Woman's football results BBC sport

BigJeffy · **Posted:** Sat Feb 26, 2022 8:25 pm

I see BBC sport have a ladies FA cup result nestled between league 1 and league 2 results today. I wish they would arrange a few games between ladies top teams v's teams from NL N&S, league of wales, Highland/lowland leagues and Irish league to confirm really where the ladies results should sit on merit. What does anyone else think?

Ozzy Saltburn · **Joined:** Mon Nov 01, 2021 11:34 pm **Posts:** 3765

With you all the way. I suspect it is all to do with politics rather than the merit of womens football or even its popularity or lack of. Even Man City women struggle to get more than 3,000 watching and the majority of the others struggle to get even half of that.

Our Younguns Dad · **Joined:** Fri Dec 15, 2006 12:22 am **Posts:** 224

BigJeffy wrote:

I see BBC sport have a ladies FA cup result nestled between league 1 and league 2 results today. I wish they would arrange a few games between ladies top teams v's teams from NL N&S, league of wales, Highland/lowland leagues and Irish league to confirm really where the ladies results should sit on merit. What does anyone else think?

I noticed that as well Jeff............It boils my piss the way the BBC are shoe horning the womens game at every opportunity.

What makes it worse is that there is a tab along the top called Women!! Click on that and it appears to include everything the slip into the Football tab.

Why don't they do it properly and have a Mens Football tab and then we can all decide what we want to look at

BigJeffy · **Posted:** Sat Feb 26, 2022 10:00 pm

Re: Why don't they do it properly and have a Mens Football tab and then we can all decide what we want to look at

From what I remember that is how it used to be. Yep, boils my piss too

Brasil Brush · **Joined:** Sat Aug 04, 2018 10:10 am **Posts:** 1539

Give it a decade and I'm sure women's football will no longer be a niche and it will be a sustainability supported game as well as a higher standard, but under its current guise its not as it just hasn't had enough time.

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37433

Brasil Brush wrote:

Give it a decade and I'm sure women's football will no longer be a niche and it will be a sustainability supported game as well as a higher standard, but under its current guise its not as it just hasn't had enough time.

I doubt it ever will. I just think it’s not very good at all and I’m not going to pretend it is to satisfy the dream.
The BBC give it virtually equal precedence to the men’s game to pay lip service to the new world order and happily embrace it. I’m really not interested.

accrington fan · **Joined:** Wed Jan 20, 2016 3:22 pm **Posts:** 19727

Ozzy Saltburn wrote:

With you all the way. I suspect it is all to do with politics rather than the merit of womens football or even its popularity or lack of. Even Man City women struggle to get more than 3,000 watching and the majority of the others struggle to get even half of that.

and thats with all the pushing and free publicity it gets. know nothing about how their game is run, but are these womens teams just using the names of pro clubs and have sod all to do with them regarding finance etc. from them. years ago when womens football was starting to get bigger they needed match officials. my local f.a. did not like my stance of refusing to ref. there games by saying they should recruit there own first if they are that bothered.

Bluestreak · **Posted:** Sun Feb 27, 2022 10:20 am

What about the non_binary league?

Sussex UK · **Joined:** Wed Dec 28, 2016 10:34 pm **Posts:** 3553

A season ticket or Saturday afternoon at the shopping mall ..which one would work out cheapest for us? bbolt

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37433

Bluestreak wrote:

What about the non_binary league?

Wouldn’t that mean two teams would have about ten changing rooms.....?

Mr Irrelevant · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:25 pm **Posts:** 22665

Anyone else remember the Christmas womens games in greyfields enclosure?

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37433

Mr Irrelevant wrote:

Anyone else remember the Christmas womens games in greyfields enclosure?

It was Cerebos ladies v AEI ladies on a Good Friday.

Mr Irrelevant · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:25 pm **Posts:** 22665

Was it? I have a vague recollection of it as a kid. I suspect the crowd of blokes were just perving. Not that it's a bad thing.

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37433

laugh:

ziggysawdust · **Joined:** Wed Mar 09, 2011 12:03 am **Posts:** 295

Brasil Brush wrote:

I saw a clip the other day of a new Zealand women's player scoring a hat trick of own goals. Yes, own goals. Yet a majority of the comments were from people defending the women's game in general, and calling anyone who called out the difference in standard misogynists!

It seems to me both the BBC among other people want to do the right thing and get more young girls involved in football. The thing is, it reeks of them trying to ham-fistedidly sell a product to a non existent consumer. I saw another video my mate uploaded of an Arnold Clark cup game between Spain and Germany at Middlesbrough, the crowd was absolutely dead. Granted it was a Friday afternoon, but the attendance genuinely was around 200 or so.

Give it a decade and I'm sure women's football will no longer be a niche and it will be a sustainability supported game as well as a higher standard, but under its current guise its not as it just hasn't had enough time.

Don't watch women's footy but re: the own goal hat-trick...

Didn't Michael Proctor do the same thing for Sunderland in the premier league?

Flying Hogans · **Joined:** Tue Nov 05, 2019 10:29 pm **Posts:** 5527

ziggysawdust wrote:

It seems to me both the BBC among other people want to do the right thing and get more young girls involved in football. The thing is, it reeks of them trying to ham-fistedidly sell a product to a non existent consumer. I saw another video my mate uploaded of an Arnold Clark cup game between Spain and Germany at Middlesbrough, the crowd was absolutely dead. Granted it was a Friday afternoon, but the attendance genuinely was around 200 or so.

Give it a decade and I'm sure women's football will no longer be a niche and it will be a sustainability supported game as well as a higher standard, but under its current guise its not as it just hasn't had enough time.

Don't watch women's footy but re: the own goal hat-trick...

Didn't Michael Proctor do the same thing for Sunderland in the premier league?[/quote]

The issue isn't women's football as such but the ridiculous hype surrounding it, for which the BBC is the chief culprit. The 'crowd' for the Spain v Germany international at the Riverside was in the 140s. There will have been 3 or 4 times as many women and lasses in for Pools v Tranmere two days before. Merging coverage of the men's and women's games to the point of inventing a hierarchy of results is pure fannying about, if not bollocks

ziggysawdust · **Joined:** Wed Mar 09, 2011 12:03 am **Posts:** 295

Flying Hogans wrote:

ziggysawdust wrote:

It seems to me both the BBC among other people want to do the right thing and get more young girls involved in football. The thing is, it reeks of them trying to ham-fistedidly sell a product to a non existent consumer. I saw another video my mate uploaded of an Arnold Clark cup game between Spain and Germany at Middlesbrough, the crowd was absolutely dead. Granted it was a Friday afternoon, but the attendance genuinely was around 200 or so.

Give it a decade and I'm sure women's football will no longer be a niche and it will be a sustainability supported game as well as a higher standard, but under its current guise its not as it just hasn't had enough time.

Don't watch women's footy but re: the own goal hat-trick...

Didn't Michael Proctor do the same thing for Sunderland in the premier league?

The issue isn't women's football as such but the ridiculous hype surrounding it, for which the BBC is the chief culprit. The 'crowd' for the Spain v Germany international at the Riverside was in the 140s. There will have been 3 or 4 times as many women and lasses in for Pools v Tranmere two days before. Merging coverage of the men's and women's games to the point of inventing a hierarchy of results is pure fannying about, if not bollocks

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Oh that's just the BBC being out of touch. Don't think they understand forcing things on people does the opposite of increasing their popularity.

If they had any brains and wanted to make women's footy more popular, they'd be doing everything to get more women playing it. The upper classes who pull all the strings are essentially a pack of out of touch spastics.

Bluestreak · **Posted:** Mon Feb 28, 2022 1:49 pm

Snowy wrote:

Mr Irrelevant wrote:

Anyone else remember the Christmas womens games in greyfields enclosure?

It was Cerebos ladies v AEI ladies on a Good Friday.

Ladies or Women :laugh:

Ozzy Saltburn · **Joined:** Mon Nov 01, 2021 11:34 pm **Posts:** 3765

Flying Hogans wrote:

ziggysawdust wrote:

It seems to me both the BBC among other people want to do the right thing and get more young girls involved in football. The thing is, it reeks of them trying to ham-fistedidly sell a product to a non existent consumer. I saw another video my mate uploaded of an Arnold Clark cup game between Spain and Germany at Middlesbrough, the crowd was absolutely dead. Granted it was a Friday afternoon, but the attendance genuinely was around 200 or so.

Give it a decade and I'm sure women's football will no longer be a niche and it will be a sustainability supported game as well as a higher standard, but under its current guise its not as it just hasn't had enough time.

Don't watch women's footy but re: the own goal hat-trick...

Didn't Michael Proctor do the same thing for Sunderland in the premier league?

The issue isn't women's football as such but the ridiculous hype surrounding it, for which the BBC is the chief culprit. The 'crowd' for the Spain v Germany international at the Riverside was in the 140s. There will have been 3 or 4 times as many women and lasses in for Pools v Tranmere two days before. Merging coverage of the men's and women's games to the point of inventing a hierarchy of results is pure fannying about, if not bollocks

[/quote]

Yep, you've summed it up rather well.

accrington fan · **Joined:** Wed Jan 20, 2016 3:22 pm **Posts:** 19727

[quote="ziggysawdust"]

Oh that's just the BBC being out of touch. Don't think they understand forcing things on people does the opposite of increasing their popularity.

If they had any brains and wanted to make women's footy more popular, they'd be doing everything to get more women playing it.
BBC out of touch, never. Would be interesting if they had a womans international on at the same time as that sodding winter olympics which would get the best viewing figures. as for lasses playing it, well i know plenty of women who have no interest in any sport and would be the last thing they would want to be involved in. had a step daughter who at school only dreaded one day of the week and that was when sports were played. my ex got writers cramp with notes to excuse her.

accrington fan · **Joined:** Wed Jan 20, 2016 3:22 pm **Posts:** 19727

[quote="ziggysawdust"]

Oh that's just the BBC being out of touch. Don't think they understand forcing things on people does the opposite of increasing their popularity.

If they had any brains and wanted to make women's footy more popular, they'd be doing everything to get more women playing it.
BBC out of touch, never. Would be interesting if they had a womans international on at the same time as that sodding winter olympics which would get the best viewing figures. as for lasses playing it, well i know plenty of women who have no interest in any sport and would be the last thing they would want to be involved in. had a step daughter who at school only dreaded one day of the week and that was when sports were played. my ex got writers cramp with notes to excuse her.

derwent · **Joined:** Wed Jun 24, 2009 7:59 pm **Posts:** 12363

Bluestreak wrote:

Snowy wrote:

Mr Irrelevant wrote:

Anyone else remember the Christmas womens games in greyfields enclosure?

It was Cerebos ladies v AEI ladies on a Good Friday.

Ladies or Women :laugh:

Round our end it was classed as the Tarts Clash. :laugh:

accrington fan · **Joined:** Wed Jan 20, 2016 3:22 pm **Posts:** 19727

derwent wrote:

Bluestreak wrote:

Snowy wrote:

Mr Irrelevant wrote:

Anyone else remember the Christmas womens games in greyfields enclosure?

It was Cerebos ladies v AEI ladies on a Good Friday.

Ladies or Women :laugh:

Round our end it was classed as the Tarts Clash. :laugh:

thought that was a description of games under harrison when pools played an equally inept and soft side.

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37433

Would I pay to watch women’s football...no.
Would I go if it was free........no
Would I go to watch it if they paid me......no but that also equally applies to tennis, golf, Olympics, rugby, F1 etc. To be fair. Oh, and boxing too.

accrington fan · **Joined:** Wed Jan 20, 2016 3:22 pm **Posts:** 19727

even the majority of women feel just the same.

Barriewardrobe2 · **Posted:** Tue Mar 29, 2022 11:02 pm

Been on the BBC Sport website, and the football section over the last week or so. On the right hand side they always have todays/tonight's fixtures, and below the Premier League Table is the 'default' league they have showing. But because there are no Premier League games for nearly 2 weeks, the league table they have showing is the Women Super League one, like anyone actually gives a flying feck !!! :laugh:

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37433

They’re busy creating an illusion, the new norm that has created a curious distance from reality. Nearly all the ‘meeeeja’ are busy flogging it, one national radio station have a ad constantly bragging about the size of the crowds in the Women’s North London derby, and....?
If anyone wants to watch it, that’s their business, but this constant trying to flog it is getting a bit tedious in the extreme.

accrington fan · **Joined:** Wed Jan 20, 2016 3:22 pm **Posts:** 19727

as someone said earlier, even women do not care or are interested. just wonder what women at the vic and other grounds actually think about it or the interest they have if they do not play themselves. its not being sexist as i do not mind watching womens tennis or athletics but their football leaves me cold. if the BBC actually shut their big gobs about it i might be less critical. all the hype has the opposite affect on me.

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37433

The BBC are as wet as a session on the end of the Heugh breakwater in a January Nor’Easterly. Match of the day is beyond dreadful, it’s like a fireside chat with Catweazle and ‘friends’.

Brasil Brush · **Joined:** Sat Aug 04, 2018 10:10 am **Posts:** 1539

As someone who used BBC Iplayer the other day for a match, i can see what people mean. Women's football is always at the forefront.

I'm fine with women's football but all the hype is a wee bit much now.

accrington fan · **Joined:** Wed Jan 20, 2016 3:22 pm **Posts:** 19727

Brasil Brush wrote:

As someone who used BBC Iplayer the other day for a match, i can see what people mean. Women's football is always at the forefront.

I'm fine with women's football but all the hype is a wee bit much now.

wait till a club signs their first trans footballer. their game will then eat itself alive with constant wrangling from both sections of the argument.

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37433

accrington fan wrote:

Brasil Brush wrote:

As someone who used BBC Iplayer the other day for a match, i can see what people mean. Women's football is always at the forefront.

I'm fine with women's football but all the hype is a wee bit much now.

wait till a club signs their first trans footballer. their game will then eat itself alive with constant wrangling from both sections of the argument.

Good point there Mr A, any team wouldn’t need many trans players in a team to dominate the game.

Barriewardrobe2 · **Posted:** Wed Mar 30, 2022 11:45 pm

Tonight's BBC Sport website headline for the last 3 hours....
Can't believe they ignore the Men's walking football leagues. :-o

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/60934500

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37433

Barriewardrobe2 wrote:

Tonight's BBC Sport website headline for the last 3 hours....
Can't believe they ignore the Men's walking football leagues. :-o

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/60934500

You really do have to question the thought process that permeates BBC Sport in general and what goes on in the woke cranium cavity of these people from another planet.

accrington fan · **Joined:** Wed Jan 20, 2016 3:22 pm **Posts:** 19727

think the BBC attitude to minor sports is only highlighted by the fact that the far bigger percentage of popular sports are covered by sky and others. make the most of your few crumbs on the table. the boat race will be with us again shortly so that can be used as a bastion of inclusivity with role models pushed out for kids.

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37433

Rumour has it they’ve pushed the boat out to beat their rivals to exclusive viewing rights to a number of sports next season, including.....

Luxton and District Ladies Marbles
European Freestyle Draughts and Ludo Finals
North Korean Line Dancing
Fiji FA Cup first round matches
Welsh Extreme Egg Scrambling Final
Sloth Wrestling
Chimp Chess

Enjoy....... :razz:

Flying Hogans · **Joined:** Tue Nov 05, 2019 10:29 pm **Posts:** 5527

Barriewardrobe2 wrote:

Tonight's BBC Sport website headline for the last 3 hours....
Can't believe they ignore the Men's walking football leagues. :-o

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/60934500

Now that England are through to the Women's Cricket World Cup Final on Sunday, what chance does the Queens Park v Cove Rangers game have of getting the coverage it deserves?

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37433

They’ll get a couple ex England Women cricketers like Hermione Box-Balls and Agatha Google-Jolly and they’ll give us the run down on how women’s cricket is gonna be massive in the future...zzzzzzzzzzzzzz

accrington fan · **Joined:** Wed Jan 20, 2016 3:22 pm **Posts:** 19727

and then go on to commontate on the mens game with a 50/50 split between men and women commontators.

Jamie1952 · **Joined:** Fri Jul 15, 2011 3:56 pm **Posts:** 7416

The main footy page on the BBC normally shows the Premiere League tavpble, today it’s showing the woman’s league !

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37433

I now avoid the BBC in the way the Titanic should have avoided icebergs, nothing good ever comes of it.

poolie1 · **Joined:** Sat Jan 31, 2015 11:45 pm **Posts:** 2002

at least the bbc diversity dept have given our savannah marshall a good write up today.....the lass certainly has a good upper cut judging by that pic..... :laugh:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/boxing/60912983

Flying Hogans · **Joined:** Tue Nov 05, 2019 10:29 pm **Posts:** 5527

Barriewardrobe2 wrote:

Tonight's BBC Sport website headline for the last 3 hours....
Can't believe they ignore the Men's walking football leagues. :-o

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/60934500

And isn't it heart warming to see that the Premiership natural order has asserted itself in women's footie too? Top 5 are Chelsea, Arsenal, Man U, Man C and Spurs.
Only Liverpool are missing - women must still be restricted to answering the phone and making the tea at Anfield

Can't see the Toon Saudis being too fussed about making an impact on the WSL either

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37433

Flying Hogans wrote:

Barriewardrobe2 wrote:

Tonight's BBC Sport website headline for the last 3 hours....
Can't believe they ignore the Men's walking football leagues. :-o

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/60934500

And isn't it heart warming to see that the Premiership natural order has asserted itself in women's footie too? Top 5 are Chelsea, Arsenal, Man U, Man C and Spurs.
Only Liverpool are missing - women must still be restricted to answering the phone and making the tea at Anfield

Can't see the Toon Saudis being too fussed about making an impact on the WSL either

If they brought out a toddlers league the same sharks would dominate. Football at the ‘top level’ nowadays is self lubricating money machine and there’s an ocean of mugs out there happy to swim in it.

accrington fan · **Joined:** Wed Jan 20, 2016 3:22 pm **Posts:** 19727

[quote="poolie1"]at least the bbc diversity dept have given our savannah marshall a good write up today.....the lass certainly has a good upper cut judging by that pic..... :laugh:

She has a long way to go if ever to catch their biggest box ticker of all time nicola adams who will surely get into the BBC hall of sporting fame plus a lifesized statue in broadcasting house.

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37433

She’ll end up on Match of the Day then.

Sussex UK · **Joined:** Wed Dec 28, 2016 10:34 pm **Posts:** 3553

poolie1 wrote:

at least the bbc diversity dept have given our savannah marshall a good write up today.....the lass certainly has a good upper cut judging by that pic..... :laugh:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/boxing/60912983

Who's next the for the 'Silent Assassin'? . Claressa 'T-Rex' Shields ?....You'd be up for a ringside seat for that one surely, snowy?

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37433

Women boxing?..... no thanks.

Sussex UK · **Joined:** Wed Dec 28, 2016 10:34 pm **Posts:** 3553

Brasil Brush wrote:

As someone who used BBC Iplayer the other day for a match, i can see what people mean. Women's football is always at the forefront.

I'm fine with women's football but all the hype is a wee bit much now.

The Women's Six Nations rugby clash between Wales and Scotland is on BBC 2 now..

Sussex UK · **Joined:** Wed Dec 28, 2016 10:34 pm **Posts:** 3553

Snowy wrote:

Women boxing?..... no thanks.

me neither,but i love a good nickname.

Woman's football results BBC sport

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