Women and football - have your say

Our forum mates are discussing this subject in this thread.
Go have a look and see if you'd like to comment

I went to see a Man City game with a female friend and I am so glad it was only a friend and not a prospective girlfriend. The poor girl nearly hit me as she was thinking I was patronizing her
by explaining what was happenng on the picth and killing her enjoyment of the game

Hahaha I'd hit ya!

I will not seat next to you then at Borehamwood

You'll have to sit on my left then shlj

I'll sit 100 seats from both of you then.

Actually I stand behind Emma's goal anyway

Do you stand there for the view Shlj??

Must do - no action ever takes place there

For the tactical interest , you can see the shape of the team this way.

http://forum.football.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=19947

seen the thread, but havent commented because havent seen the incident,
however Newell just sounds sexist to me, male refs make mistakes too and i dont see him saying much there,
men ref womens games and get decisions wrong but women are not calling for men to be removed from the womens game

pointless ignorant ar*ehole

That's what I wrote in the thread - maybe we should
Kick the male refs out of the women's game! They can't do their job right!
How does that sound, Mr Newell?


Rachel Yankey, who plays for Arsenal Ladies and is widely hailed as England's top striker, hit back at Newell's comments.
'There are bad refs and good refs,' she said.
'It doesn't matter if they're male or female. To be a ref in the Championship you are qualified to that level and it shouldn't matter if you're male or female, black or white. I agree the quality of refs needs to be stepped up, but that's across the board.'

QPR defender Marcus Bignot, who used to manage Birmingham City Ladies, also attacked Newell for his remarks. Newell believed his team should have been given a penalty when Carlos Edwards tangled with Bignot, but Bignot insisted Rayner and referee Andy D'Urso had made the right decision.
Bignot said: 'Comments like those will stop female officials from trying to make their way in the game.
'Amy Rayner is a role model. What would he have said if it had been a male referee making that decision?'

Would like to see the incident might have a look around on youtube. Haven't commented don't know if i will, basically everything has been said. His comments are absurd blatently obvious, we're all human, let's make mistakes!

Think u explained it all to them on the forum Agent Smith, shame they still don't get it and resort to their derogatory comments about women again
I'd comment but it would probably be slated for being sexist towards men!
It was nice to see a few men treating us equal though, an improvement on the past at least

I hope you'll have a look at what I said on the main forum.

God - there are some sexist morons around.
Unfortunately, some are admins / mods

Very sad indeed

Was listening to the radio earlier today and he apologised to Amy Raynor, can't remember what else he said as I was only half listening, trying to talk on the phone at the same time!

If I was Amy, I wouldn't accept his apology, stupid tw*t! He knew damn well what he was saying

Yeah, he said his piece and realised it would create a big fuss so he's been advised to chuck in an apology for good measure.

Stupid tw*t indeed.

Only just realised it would create a fuss eeerrr...numpty! Aaawww he had to be advised, can't think for himself, they obviously didn't advise him what to say after the game!