Football Focus

[DJKillaQueen]

My only issue with men's tennis is that I'm bored with the Nadal/ Federer thing. Maybe women's tennis is more interesting because it's no longer dominated by any one player.

Sorry....completely off topic I know :)

[Undisputedtruth]

DJKillaQueen Wrote:

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> Speed aside, there is now as much skill in women's

> footie as the mens.

Women's game is much slower and so given much more time to control a ball and to pass. Give someone some time and space, they would look good. Reduce space and time and that same player will struggle.

> The other key difference is

> that female footballers don't writhe around in

> agony every time they are tackled, and make the

> men look like wimps in that respect.

That's what I thought until I saw the Columbia and North Korea game. Some of the North Korean women were writhing all over the place.

[DJKillaQueen]

It's a valid point in some respects, regarding speed and technique but the best male teams can play possession football too, because they give themselves time on the ball. That's what we in the UK don't seem to get. The kick and rush of the Premier League does not make it the best league in the world....not technically anyway. The Premiership ego is as deluded as many of the players it fields imo. And there's no doubting the skill of Karen Carney for example, who can be surrounded by three defenders, and still wriggle the ball through them......THAT is exciting to watch.

What I would counter is the idea that some players look good only because they have time on the ball. It irritates me that these women at the top of the game are not given the credit they should be for their level of skill, skill that is as good as many of the best male footballers. And if you watch the women's game between the best teams in the world, you'll see that the players have not as much time on the ball as you might think. Female footballers will close down attacking players as quickly as possible just like their male conterparts. The principles of the game are the same whoever is playing.

Yep I happily conceed that North Korea are the exception to the drama rule lol......didn't they have some badminton women disqualified for not playing fair too? :D

[Alan Medic]

Oh well, I'm no expert on the female game. I just thought it was like whichever was best at parking a car wins type of thing.

[DJKillaQueen]

LOL Alan........

[ianr]

I know little about football, but I enjoyed watching the French women's team a few days ago. Fast, intelligent, combinational play, from what I remember.

[DJKillaQueen]

France were my outside tip at last years ladies world cup but they never really got started. They do have talent though, and I think the next world cup is when they'll come into their own.

[Alan Medic]

What ianr really means is legs, looks and boobs(and the imagination of their accents). Possibly hair too. Don't ya ian?

[DJKillaQueen]

LOL...... I can strangely identify with that.... ;D

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

"Oh well, I'm no expert on the female game. I just thought it was like whichever was best at parking a car wins type of thing"

That would be James Barber's wife. Does that mean women's football wins?

[maxxi]

ianr just liked looking at them in their combinationals.

[Alan Medic]

It's a competition PGC. Whoever scores the most goals wins. I don't know Mrs.Barber. Is she a footballer or a driving instructor?

[DJKillaQueen]

I see Mr Barber as a bit of an own goal type of player so Mrs Barber wouldn't necessarily have to score to win a game of footy against him.

[red devil]

Jack Butland has looked very good so far in the Olympics, him and Hart are clearly the future for England between the sticks. I expect he will be snapped up by a Premier League team before the transfer window closes.

I prefer watching the more fluid system Pearce has employed with Team GB than Hodgson's rigid 4-4-2...watch and learn Roy

[Parkdrive]

red devil Wrote:

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> Jack Butland has looked very good so far in the

> Olympics, him and Hart are clearly the future for

> England between the sticks. I expect he will be

> snapped up by a Premier League team before the

> transfer window closes.

> I prefer watching the more fluid system Pearce has

> employed with Team GB than Hodgson's rigid

> 4-4-2...watch and learn Roy

But ignore the penalty taking technique Roy.

[SCSB79]

Well over 40,000 at Ibrox to see Rangers tonight. Fantastic attendance.

[Mick Mac]

I hope you pay tax on the gate receipts. (For PGC, that was just a personal jibe at SCBC)

Edited to SCSB. He has changed his name but same old, same old. :o

[SCSB79]

You do realize its a well known fact that Celtic cooked the books in the 70's and 80's with regards to their attendances to deliberately avoid tax?

In fact, the BBC commentator even mentioned it on tonight's broadcast.

[Mick Mac]

There were only actuallly 10000 at Ibrox last night but Rangers are now cooking the attendance books to try to give some tax back.

[SCSB79]

This look like 10,000?!

48,000 for flag day was pretty disappointing for you lot... all out buying school uniforms apparently?!

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Whisht, both of you!

Let's talk about sensible football things: what did we think of David Beckham's pants on the White Cliffs of Dover?

[maxxi]

Edited to remove duplicate (I must have confused the software with Enmgland's position)

[maxxi]

Now that the new season is fast approaching I'm a little concerned at the lack of transfer activity down at the Boleyn. The Carroll fantasy having been shattered we're looking thin. A tense, nervy season beckons if Gold & Sullivan don't spend.

On a lighter note - more FIFA-type hilarity with England now ranked 3rd best team in the world.

[Otta]

Liverpool haven't done that much either, other than losing players, and announcing that Agger could go for the right price!

[red devil]

Looks like we're going to end up with dodgy knees Rip Van Persie.

I can't believe no one has been signing Bilbao players....C'mon Fergie, still time to sign Muniain