Stupid and insulting article in Daily Mail (again)

[Jah Lush]

As opposed to male sportswomen. Now that would be something. Oh hang on Caster Semenya?

[Huguenot]

Fart in my Whitbread?

[Alan Medic]

I watched the women's WC and it is inferior. Call me ignorant if you like but it's the truth.

[Otta]

Agreed.

The women are very good, but it's just not as physical or exciting.

[Annette Curtain]

Otta Wrote:

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> Agreed.

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> The women are very good, but it's just not as

> physical or exciting.

OK

How about women's beach volley ball versus the mens game.

Excited now ?

NETTE:))

[Otta]

I genuinely prefer women's tennis to mens, and not because of the skirts. I think it's more entertaining, without the big power serves. Although saying that, the women's game has become more and more about power in recent years, which is a shame.

That is why Hingis, who was an amazing player, couldn't really compete a few years ago when she made her come back. Her game wasn't based on power, like that of the Williams sisters.

[ibilly99]

The Daily Mail almost in it's entirety resembles a troll - don't feed it.

http://www.wineoftheweek.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/daily_mail_ted.jpg

[DJKillaQueen]

Finally someone makes a sensible point. Otta is right about women and tennis and the impact of the power game. Hingis was the last serve and volley grass champion but the power baseline game has chanbged that and the advent of the williams sisters has had a major impact on the marketability of female tennis.

H we'll have to agree to disagree. (He fa had let womens league and club football evolve for a good ten years before they acted. If you read press articles from the time (and i have as part of research for a book)you'd see that one of the many points made at the time was that if the fa were so concerned about poor taste why wait until the sport was so estabished financially before acting. Clubs were unhappy too because of the revenue they were about to lose. My honest opinion though is that the growing popularity irked those with misogynistic views at the fA and they acted acoordingly for lot's of reasons.

Alan, womens footy might not be for you and that's fine but I've seen many poor perfomances by englands male team recently and mostly good from englands women. The real barrier to evolving support for the womens game imo is that ladies club football is not played anywhere near to the clubs home ground. This is as true for arsenal ladies as it is for millwall lionesses where league matches are played out at little better than training grounds. You are never going to get grass roots support at that kind of venue. Contrast that with ladies cup finals which are played at proper grounds and get decent spectator turnouts. In other words put a footy match in a proper ground, price the tickets right and home supporters will come. There just has to be the will by the clubs to stage the games on par with the men's game and then give it time to build.

[Alan Medic]

DJ, you just love to make 'serious' points and then ignore them when they are shown to be incorrect. There is no point in discussing something with someone who chooses to ignore any points that don't fit the bill. I'm out.

[DJKillaQueen]

I just have a differing view that's all.

[Huguenot]

Do you genunely think that all those fans were at women's football because they were so exceptionally talented?