the lionesses and equality

Aet290204

Aet290204

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Sorry for starting another thread about the lionesses but….

I’ve never watched a WSL game in my life. I watch Boro, my second (local) team are The Posh. Then there’s England. I don’t really want yet another team to spend my money on and make my life miserable at weekends thanks.

I didn’t really watch much of the Euros. I joined the game they won 8-0 about half way through and watched that. I did watch the semi final and final.

I was most pleased to learn Beth Mead was a Teesside University alumni (like me).

But today I finally got it. It’s about the equality. The girls who weren’t allowed to play at school, the women decades ago who were banned from playing, and for me the LGBT representation in the team. Ok, there may be proportionally more gay women than men that play at elite level but so what.

I thought it was a largely awful game to watch. But, who cares. Bigger picture and all that. And we won and it came home. And the celebrations were just joyful. I loved watching the post match interviews.

Peace and love guys. It transcends football.

AET
 
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Aet290204 said:
Sorry for starting another thread about the lionesses but….

I’ve never watched a WSL game in my life. I watch Boro, my second (local) team are The Posh. Then there’s England. I don’t really want yet another team to spend my money on and make my life miserable at weekends thanks.

I didn’t really watch much of the Euros. I joined the game they won 8-0 about half way through and watched that. I did watch the semi final and final.

I was most pleased to learn Beth Mead was a Teesside University alumni (like me).

But today I finally got it. It’s about the equality. The girls who weren’t allowed to play at school, the women decades ago who were banned from playing, and for me the LGBT representation in the team. Ok, there may be proportionally more gay women than men that play at elite level but so what.

I thought it was a largely awful game to watch. But, who cares. Bigger picture and all that. And we won and it came home. And the celebrations were just joyful. I loved watching the post match interviews.

Peace and love guys. It transcends football.

AET
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Superb post. Other than I thought it was a good game to watch ☺
 
Aet290204 said:
Sorry for starting another thread about the lionesses but….

I’ve never watched a WSL game in my life. I watch Boro, my second (local) team are The Posh. Then there’s England. I don’t really want yet another team to spend my money on and make my life miserable at weekends thanks.

I didn’t really watch much of the Euros. I joined the game they won 8-0 about half way through and watched that. I did watch the semi final and final.

I was most pleased to learn Beth Mead was a Teesside University alumni (like me).

But today I finally got it. It’s about the equality. The girls who weren’t allowed to play at school, the women decades ago who were banned from playing, and for me the LGBT representation in the team. Ok, there may be proportionally more gay women than men that play at elite level but so what.

I thought it was a largely awful game to watch. But, who cares. Bigger picture and all that. And we won and it came home. And the celebrations were just joyful. I loved watching the post match interviews.

Peace and love guys. It transcends football.

AET
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As I've said on another thread:

It was also brilliant to see a crowd not boo the opposition, trash the area outside the ground, get absolutely smashed, storm the stadium and create a toxic aggressive atmosphere. Both Gabby Logan and Claire Balding called that out tonight. I hope more of the media do too.
 
Nero said:
As I've said on another thread:

It was also brilliant to see a crowd not boo the opposition, trash the area outside the ground, get absolutely smashed, storm the stadium and create a toxic aggressive atmosphere. Both Gabby Logan and Claire Balding called that out tonight. I hope more of the media do too.
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Thanks for that mate. Just seen there’s another thread going on at the moment about the lionesses displaying all the usual toxic masculinity and misconceptions about woman’s football.

Oh well I tried.

I guess it’s a start.
 
Aet290204 said:
Thanks for that mate. Just seen there’s another thread going on at the moment about the lionesses displaying all the usual toxic masculinity and misconceptions about woman’s football.

Oh well I tried.

I guess it’s a start.
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This will be the start of the biggest change the woman's game has ever seen, sell out crowds everywhere and millions watching on tv, it can only go from strength to strength from here. Really sad that so many are keen to downplay it because it wasnt done by a man though. Sadly just shows how far we still have to go as a society
 
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You’re easily pleased then😂

I honestly couldn’t really get into it until they scored.

They were superb at the ****-housery and breaking the game up at 2-1 up though.
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The shat housery was class i sometimes think we are so naive at the boro. Did you see the notes passed to the German players and the English girls looking over their shoulders at them. class
 
lostinyorkshire said:
The shat housery was class i sometimes think we are so naive at the boro. Did you see the notes passed to the German players and the English girls looking over their shoulders at them. class
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Yes I did!! because my first thought was if it’s written in German how are you gonna know what it means !!

Unless of course, it was a drawing…..
 
Fabiopaim said:
Nonsense. Watching Premier League football is totally different from watching Scottish football, IMHO.
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I’m able to distinguish the levels of football I am watching, so one week I can watch Stockton v Marske and next week Barcelona v Madrid, I understand the standards are different but the competition and desire to win are the same, some people do just enjoy football.
 
I enjoyed the game, any game at any level can be enjoyable to watch if you get invested in the result.

I know of “fans” with the mens game who support a top 6 teams despite living nowhere near the club, and who’ll only watch champions league or premier league games. Even games between lower premier league teams they’ll moan about it not being good enough and “unwatchable”.
 
In terms of entertainment the game wasn't as entertaining as the semi and quarter finals but some of that was down to the way in which the German team set up. It was still an interesting game to watch and the sh*thousery at the end was very amusing (and effective). The game was always competitive and played in a pretty good spirit, exemplified at the end by the England team and squad forming a "Guard of Honour" for the officials and German players as they went up to collect their medals. I don't know if it was planned but it was very good to see. Also the mixing in the crowd and the fact that the German fans stayed to lap of honour.

The men's game should look to their laurels.
 
Agreed, we've all watched Boro through highs and lows and it doesn't make a difference.

Worth noting as well that I've watched many a tedious final in the mens game!
 
newyddion said:
This has been the big shocker for me!!

How? Why? Whaat? I don’t get it? Why would they not let girls play footy? Who are they? Why would they not let them?
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Talking to a Primary School teacher on Saturday who was annoyed by Ian Wright's comments, wondering if he was behind the times. Certainly in our area girls play football in primary schools where there is a lot of mixed sport also. This success will obvious encourage more. But you only needed to see the numbers of school girls and boys at the Arnold Clark international last season at the Riverside to see how big women's football is locally with school kids.
 
newyddion said:
This has been the big shocker for me!!

How? Why? Whaat? I don’t get it? Why would they not let girls play footy? Who are they? Why would they not let them?
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Not something I ever really thought about when I was at school (secondary school, end of the 90s) but looking back now P.E. was split into boys and girls. The boys played football and rugby, the girls played hockey and netball. The majority of girls and boys were probably ok with that but there will have definitely have been some girls that would have preferred to play football and some boys that would've preferred not to. We were never given a choice.

Outside of school there were definitely girls teams because I remember a few people played for them (and went to play for Boro ladies etc) so it wasn't impossible for girls to play football but in school the default was that they didn't and even at a younger age (primary) before the physical differences start I don't remember the girls playing football. P.E was more mixed then so it might have happened but my memory isn't good enough. They definitely didn't play with the boys at playtime but there were some girls on the school team.
 
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