Simon Morgan
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It's different in the dressing room though. Footballers are hardly the most enlightened group of people on the planet and I for one cannot see a female manager for a very long time.
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Women Managers
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It's different in the dressing room though. Footballers are hardly the most enlightened group of people on the planet and I for one cannot see a female manager for a very long time.
Tricky Dicky
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But it only takes one to change a mind-set and it quickly becomes acceptable, even to brainless footballers - especially if they're winning gmes. If that one happens to be awful, of course it could set this back a number of years. I don't think it's imminent though.
Simon Morgan
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Just because they're stupid it doesn't mean they will suddenly accept a complete reverse of one of the most endemic features of the game. Being a football manager has always, rightly or wrongly, been viewed as a job for a man. Always.
Tricky Dicky
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Can't argue with history, but that doesn't mean it will stay that way at all - things change. As I say, not imminent, but not impossible.
Kuipers Supporters Club
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Why not? Men manage women football teams?
middletoenail
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Because more men play football and the talent pool in football management consists mainly of men. You pick your best candidate and in most cases that will always be a man.
Anyway, why the clamour to have a female manager? How many men manage international or top class netball teams, surely not many?
Kuipers Supporters Club
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I would suggest however that the bias in looking towards men has overshadowed the talent that some women may have in management, if there was equally opportunity for women to try, and then fail (or succeed) then fair enough. But just because of someone's sex they surely can't be denied a job as traditionally men are better at it.
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Piss off! Bad enough we had a female lino in the MEN'S game!
Could women managers handle the sick that big fat Sam and Nigel smuggy bollocks Adkins take? I think not!
Could women managers handle the sick that big fat Sam and Nigel smuggy bollocks Adkins take? I think not!
Tricky Dicky
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Why ? Ms Massey has proved to have made some very good decisions, so far.
That sound rather sexist. I don't see why not. As a bloke, I doubt I could take the crap some of them get, but I bet a lot of women could.
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Leave the men's game to the MEN!
Does anyone?
A lino job is much easier. How many refs and linos have been sacked this season? Compare that to the number of managers sacked. Not only does a manager have to be good, they have to have the respect of the dressing room, and when one of the players is disgruntled (doesn't like the tactics, gets dropped etc) and they bitch about the manager, you need the other players to ignore them, not join in. Slagging off a female manager that's never been there (women's football doesn't count) would be too easy.
I agree that the way forward would be for talented women to become assistants, and if one was good enough they could then become a manager.
Tricky Dicky
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I wasn't comparing jobs, merely highlighting a role that has traditionally been a male domain. I don't see it being much different to having female managers in any job, in any company. I'm not advocating it, just saying I don't see why it can't happen sometime.
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public school boy
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Problem one. Women don't understand the off side rule!
Problem two. Give a woman any power, then it's trouble!
Problem three. Women going into men's changing rooms, we know what would happen if the roles were reversed!
Problem two. Give a woman any power, then it's trouble!
Problem three. Women going into men's changing rooms, we know what would happen if the roles were reversed!
guster
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I think there will be a female player in the premiership (if allowed by the powers that be) long before a female manager in it.
Maybe if clubs/players/fans need to be convinced it could work what better way than Hope Powell for England!!
Maybe if clubs/players/fans need to be convinced it could work what better way than Hope Powell for England!!
Super Steve Earle
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I had a woman manager at my work. Evil, bitchy, psychopathic, bad tempered cow and that was on a good day!
Ninja Elephant
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4x05Z3MSkQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg_lPJ8hHP0
Men are nothing like that.
BHAFC_Pandapops
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in all honesty? I wouldn't mind. Because if the likes of Steve Evans and Wenger whinge about trivial things, said manageress would use her female wisdom and shut them up, for good!
From someone who has played football at a decent level, managed teams, reffed games, running the bloody line every sunday for god knows how many years! football is a mans world and will never have a place for women as top flight managers, assistant managers or coaches, not because they are not capable of it just because thats the way its been for 150 years!
And maybe thats not so much of a bad thing! id love to be more involved with football than i have been before but its just something you kind of except in womans football! - I remember my old football coach saying to me "you aint ever going to see a man advertising tampax" in response to me asking if she ever thought about coaching pro football. Make of that what you will!
And maybe thats not so much of a bad thing! id love to be more involved with football than i have been before but its just something you kind of except in womans football! - I remember my old football coach saying to me "you aint ever going to see a man advertising tampax" in response to me asking if she ever thought about coaching pro football. Make of that what you will!