When Germany won the women's euros in 1989 the dfb gifted the players coffee sets. I visited the dfb museum a couple years ago and the first thing I remember are those stupid plates and the absurdity in contrast to the glamorous men's trophies. It's insane to think this wasn't in the 50s or so, but just a few years before I was born. Seeing all the recent progress makes me incredibly happy. Great video Alfie

@Irelandforever609

Жыл бұрын

Ya when a under 15 boys team beats a professional elite woman team you start to understand why woman football is not as good as men's Would you mother outrun your father would she do more pull ups but you seem to think woman football is catching up it's only catching up because of the woke feminist culture

@Stephen_Platt

Жыл бұрын

That’s not actually as outrageous as it sounds. The men’s game paid similar wages to normal jobs even in the 1980s, at least in England. Given the money the women’s game would’ve made at the time it was probably a reasonable gift. Sure there’s an unfair difference in revenue, but it’s genuinely not as big as it seems.

@DevoGaming93

11 ай бұрын

@@Stephen_Platt no the revenue difference is massive and deservedly so. Much more has been invested into the men's game and will always be a bigger draw.

@Stephen_Platt

11 ай бұрын

@@DevoGaming93 Whether the women deserve to be so far behind is up for debate. They did literally get banned from playing the sport for 50 years. I prefer men’s football but let’s not pretend like the women didn’t get shafted.

@briancohenthepfjmassive.4769

11 ай бұрын

They got awarded something that they should have been doing anyway. Women make the tea and sandwiches while men sit in their armchairs watching the footy and shouting at the referee.

Well done for bringing attention to this. An absolutely disgraceful scandal.

I renew my petition for you to include international subtitles for your videos, so as to improve viewership and spread your more than valid and important points and messages to non-English speakers. I volunteer for Spanish, but just having the subtitles would be fantastic for me and my football loving, non-English speaking family.

@ostatnifajek128

Жыл бұрын

I volunteer for Polish ✋ We still have a lot to do here when it comes to the acceptance of women's football.

@MattheuCross

11 ай бұрын

I volunteer for Slovenian, for the 2 viewers from here 😅. Even italian, but some italian person could do it better probably 😉

Dear Alfie, I remember last year during the Women's Euros, a popular Bottom G clip was being circulated by my friends who follow him saying "Women don't watch women's football hence they don't generate as much money as men's football, which is only watched by men" and I attempted debunking that nonsensical claim by bringing up attendance records created by women's football, only to see my friends double down on what their master said. Its insane that despite of certain countries being carried by women's teams in football like US, they still have to deal with rhetoric like this. As for ur hypothetical about if men's football being banned, that's already happening in India as ironically, a woman, who is not even a footballer, named PT Usha, who is a legendary athlete is literally out there recommending to the Indian government to not let the Indian football team take part in the upcoming Asian Games. As someone who wants to see my country play in the FIFA World Cup someday, this does not help. We just beat Kuwait to win the SAFF Championship and unfortunately this is how footballers get rewarded. The kind of disdain you described in this video stills exists regarding football in India, be it men's or women's.

@azieldaly2965

Жыл бұрын

How much people watch on tv?

@oldskoolmusicnostalgia

11 ай бұрын

You're talking about stadium attendances which generate a fraction of the income and audience compared to TV audiences.

@Cottocandokeebs

11 ай бұрын

It is sad how PT usha who inspired a generation of young women to get into track and field, has now just become a danger to women's sports. Even though the Indian women's team has a player who plays for a competitive European club.

@amanshukla6122

11 ай бұрын

@@Cottocandokeebs Yeah. Luckily India are now gonna take part in Football for the Asian Games

@Cottocandokeebs

11 ай бұрын

@@amanshukla6122 yess really looking forward to that!!

Alfie I think you should start a history channel. I would love to see it.

@DB-uf6md

Жыл бұрын

History channel in rhe vein of the recent cleopatra show perhaps.

@Lythgoemania

Жыл бұрын

Ditto

This is literally the best video you've ever done, genuinely well done. I had no idea about any of this

One of your best videos. I thought I knew about the women's football ban, but there was so much that I learned from this.

@deleoduneye

11 ай бұрын

Me to

Imagine how far women's football would be if it wasn't slowed down by all of that stuff mid last century. Just in the last 20 years alone it's grown a huge amount and players are getting far better.

@amarevanhook7453

Жыл бұрын

Rest of the world closing in on the US

@Not_Sal

Жыл бұрын

@@amarevanhook7453which comes down to the fact that other countries are only now starting to care about women’s foot and are finally investing in it.

@augustusfreeman4032

Жыл бұрын

​@@Not_SalI think he meant that European countries are closing in on US.

@Not_Sal

Жыл бұрын

@@augustusfreeman4032 yeah and I’m providing the reason why

@FlamingWalrus317

Жыл бұрын

I said pretty much what you said on a Tifo video about the bans and man people were toxic in the replies lol

In honour of the England U21s winning the Euros, can you do a "Where are they now" video for the England starting XI at the 2009 Euro U21s final? There's a fascinating mix of future England superstars, players who never quite made the full England team, and players I've genuinely never heard of.

@matthiasw8777

Жыл бұрын

So many Sunderland players

I can't wait for the next generation of womens footballers. I think (more) equal opportunity will lead to a better standard of football and hype

In Canada, despite our Women's team being solely responsible for dragging the sport into the imelight, we still got a professional Men's league before a Women's

@Stephen_Platt

11 ай бұрын

Canada has a professional men’s football league? Only ever known of Toronto and Vancouver in the MLS

@graventhered

11 ай бұрын

@@Stephen_Platt Canadian Premier League There are provincial leagues as well

@bundesautobahn7

11 ай бұрын

@@Stephen_Platt What about CF Montréal? So you have Toronto FC, CF Montréal, and Vancouver Whitecaps FC.

@Dexter037S4

11 ай бұрын

Soccer doesn't really have the funding to support two leagues in Canada, when the CPL starts making more money, eventually we will have one, probably as early as 2025 if the MLS teams get onboard.

@duncandisorderly9445

10 ай бұрын

The way the union treats the Canadian women’s rugby team is similarly disgusting. Sophie DeGoode led the ladies to the World Cup semis, the men’s team hasn’t won a match at the WC since 2011. Yet somehow the women still had to crowdfund their own injury rehab and flights to NZ.

Alfie any chance of a documentary on the Ireland women’s team. They’re playing at their first World Cup just 6 years after going on strike because they had to get changed in airport toilets and share tracksuits with the youth teams. It’s an incredible rise

@michaelwilliams2231

11 ай бұрын

Was going to comment the same thing. COGIG

Well done. I'd long wondered why England's women's game had lagged behind USWNT and others on the global stage. I don't know whether it is encouraging or not that so many of the countries you mentioned having banned the women's game have gone on to become real powers, including world cup winners. It's great to see the progress, but hard not to wonder where the game could be

@moffattron9000

Жыл бұрын

The US has alway had a major advantage from Title IX requiring US Universities to fund women's sports to be allowed to have their big College Football teams. In fact, it's become such an advantage that these US Universities have become a major talent factory for Women's Football globally.

@oldskoolmusicnostalgia

11 ай бұрын

​@@moffattron9000That's it, there's this unique feature of American women's "soccer" which Europeans cannot easily replicate. So they are trying to play catch-up all the while. Some like England have made real progress. But more often we've seen teams that used to be good become very ordinary: China, Norway, Sweden, more recently the Netherlands. They struggle to remain at a good level.

@franohmsford7548

11 ай бұрын

@@Pepepepesjdje English players and managers are outnumbered in the Premier League by foreign stars and up and coming managers from the likes of Portugal and France. The way things are going they soon will be in the Championship too - English players and managers aren't getting the chances and it's a miracle we have such a strong English squad right now.....the problem is that the French and Portuguese squads are clearly stronger and the Brazilian, Argentinian, Belgian, Dutch squads are just as strong whilst you can never rule out Italy or Germany even with both going through their own troubles right now and Croatia are still overperforming even with most of their golden generation aging or outright retired. Southgate is an overcautious manager and that's ok if you want England to get into the later rounds of the World Cup and Euros more regularly but it's not going to win us those titles. The problem is that there's no pipeline of English managers to follow Southgate - Hopefully Eddie Howe will be the next England manager but if he does well at Newcastle why would he leave?

@anthonyjames2021

11 ай бұрын

Just to clarify though women were not banned from playing football as this clip claims, the FA banned them from using FA grounds and pitches which forced the women to set up totally amateur leagues and use pitches outside the FA control in the 1930s Preston ladies were still playing in front of crowds of 5k - being in regional amateur leagues is what held back the development of the game and it was the FA's fault but they were not banned from playing. Also it is of note that over half the females registered as footballers in clubs and colleges throughout the world are in North America as professional development of the game began in the USA and spread out to the rest of the world.

Very important video, a shame it generated so little views

The USWNT rise starts with the Title IX act that mandated equal treatment of boys and girls for all schools that accepted federal money. This corresponded with the rise of soccer as a youth sport in the suburbs. The women that grew up playing sports would have been like 20 when the 1991 WWC occurred. This would be the Mia Hamm generation. Coaching was crap, but the athletic ability was top notch. Also, track and field/the IOC banned women running the Marathon at the Olympics until 1984 as they thought women couldn't run that far. The same was true for the 800 meter run prior to 1928.

@michaelwalker7400

11 ай бұрын

They also set up the women for failure in an earlier Olympics by having them run at the hottest part of the day and using the fact several women passed out after finishing the race to say women were too delicate.

Thanks a lot Alfie for making this video and raising the awareness.

Wow there are some disgusting comments that sound like they are straight from the 1920's ....sheesh

Interestingly, I'm currently reading volume 1 of 'Association Football and the Men Who Made It', written in 1905...yes, that is literally the book's title, and the title of the other three books in the same series. I'm about 80 pages in now, I'd say a third of the way through the book, and the co-authors haven't made a single mention of women's football, the 10,000-plus crowds it attracted by that point in time...or women in any way whatsoever, now I think of it. (On a slight tangent, a video on the origins of association football in the world of the old-boy toffs, and the way the game as we know it was nurtured in Scotland before being brought to England and professionalism with it, I think would do pretty well!)

One of your best videos mate, I had no idea about any of it

ive met Carol Thomas, england womens former longest serving captain and iirc youngest captian, and worked a little with her when i did some voluntary work with hull city ladies, her story is pretty amazing. if you're interested in that i'd definitely recommend you taking look at it, may be worth some kind of video as an extension to this one since you did somewhat gloss over the tournaments she was apart of (70's tournaments)

This was fantastically made. Thank you!

I’ve learned to appreciate and try my best to keep up with women’s football. Mostly for my sister, she’s loved and played soccer at a good level, I noticed that there’s always a dismay and disgruntlement of women/girls playing soccer. I’m glad to the growth and respect that’s rising for women sports!

@guyjackson1261

11 ай бұрын

Nobody is dismayed or disgruntled, just not interested in it. Not all sports have a big fanbase.

@jolly9130

11 ай бұрын

@@guyjackson1261 there is not only dismay or disgruntlement against womens football but full on hatred

@guyjackson1261

11 ай бұрын

@@jolly9130 Lol, you honestly believe that? nobody "hates" womens football dude, they may make jokes about it or be totally apathetic towards it(like me) but not hate.

@merseydave1

10 ай бұрын

The World Name, for The World Game is FOOTBALL ... Fact!.

@merseydave1

10 ай бұрын

@@G-Host3_6 F.I.F.A. meaning = F. federation I. international F. FOOTBALL A. association as The World Name for The World Game is FOOTBALL ...Fact!.

Great video as always Alfie ❤

One thing I've hated so much is how whenever there's anything relating Women's football,there's always men who go "No One Cares haha" etc. Maybe.But Maybe. It's only *YOU* who doesn't care.

@crystalracing4794

Жыл бұрын

But they cared enough to comment. Same with F1 😅😂😂😂

@Dan-oo8kg

Жыл бұрын

So it's the same guy everytime ? I think a lot of people don't mind the women's game , but the fact the t.v. stations tell us it's as good as the men's and the women saying they deserve the same money as the men is ridiculous, that's why a lot of people slag it off all the time

@Not_Sal

Жыл бұрын

@@Dan-oo8kgwho said women’s football is as good as men’s? Show me who said that

@chrisslater9514

Жыл бұрын

it’s even worse for the wnba honestly it’s disturbing

@Dan-oo8kg

Жыл бұрын

@@Not_Sal loads of idiots say it . The guy who lives next door says it all the time , he's a wet wipe tbf

Incredibly informative video. Thanks mate

Excellent vid. I was unaware of so much of this.

A good documentary Alfie. Well covered. I know I do not agree with everything you post mate but we are civil & respectful people who can disagree at times. Thank you again 👍🏼

Great video, Alfie! Hoping to see a great WWC!

La France va ramener la coupe à la maison 🎶🎤🌟 Banter aside between French and English, I'm happy to see the progresses of popularity of women's football. I started to watch it during the 2011 World Cup. I don't watch it as often as the men's game but I like it. For those who say that a boy's U-15 team beat the USWNT, it's not really shocking. The women's record in 100m is 10,49 seconds while for men, it's 9,53sec. It shows that expectations shouldn't be the same. Therefore, I can understand the lack of interest but not the insults. So, I hope the TV ratings will be higher than the previous world cup despite the time difference.

@Irelandforever609

11 ай бұрын

Why are trans woman who can have miscarriage play with woman if o wait we are all equal in the eyes of the woke brigade

Great video, really interesting (not to mention depressing but unsurprising)

Thanks for the informative video

Most importantly, how does Haiti manage to have any kind of team entering any kind of world competition?

@bababababababa6124

Жыл бұрын

The same way Ukraine, Syria or Sudan do despite being in the middle of conflict. Haiti isn’t even in a conflict, they’re just poor. So they actually have it easier than the other countries I mentioned

@soundscape26

Жыл бұрын

@@bababababababa6124 It's barely a functioning country so having a fully operational women's team capable of making it to the World Cup is quite surprising.

@glennb6020

Жыл бұрын

@@soundscape26 most live in France

@Dan-oo8kg

Жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same .

@bababababababa6124

Жыл бұрын

@@soundscape26 true I suppose. But I’m assuming most Haitian international players live abroad in the DR, US and France and train in those countries instead of at home.

Have been waiting for you to do a video on this topic for a while. I started going to watch women's football about 7 years ago with my dad and can see how much bigger it has become in that time.

Another excellent and fascinating video Alfie, can't wait for the Lionesses to bring it home again

@briancohenthepfjmassive.4769

Жыл бұрын

It's not being played in England !!! So how can it be brought home?

@freddiejohnson6137

Жыл бұрын

​@@briancohenthepfjmassive.4769it refers to bringing the trophy home

@ezraezra2928

Жыл бұрын

@@briancohenthepfjmassive.4769 English football commonly use this term to indicate that winning a major trophies means they will return the glorious achievements back to where the football was born. Whether the tournament was staged in England or not, letting the national team won any silverwares, either mens or womens, is such the biggest achievement for any countries.

@deleoduneye

11 ай бұрын

Wouldn't it be so embarrassing to the establishment and FA if the Lionesses do the double, something their male counterparts have NEVER done.😂

@ezraezra2928

11 ай бұрын

@@deleoduneye This is going to be the joke word 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Well detailed Alfie. Can we please have a video about Maltese? Thank you ⚽

Dear Alfie, please make the full length documentary on Corrine Diacre that you floated a few months ago

2:21 did he mean to say WW1 and not WW2 here?

@carltonleboss

Жыл бұрын

Yes

Very interesting documentary as usual.

I love this video and I also love that misogynists can't handle it lol

ayo thank you so much for covering this. it makes people so fucking angry lol

Alfie can we have a video on the archaic practice of a 3 o'clock kick off and its origins?

Just a correction on why US women's football is so good. It isn't due to the women's game not being banned but has to do with a US law called Title IX. It forced universities that receive US federal funding, virtually all of them to varying degrees, to offer the same number of sports opportunities for women as men.

Excelkent video alfie!

Thoroughly brilliant vlog

Great video

I'm amazed by that medical journal being concerned about women's reproductive organs being damaged by playing football given what women's bodies go through during childbirth.

@petesmart1983

11 ай бұрын

Any excuse to stop them going out and staying them as housewifes

Incredible video

Better doc than sky would release and this is what they could be doing ng 👍great stuff.

Request #28 - another great video. I do hope you can make another great one soon, about the seven international players who currently play in the lowest leagues of English football, such as Anguilla international Chris Morgan, currently playing in Chalvey Sports in the 11th division on the pyramid. There's many more, though he's the lowest I found. And if the video gets loads of views, you could even do the same for the women internationals playing in lower English teams. Anguilla international La Brisca Gumbs in the women's game currently plays for Slough Town Ladies, though the Ladies Vanarama Conference League South actually isn't that low down. So do the men's one first as it'll be a lot easier to research. :-) I did find though Kiara Woodley, playing for the British Virgin Islands Women's Team, who is playing for Holland FC Ladies in the Women's Suffolk League, though at step 7 this is at a team much more senior than Chalvey Sports in the men's.

Ah, good old England, pontificating to the world about gender equality while adhering themselves to such backward ideas! I watched a few games in this year's WWC as well as many in 2019. One thing that annoys me all the while is how biased the refs are against teams from Africa and the Caribbean. It's worse than in the men's game.

@petesmart1983

11 ай бұрын

Biggest problem in those days as soon as the war was over they were expected to be house wife's and raise children. So after all there hard work during the war they just expected to go back to being 2nd class citizens, same after ww2 too. Wasn't to the late 50s young women started rebelling and started working, getting education etc

Alfie you know the Afghan women still play here in Melbourne under Melbourne Victory FC in red kits

Thank you for using your channel and following to highlight such an important story and issue. It’s vile to see how much hate women and the women’s game continues to be subjected to by gammons and incels alike.

Wow that was a depressing but important listen - I hope we can have a more uplifting video on the rebirth of women's football post world cup!

Can't be bothered watching the whole thing. But, when I was a kid, the FA used to say that women's bodies were not made for football. 2023, women moaning and blaming men for ACL injuries.

@ethandalton6480

11 ай бұрын

*blaming a lack of research and correct kit for ACL injuries

Respect women

As an American I really feel Europe as a whole could have dominated here had the bans never gone into effect. England and Germany likely would have had the most trophies in some alternate timeline.

@chl0e1977

11 ай бұрын

Brazil would be so much better without the ban also.

@gbalph4

11 ай бұрын

@@chl0e1977 yep it would be the current men’s soccer/football order but with women

Bro why does this only have 22k views

Real ones learnt about this from Horrible Histories

Spain and England being in the final is a testament to how within just 20 odd years the womens game has grown tremendously

You should do a video about the incredible rise of Bodo/Glimt. From what I can tell, they used to be a bang average yo-yo club. Jumping between Norway’s first and second devision. But now they’re one of Norway’s most feared teams, scoring goals for fun and shattering records. They also always seem to be able to replace the players they sell. Would be an interesting video, I think

I am once again asking for a video about Algeria's unofficial FLN national team (1958-1962)

Britain switched to decimal currency the same year women were allowed to play football

2:24 the final in 1918 when WW2 was going on? I'm confused does he mean world war 1 or 1939-45?

Great stuff! Please look at the rise and fall of the likes of Fulham, Birmingham City, and Everton. Those three clubs used to be decent sides between the 2000s (Fulham) and the early 2010s (Everton and Birmingham City), but have fallen from grace over the years, with neither of them looking to repeat their successes.

@michaelwalker7400

11 ай бұрын

Doncaster Rovers as well. They were basically kicked out of the WSL to make room for Manchester City.

@Ese96Agoaye

11 ай бұрын

@@michaelwalker7400 Newer fans of womens football need to learn about the sports before the advent of the WSL (1990s and 200s). All they know is what happened from 2015 to present.

@jack8988

11 ай бұрын

Birmingham have new owners and will be back in the prem in a few years

Dick Kerr's brother Wayne was also a manager

@GrahamMilkdrop

Жыл бұрын

I thought the ref was Wayne Kerr

It’s really, really odd that we didn’t get to see an image of Harry Maguire in his speedos or something of when he was on that beach in Greece. That lack of consistency in the behaviour towards male and female athletes surely is obvious enough for those with eyes to see and to question what the flip is going on! I didn’t know they used a beach pic of Alessio Russo, that’s so random and also belittling…

There is definitely room for both men's and women's football just as in other sports.

2:24 I think you mean world war 1 😂

1:03 I find it rather interesting how they have also managed to come up with the female Sven-Göran Eriksson

Didn’t realize that WW2 took place in May 1918

Day (lost count): The despicable despot president of Bangladesh Football Federation

It's coming home.

I love the National Women’s Soccer League in the USA. It’s the most queer (and especially dear to my heart trans) friendly sports league in the USA

Apologies for being a party pooper or if I am being a tad pedantic, but it’s disingenuous to purport that women "were banned from playing football." That’s to imply that the FA had governmental jurisdiction to do such as brazen action. Instead, women were banned from playing at FA-affiliated grounds and stadiums. Some would argue that this was tantamount to a de-facto ban, but that would not have prevented an entrepreneur from setting up their own separate league and grounds to cater to women. For comparison in America, African-Americans were banned from playing Major League baseball. As a result of the ban, they set -up their own separate, fully independent ‘Negro League baseball, which whilst never reaching the heights of Major League Baseball, was still popular and celebrated in its own right…

Dick Her Ladies are owed an apology.

Women’s game beenn growing like crazy recently

@petesmart1983

11 ай бұрын

Yep first in America/canada and in more open country's like Scandinavia which led to Western European countries and east Asian countries

Hopefully this video doesn't try to erase the fact that Jose Leondro Andrade was the most famous footballer in the 1920s to prop up the Dick Kerr Ladies.

6:00 lol well yea if you created the first ever men's team between a random bunch of volunteers it would also be worse than Sunday League so he probably was right but lacking context as too why.

Dick Kerr. What a name

I could imagine Women's football also being banned during the reign of the Austrian Wunderteam :X 😇✌.

The problem with women's football is that it can't compete the way that the men's game is sold in that it is the best of the best from all over the world playing for a plastic team like Chelsea or Man City. The US under 14s team is better than the senior women's team by a large margin. The only way for women's football to go is to be what made the men's game great in the first place, and that is being a local side that is integral to the community.

@petesmart1983

11 ай бұрын

It can it's already more popular than championship in terms of attendance and TV rights. Yes it can't compete with premier League but then again pl formation has destroyed men's football around the world and dominates. Why Spain and Italy outside the few big teams are full of empty stadiums and no money

@charliemilroy6497

11 ай бұрын

@petesmart1983 you'd have to prove that women's football is more popular than the championship and the TV rights are more expensive

@ethandalton6480

11 ай бұрын

Why would you think the US u14s team is better than any team of professional adults, and please don't reference a practice session that nobody with any knowledge of football could remotely think was a proper match

"unqualified referees would have to take charge of their games instead" and nothing has changed 😌

Alfie, I love the political angle of your videos and the football analysis as well but I'd love to see some love towards an incredible women's footballer who nobody knows but is the greatest scorer of all time. Please do a video on Krystyna Freda.

I think 1918 might have been while WW I was still going on, right Alfie?

Who’s the favourites to win the World Cup

@bababababababa6124

Жыл бұрын

USA obviously, they’ve won the last 2 or 3 WC

@ezraezra2928

Жыл бұрын

I want USA vs England in Final, despite having a lot of issues. But USA will still win.

@ThreeRunHomer

Жыл бұрын

More teams than ever are legitimate contenders: Australia, USA, Spain, England, Germany, Brazil, Canada, Netherlands

@amarevanhook7453

Жыл бұрын

US sweeping obviously

Ik you probably meant WW1, but WW2 wasn’t in 1918 2:20

Are Daily Mail editors incels? That headline image should be considered crime.

Great video! The Women's Game has come a long way in the last 20 years and it is nice to see. The next conversation to be had is why do people become so upset about the money these players make compared to the profits of their organizations/leagues? It's just a simple fact that men's sports are much more popular, even amongst women and it shows with the lucrative TV deals and sponsorships. The Women's Game will never come close to the pageantry and history of the men's game and that just is what it is. What makes me laugh is it feels like people are "forcing" others to watch/support the women's game just because someone on the Internet said to- which makes me not want to support it.

@chesterdonnelly1212

11 ай бұрын

No one should be forced to watch women's football. That is outrageous.

@DevoGaming93

11 ай бұрын

@@chesterdonnelly1212 Agreed. I support it in every way, maybe not the current USA Women who seem to care more about politics, making statements, and whatever else over just football.

@chesterdonnelly1212

11 ай бұрын

@@DevoGaming93 the USA women's team are horrible. I must admit I don't watch much women's football but I do wish them well and I'm happy for the men's game to subsidize the women's game as long as the women are humble and grateful, which the American women are not.

@DevoGaming93

11 ай бұрын

@@chesterdonnelly1212 to me the most disgusting act is Rapinoe campaigning for men to play with the women. Is nothing sacred anymore?

@chesterdonnelly1212

11 ай бұрын

@@DevoGaming93 that whole thing makes no sense to me. I know it's popular with liberals in North America. Thankfully people are against it in Britain. The current government is mostly against it. But if we have a change of government we could get the same thing here. Common sense is winning but the war is not over.

So the whole argument hinges on the men's game having to support the women's game. You'd have to imagine that women's football would be bigger in England if the men's game supported it, but it's telling that men's game came from nothing and yet still became successful. Whether you want to call it sexist or unenlightened, or whatever, it is clear that women's football was not a big enough draw to be successful enough to overcome hurdles and become popular in its own its own right. Obviously society was different then, but I'd argue that the fact that the FA ban stuck suggests that there wasn't great demand for women's football.

@petesmart1983

11 ай бұрын

There was massive demand for it but In reality women were 2nd class citizens, who weren't allowed a real education, Weren't allowed to work, vote. Basically just there to be housewifes and look after Children.

Hiya Alfie, In the last 2 years I've got more into the women's games, even the players I Recognise just as much as men's football, I'm glad Amanda Stavely goes to Newcastle Women's games and Newcastle got promoted last season to division 3, this is Choppy in Whitehaven, Cumbria, England

I am very fortunate to say "I knew the hidden history of Female Football" overall you have given a comprehensive overview of the history, reosons and implacations of the sexist ban from 1921 to 71 ... However you made one mistake ... The Women's Football Association DID NOT sanction a Womens football team for those unofficial World Cup finals in the early 1970s ..... they Banned the players and manager ... go and research on that point again! Overall Very Good.

What intrigues me is that the big numbers showing up 100 years ago revealed that the FA were cynical, but perhaps not cynical enough to try and grow, absolve and further develop the women's game for commercial gain. Sexism is a powerful drug

I’d love to know what non Australians and New Zealanders think of us getting a chance to host a World Cup

It makes you wonder what legitimate persuits are banned in different countries today. Women being educated in Afghanistan?

Women's "soccer's" success in the US is based on the law that colleges have to spend the same amount of money on men's and women's sports. And as the women don't have "football" teams, the money goes into the "soccer" teams.

1918…WWII? I think you meant WW I.

I would say Foootball Coming Home to the convicts of England but Sam Kerr got injured so rip

@briancohenthepfjmassive.4769

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No games are being played in England!!! So how can it be brought home?

@david3224

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You do know Sam Kerr isn't Enhlish? Or did I misunderstand you?

@NoCluYT

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Ahh yes, Sam Kerr the English woman...

@KFR

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@@briancohenthepfjmassive.4769 because much of Australia’s population are descended from convicts in England that got sent away on ships to Australia

@KFR

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@@david3224 because much of Australia’s population are descended from convicts in England that got sent away on ships to Australia

Yay, Lang Park!

Reason: Mens pettiness

Day 60 Dream OFC XI all the OFC teams played as one nation in international Football not giving up on this