yeah that's BS, I hate it when people say that - she clearly saw the gap and it was a great shot, it doesn't remotely look like a cross, some people just refuse to accept quality when they see itQuote:
Originally Posted by Letters
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yeah that's BS, I hate it when people say that - she clearly saw the gap and it was a great shot, it doesn't remotely look like a cross, some people just refuse to accept quality when they see itQuote:
Originally Posted by Letters
Incorrect :)Quote:
Originally Posted by The Wengerbabies
https://www.theguardian.com/football...-of-year-italy
I don’t especially care for women’s football, I’ve never been able to watch a game for more than twenty minutes (although in fairness I’ve only ever really tried in the last few years, it was more a case of dismissive humorous misogyny to amuse myself before). It doesn’t feel right, and what I mean by that is not that women shouldn’t be playing (obviously a ludicrous statement) or even the lack of technicality and pace but it’s not even those things it’s the lack of height. Goalkeepers im constantly thinking should be doing better with goals but actually no if they are on average 5 or 6 inches shorter and don’t have the arm length than no they probably couldn’t be doing any better. Crosses feel strange as well, rather than something being headed away it often feels like the ball sinks.
After a while it feels like im watching a men’s game whilst either drunk or having suffered a head injury
That and the relative lack of pace and technique makes it less interesting (a bit like how a lower league game is less interesting to me than a premier league game)
It goes without saying that they are all clearly miles better than me or even better than I could ever hope to be. But I’d get thrashed on court easily by Serena Williams, doesn’t mean she wouldn’t massively struggle against any of the top 200 men’s players (is she actually retired now, surely she must be)
I watched extra time and the pels against Sweden, and obviously I hope England retain the European championship (though I think they will struggle against Spain who I think are better than them from what I saw in the World Cup final). I just can’t really motivate myself to watch more than a tiny bit of a match.
Then again surely can’t be any worse than the soul destroying excuse for football put on by the England men’s team last summer
Which is fine.Quote:
Originally Posted by HCZ_Reborn
Personally I feel it has gone a lot better over the last decade and my interest in it has grown with it - that and the fact it has become more mainstream.
I don't like efforts to force it to become regarded as equivalent to the men's game - there are obvious physical reasons why it won't ever be.
But that doesn't mean that it can't be as good to watch and actually both semi-finals I really enjoyed as spectacles.
I get irritated at people pretending the games are equivalent, but I get equally irritated by the fragile masculinity of people who go out of their way to denigrate it (which I don't think you are, for the record).
It does feel similar to the men in that we have somewhat blundered our way through and I fear the outcome will be the same, but we'll see.
You mention tennis. There was a time when the serve-volley game was king that I actually preferred the women's game. The men's game just didn't have many rallies, it got a bit boring. That was an example where men's greater strength actually made it worse as a spectacle.
It is lots better now they've changed the surface.
EDIT: Venus is still going!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/a...s/c4g8nzzze1mo
My girl has just started to play with our local team and she’s really enjoying it, so I’m glad the women’s game has more of a mainstream feel to it now as youngsters should be able to look at the sport as a genuine career path. Leah Williamson is a bit of a local hero where I’m from and she visited last year and it was like Messi or Ronaldo had turned up, was great to see these girls having someone they can relate to and take inspiration from in a way they perhaps couldn’t do in the past.
Yeah I can’t say I watch highlights of past matches involving Pete Sampras or Boris Becker if I’m being honestQuote:
Originally Posted by Letters
Though did watch a documentary about Goran Ivanisevic who at his best had an unplayable serve. But apparently played through most of his 2001 win at Wimbledon in agony with his shoulder and was living off painkillers, repetitive strain injury from his monster serve.
You were most likely to find the most entertaining tennis from late 80s through to early 00s at the French open, Moyà, Brugera and Kuerten were the forerunners to Nadal in the way they played and how hard they hit the ball, but they could never deal with the serve volley style on grass and other surfaces. Just as Sampras, Becker, Edberg etc never really got anywhere at Roland Garros because the surface slowed down their serve and allowed baseline returners to do them with passing shots
Lol no one is trying to denigrate it it's just not very good and the forcing it upon us is just tiresome. Nobody gives a fuk.Quote:
Originally Posted by Letters
Women's sports are generally poor quality, not all but when there is a technical aspect they just suck.
A lot of women's Track and Field events are very watchable, women's pole vaulting may just be the greatest spectator sport in the world. But women's football? Nah it's crap.
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Originally Posted by The Wengerbabies
No, you don't give a fuk. Which is fine, you don't have to, But you are confusing yourself with other people:Quote:
Nobody gives a fuk.
So...youre wrong. That's not an opinion, it's just numbersQuote:
England’s European Championship semi-final win over Italy on Tuesday night delivered ITV’s highest viewing figures of the year.
A peak audience of 10.2 million was watching when Chloe Kelly converted a penalty rebound in the final minutes of extra time to take the Lionesses to their third successive major final.The dramatic semi-final averaged 8 million viewers across the 120 minutes. This was ITV’s highest average audience of the year among adults and in the 16-34 age range.
Yeah a mate of mine's daughter plays in a team and has won competitions. I think that's a big reason to be positive about it all, ok so it's not PL quality (though quite a few PL games are shite anyway tbh) but it's good enough to be entertaining and inspire others to follow in the players' footstepsQuote:
Originally Posted by Marc Overmars
Liverpool lose 4-2 in Hong Kong to AC Milan