Women euro championship 2022

[Col_McCafferty]

Winning a glamorous big summer tournament when no other football is on is one thing, proof will be when the WSL starts and will these new fans attend their matches?

I was happy they won yesterday but I'm far more interested in how Spurs do in a run of the mill league fixture against Southampton this coming Saturday.

Who knows? Maybe in ten or twenty years time women's football will be bigger in this country than men's.

 

[r-u-s-x]

Interesting. Are the girls training in a less accessible place than the boys? The mens game IS diverse and from memory boys’ academies and development centres in London are zones 3-6. It doesn’t seem to stop them.

I can see the effect of less money and fewer players. Basically there are fewer opportunities to play girls’ soccer and so you need social capital and parents with time, money and resources to make it practical. That being said I don’t see a significant different between England and France and yet France’s team is the model of diversity. Different cultures around sport I guess.

Time to invest in grassroots football for girls in England. Perfect time.

No but socially loads of boys play football regardless of those facilities. The money in the game also acts as a magnet as well as the social thing.

There's 10s of thousands of clubs playing Saturday and Sunday football all over the country, that's not the case in the woman's game.

 

[mummy]

True story; I used to work with a geezer called Carrie that looked just like 'fat bloke' from Harry Enfield.

It's a small world, isn't it? Did he Support Spurs in those days, or is it a more recent thing?

 

[NorseYid]

I’m not a bricklayer

Spoiler

I’m a prick slayer

W

 

[mummy]

W

Could you be more specific?

 

[mummy]

Y

A?

 

[Airfixx]

A?

WYA?

 

[Dr Rocktopus]

To be honest, I'm more interested in this 'prick slayer' claim by CarrieFi . Fair gets you thinking, doesn't it?

I assumed it was Little Finger's nemesis in Game of Thrones.

 

[LeParisien]

German media cry foul over alleged handball by England women’s team

Tabloids claim outcome of Wembley final is fraudulent and complain about referees’ decision not to penalise victors

www.theguardian.com

Missed this in real time but it does look like a handball. Does it come off her chest first?

Sissoko esque

 

[Mick Cooper]

Come on. 'Carrie' is a good name for a bricklayer.

Carrie Hoddle?


Damn, too slow.

 

[N17-Tommo]

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.

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.

 

[Sean]

Was it not in the diary before the EC win?



Absolutely insane to be able to pull it all together so quickly if not.

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.