thing that more and more women and girls are being encouraged to play and follow the game? Of course it is.

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Agree with the last bit, let's have more of them playing and supporting - just don't have to televise it.

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