[Football] Call me old fashioned....

[Official Old Man]

I was among the many who felt that women should only be part of any broadcast team if they knew what they were talking about. Have to say now that the vast majority of females on panels and lead commentators are doing a great job. Maybe it was nerves before but now I'm happy with it.
Getting in an unbiased person is better than a biased Chris Sutton.

 

[A1X]

It's outrageous! People who have not played the game at the very highest level being allowed to pass comment on it!

Will never catch on.

Now, back to the thread about conceding from corners...

 

[BBassic]

I never understand this particular outrage.

"Bloody women thinking they can comment on the kicking of a ball by twenty two men. It's a f**king travesty"

 

[super-seagulls]

These days if you say you're a middle-aged male, you get arrested and thrown in jail.

These days, if you say you're English, they arrest you and throw you in jail.

I’m a middle aged Englishman.

Guess what?

 

[neilbard]

Glad I missed that. We are living through a strange period of over- balancing.

 

[ConfusedGloryHunter]

Yes it is old fashioned to believe that a woman cannot talk twaddle about football as well as a man can. On the other hand congratulate yourself that you too are part of the progress towards a more equal society, after all the previous generation would have been complaining about non white people being allowed to speak.

 

[JBizzle]

Yes it is old fashioned to believe that a woman cannot talk twaddle about football as well as a man can. On the other hand congratulate yourself that you too are part of the progress towards a more equal society, after all the previous generation would have been complaining about non white people being allowed to speak.

I think you'll find that even in this generation people get themselves in a right hissy fit if they see Ian Wright, Micah Richards or Alex Scott on a commentary team.

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

These days, if you say you're English, they arrest you and throw you in jail.

Do they really arrest you and throw you in jail? These days? If you say you're English?

 

[southstandandy]

Imagine the fuss if they'd had an all male panel for a women's game.

They do sometimes as said with the Netball. My wife watches it and never seems to complain.

 

[GT49er]

I didn't see the panel, so I'm firing off a wild guess here, but was every member of the team reasonably easy on the eye? Any grey hair? Thought not.

It's a joke. Male summarisers don't have to be any particular age or even particularly presentable - remember Lawro when he was on the box? But all the women they have on are unfeasibly youthful and good-looking. Don't ugly or even plain women play football?

To be fair to Sky, they have at least one woman reporter/pundit who is anything but easy on the eye.

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

I’m a middle aged Englishman.

Guess what?

At least you have wifi in your cell

 

[RossyG]

I don’t see why Alexander Solzhenitsyn made such a fuss. He sold a load of books and won the Nobel Prize for Literature, didn’t he?

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

Do they really arrest you and throw you in jail? These days? If you say you're English?

Why do you ask ? I’m getting a bit suspicious that you might be English

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

I didn't see the panel, so I'm firing off a wild guess here, but was every member of the team reasonably easy on the eye? Any grey hair? Thought not.

It's a joke. Male summarisers don't have to be any particular age or even particularly presentable - remember Lawro when he was on the box? But all the women they have on are unfeasibly youthful and good-looking. Don't ugly or even plain women play football?

I saw Chelsea manager Emma Hayes on a Sky Sports panel once and she was exceptional, very strong on tactics, as you'd expect from a coach who has won a lot. But she isn't especially striking looks-wise (in my opinion) although perfectly presentable. Funnily enough I've never seen her on any other panels.

 

[Sid in the Sharknado]

Do they really arrest you and throw you in jail? These days? If you say you're English?

If you're lucky, I was shot at dawn this morning.

 

[GT49er]

Pity she wouldn't be with you or any other man for that matter.

You sure?

https://metro.co.uk/2020/09/21/coronation-street-sam-robertson-footballer-alex-scott-13301157/

I know about the stereotype applied to women footballers, but it isn't necessarily all of them.

 

[A1X]

Do they really arrest you and throw you in jail? These days? If you say you're English?

Yeah. These days.

 

[RossyG]

Theses days do you get sacked, your partner gets sacked, and you get the police on your doorstep these days if you say White Lives Matter these days?

Tsk! These days...

 

[Washie]

Hoddle



Brazil



Gascoigne



And that's just off the top of my head.

Absolutely a place for modern players of both sexes in the commentary box but much of modern football is soulless repetition and science to the nth degree. Is there really a Hoddle or Gascoigne playing at the moment? Are Man City better than Brazil 82 (or 70)?

Having not watched football from that era and not have nostalgia goggles or having an emotional connection to that era of football really makes me hate 80s football. I much much prefer todays football as the 80s football just reminds me of league 2.

 

[studio150]

More importantly, was a sufficient percentage of them BAME or LGBT? There are social niceties to be met, you know......and probably targets.

Disgraceful, why are you not including QQIP2SAA along with LGBT.