England ladies on ITV

[Tricky Trevor]

Away to Sweden, need a point to qualify. 0-0 after 35mins.
A joy to watch after the last month. Progressive passing from back to front. Problem being the front 3 keep making poor choices. Just had first decent effort.

[Hapag Lloyd]

“A joy to watch”
You must be watching a different game to me, it’s shocking.

[bobinho]

The overall standard may well be down compared to the men’s game, but tbf to the OP, he goes on to explain why he thinks it’s a joy to watch. I agree.

[Tricky Trevor]

Well after my OP it’s been all Sweden. HT 0-0

[Hapag Lloyd]

Each to their own I suppose.

[Mark the Claret]

Just treat it as a separate sport, you don't compare mens tennis to womens tennis, or athletics or any other sport, if you try you can enjoy it for what it is.

[Vincent'sCap]

As if we havnt been tortured enough by the blokes for the last 4 weeks,then they unleash this drivel on us

[yTib]

women's footy still doesn't merit the coverage it has.

one day though.

[boatshed bill]

Just treat it as a separate sport, you don't compare mens tennis to womens tennis, or athletics or any other sport, if you try you can enjoy it for what it is.

The thing here is that it's not a separate sport.
Impossible not to make some sort of comparison

[yTib]

i prefer women's tennis to the men's game.

longer rallies and other qualities.

[roperclaret]

The thing here is that it's not a separate sport.
Impossible not to make some sort of comparison

Do you watch the womens 100m Olympic Final and say ‘well that was crap compared to the mens’?

[boatshed bill]

Do you watch the womens 100m Olympic Final and say ‘well that was crap compared to the mens’?

Comparison is not exclusively a negative thing.

[TheFamilyCat]

Do you watch the womens 100m Olympic Final and say ‘well that was crap compared to the mens’?

Comparisons are only made when it's a traditional "men's" sport.

[Burnley1989]

Comparisons are only made when it's a traditional "men's" sport.

Tbf it was a womens sport until they banned them from playing it for donkeys years

[yTib]

Do you watch the womens 100m Olympic Final and say ‘well that was crap compared to the mens’?

i don't.

do i win £5?

would you pay to go and watch an under 16s match up the prairie? that is pretty much the standard.

just because women's footy is far behind the men's game and folk point it out doesn't mean they're misogynistic. well at least i'm not.

[eastcoastclaret]

Tbf it was a womens sport until they banned them from playing it for donkeys years

Indeed it was. Could get crowds of 50K or more in the 1920s, more than the men's game at the time.

[kentonclaret]

Do you watch the womens 100m Olympic Final and say ‘well that was crap compared to the mens’?

No, but mercifully the race doesn’t last for 90+ minutes.

If it did I probably would.

[Ric_C]

Nice cast from the OP

[yTib]

Nice cast from the OP

i doubt he was fishing. are you?

[bfcmik]

No, but mercifully the race doesn’t last for 90+ minutes.

If it did I probably would.

If the ladies 100m final took 90+ minutes I don't think anyone would be making comparisons at all

[bfcmik]

Burnley midfielder, Brenna McPartlan, won her 5th cap for Northern Ireland ladies in a 2-0 win against Bosnia tonight

[wilks_bfc]

Burnley midfielder, Brenna McPartlan, won her 5th cap for Northern Ireland ladies in a 2-0 win against Bosnia tonight

Player of the match as well

They are now in the playoffs for the Euros next year

[dsr]

Indeed it was. Could get crowds of 50K or more in the 1920s, more than the men's game at the time.

Only once. It was for an armed forces charity day on Boxing Day 2020 when there were no men's matches played. There was once another women's game that had a crowd of over 30k as well. But it wasn't the norm.

There were very few women's teams and no league structure, and whether the game would have taken off, we don't know. (Women's cricket didn't, and they had no ban on using men's facilities.)