Women euro championship 2022

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N17-Tommo said:
The exposure is fine and rightly so. The pay comparison is being much discussed but just not realistic or possible.

If the day did come when they can fill a stadium with full price tickets and were responsible for a million shirt sales then of course they should earn the same. Until then it has to remain realistic.
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Anyone discussing pay parity is doing it for clicks and exposure. Nothing more nothing less.

Nobody involved in football would even give it the time of day as a discussion point.
The pay gap between top level mens football in England and top level mens football in Scotland is a reflection of that.

The only reason the men earn what they do is TV money. Take that away most clubs are running at a loss.
 
N17-Tommo said:
The exposure is fine and rightly so. The pay comparison is being much discussed but just not realistic or possible.

If the day did come when they can fill a stadium with full price tickets and were responsible for a million shirt sales then of course they should earn the same. Until then it has to remain realistic.
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Yep agree completely.

Of course the pay cannot be the same - not until the women's game starts regularly pulling in the same kind of money as the mens plus same kind of viewing figures, attendances etc.

What can and most likely will happen now, at least in the short term, is greater exposure for the sport - I'd be very surprised if there wasn't an increase in sponsorship, advertising etc - some of these women will probably start pulling in more lucrative individual commercial deals, and so forth. Wouldn't be at all surprised to see some of them on adverts on tv, billboards etc etc.

Hopefully the WSL can capitalise on and help with this increased exposure.
 
cretinousgoat said:
Yep agree completely.

Of course the pay cannot be the same - not until the women's game starts regularly pulling in the same kind of money as the mens plus same kind of viewing figures, attendances etc.

What can and most likely will happen now, at least in the short term, is greater exposure for the sport - I'd be very surprised if there wasn't an increase in sponsorship, advertising etc - some of these women will probably start pulling in more lucrative individual commercial deals, and so forth. Wouldn't be at all surprised to see some of them on adverts on tv, billboards etc etc.

Hopefully the WSL can capitalise on and help with this increased exposure.
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Absolutely.

They have done themselves and their sport no harm what so ever.
As you said, they will get some good contracts and sponsorship deals based on the attention this has received.
 
Airfixx said:
Was it not in the diary before the EC win?



Absolutely insane to be able to pull it all together so quickly if not.
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Don't think it was as they could still have a play off game for the world cup if they don't get the right results in games coming up.
 
Sean said:
Don't think it was as they could still have a play off game for the world cup if they don't get the right results in games coming up.
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Since heard that it was provisionally arranged.... Still isn't 100% confirmed due to the aforementioned WC games.
 

Original Lioness: 'It would be nice to have an FA cap'​

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A woman who played in the first official women's international football match in England says it "would be nice" to have an FA cap.

As the Lionesses have been celebrating their Euro 2022 triumph, the original England Ladies have been reflecting on their experiences more than 40 years ago.

Pat Firth, who scored a hat-trick in an 8-0 victory over Scotland at Manor Park in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, in 1973, said the current team "did the whole country proud".

The side in 1973 received handmade caps, she said, made by Flo Bilton from the Women's FA, and have an ongoing campaign to be recognised with an official cap.
 
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