Luton Wimbledon

Has anybody on here ever actually said/posted that ?.

 

As I said, Woodrow brought on to change the game

 

Well done

 

All that defender had to do was duck and let the keeper catch it. Poor communication obviously intimidated by Cauley’s presence

 

Its because Switzerland women lost 7-1 to Luzern under 15s boys a short while ago. A few years ago the USA womens team lost 5-2 to under 15 boys.

What people often fail to mention, is its just a kick about really. A friendly. It gets mentioned every time the Lionesses do even remotely well.

Why grown adults think to mention it at every opportunity instead of just applauding and being joyous at our countries ladies doing well, is beyond me. They trot out the same rhetoric all the time.

I dont know why the comparisons every time. We dont do it for tennis or boxing. Why football?

 

Cos it gets a virtual pat on the back from the Barton mindset knuckledraggers and the It's Only Banter Brigade

 

Because, every time our ladies team has success, instead of enjoying that success and celebrating with them, other people have to compare them to the men’s team, make outlandish suggestions that players in the team would be successful in the premier league against men, and so on.

I was delighted they won the tournament. Real grit shown. Especially as they, let’s be honest, weren’t actually that ‘good’. They got through a lot of games they didn’t play all that well in. Sign of a good team that - and the sign of great coaching too.

When they won it three years ago, they, in my view, were a better team footballing wise - this time they had fight, spirit, didn’t give up, and used game changing substitutes to their advantage. Marvellous stuff.

But when people say Chloe Kelly would get in any premier league team outside the top six; when the reality is that physiological differences she can do nothing about due to basic human biology dictate that she’d be a lamb to the slaughter, people roll out the fact that every time a top women’s team have played an u15 boys side (Switzerland this year, recently both the US and Australian teams had similar results), they weren’t only beaten, they were trounced. You may see this as an attack - it isn’t to me. It’s just highlighting the issue with some of the views held.

Chloe Kelly can’t get in her club or national team - but is a great substitute to have to run at a tiring defence. I loved watching Michelle Agyemang; an old fashioned number nine, came on the shake things up - very successfully.

But put both in men’s football - Kelly would be routinely tackled into the stand, she wouldn’t have the pace or power to live with a men’s professional full back. Agyemang’s game is all about pace, power, disruption - she’d have none of that facing up to six foot plus hairy arsed centre backs.

It doesn’t diminish their achievement to hold the view that they wouldn’t have any success in the professional mens game.

The women have had more success than the men, they deserve to be applauded for that and hopefully the game continues to grow, more girls come into the game at a younger age, the money increases in terms of their salaries and for funding lower down the pyramid. Use the success to grow the sport for the next generation of girls who want to be the next Hannah Hampton or Lucy Bronze.

Don’t make daft suggestions about what they’d do in the men’s game though. Someone online somewhere said that Lauren James is the best player in the whole of football, male or female. Truthfully she’s not even the best player her mam has given birth to.

In tennis, when it was suggested to Serena Williams that she’d hold her own in the men’s game when she was in her prime, she laughed it off and said she’d lose in straight sets without winning a game - and barely winning a point. That diesnt weaken the argument that she’s one of the best of all time, male or female.

Boxing is never mentioned as suggesting a man go into a fight with a woman would rightly be nipped in the bud very quickly . Even at the same weight that would be dangerous. Look at the furore over Imane Khalif - and she isn’t actually a born male, though is likely medically intersex - but people went mad over her competing in the Olympics. Also Caster Semenya in athletics. These aren’t men - they have genetic issues from birth, beyond their control, giving them some male characteristics. But they are deemed to have an unfair advantage.

Wilfully pitching women against men in such a physical sport would be pointless and actually quite dangerous. It is profoundly unfair on the girls who have had so much success to even make that comparison, as opposed to just celebrating them for what they are - two time European champions and World Cup runners up in successive tournaments. Unprecedented - brilliant. I just wish my daughters had shown more interest in it!