patrickblue wrote:Harry Dowd scored wrote:Good save keeper, are you watching Eddie
Totally shite penalty kick though. Even Eds might have got to that one.
Eddie save a pen
patrickblue wrote:Harry Dowd scored wrote:Good save keeper, are you watching Eddie
Totally shite penalty kick though. Even Eds might have got to that one.
john@staustell wrote:Not sure this American ref is particularly unbiased
dazby wrote:Spain were fantastic. England were brilliant. It was a great tournament.
Beefymcfc wrote:Lots of talk about parity in pay for the women’s team. Should the men’s game offset the women’s team just so we can show equality or should we see them as separate entities, based on their respective revenues?
Mase wrote:I’ve not watched any matches from this tournament so interested to know what the standard like? I know Wrexham went over and smashed a womens team in the US in pre season. So what would the level be compared to in the men’s game? Below the conference?
Pretty Boy Lee wrote:Beefymcfc wrote:Lots of talk about parity in pay for the women’s team. Should the men’s game offset the women’s team just so we can show equality or should we see them as separate entities, based on their respective revenues?
I’m no expert, but I think at international level we should get close to equal. Let’s face it it’s not coming away from the men, but out of the pockets of billionaires. International money isn’t a drop compared to club wages either.
Club wages are a different matter entirely and I think it would be nice to have a full time minimum but I couldn’t justify equal pay when there’s nothing equal about what the men get. Cole Palmer isn’t going to get what KdB gets is he?
Mase wrote:I’ve not watched any matches from this tournament so interested to know what the standard like? I know Wrexham went over and smashed a womens team in the US in pre season. So what would the level be compared to in the men’s game? Below the conference?
BlueinBosnia wrote:Mase wrote:I’ve not watched any matches from this tournament so interested to know what the standard like? I know Wrexham went over and smashed a womens team in the US in pre season. So what would the level be compared to in the men’s game? Below the conference?
I used to watch women's football semi-regularly when I lived in Bosnia (because there's no alcohol ban in the grounds, unlike the men's game). Players had more time on the ball, and the individual skills on show were better, but players were more prone to panic/cluster. Goalkeepers are shorter, which makes for more 'spectacular' shot-stopping saves (Shay Given springs to mind). The best Bosnian women's team would get smashed by pretty much any men's village team (4th or 5th level on the pyramid), but that's more due to physicality than skill. The football on show was better than the men's second tier (and a decent proportion of first-tier games) for a spectator.
Overall, you can't compare: I'm sure the Harlem Globetrotters would get destroyed by some Lithuanian 2nd division basketball team, but - if I were a basketball fan - I'd rather watch the Harlem Globetrotters perform than some teams I've never heard of from towns I've never heard of.
Pretty Boy Lee wrote:BlueinBosnia wrote:Mase wrote:I’ve not watched any matches from this tournament so interested to know what the standard like? I know Wrexham went over and smashed a womens team in the US in pre season. So what would the level be compared to in the men’s game? Below the conference?
I used to watch women's football semi-regularly when I lived in Bosnia (because there's no alcohol ban in the grounds, unlike the men's game). Players had more time on the ball, and the individual skills on show were better, but players were more prone to panic/cluster. Goalkeepers are shorter, which makes for more 'spectacular' shot-stopping saves (Shay Given springs to mind). The best Bosnian women's team would get smashed by pretty much any men's village team (4th or 5th level on the pyramid), but that's more due to physicality than skill. The football on show was better than the men's second tier (and a decent proportion of first-tier games) for a spectator.
Overall, you can't compare: I'm sure the Harlem Globetrotters would get destroyed by some Lithuanian 2nd division basketball team, but - if I were a basketball fan - I'd rather watch the Harlem Globetrotters perform than some teams I've never heard of from towns I've never heard of.
This is a great post.
Pretty Boy Lee wrote:Beefymcfc wrote:Lots of talk about parity in pay for the women’s team. Should the men’s game offset the women’s team just so we can show equality or should we see them as separate entities, based on their respective revenues?
I’m no expert, but I think at international level we should get close to equal.Let’s face it it’s not coming away from the men, but out of the pockets of billionaires. International money isn’t a drop compared to club wages either.
Club wages are a different matter entirely and I think it would be nice to have a full time minimum but I couldn’t justify equal pay when there’s nothing equal about what the men get. Cole Palmer isn’t going to get what KdB gets is he?
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