The Poolie Bunker

Jamie, you will "like" the fact that the BBC have the women's FA Cup 1st round fixture in front of the FA Cup 1st round fixtures for the men.
I know you complained about something similar and got short change from the BBC.
But surely this time Jamie if you complained this woke outfit will have to concede they have it wrong!

i,d like to have a little bet that is was a man and not a woman who is to blame for all this. know a dog walker whose daughter plays top womens football and both readily admit to the female game being below the level of the mens in the same way all sports are. she loves playing though and wonder if more are put off watching it because of the media push and not lack of real interest or just being nosy. i refused to referee it not because of its standard but the constant push push on female football from school lasses upwards by the FA.

Happens all the time Stocksfield, I made a comment a while back why women’s football fixtures were taking precedence over men’s football. The comment was removed saying some thing along the lines it was inappropriate and didn’t follow house rules.

Should separate the men completely from the football section on the BBC. The woman have their own section but headline the general football most of the time.

Average attendances for womens WSL football have fallen from over 7,000 in 2024 to just over 5,000. Chelsea women played a fixture at Stamford Bridge and got 8,000. When the Women's world cup or their Euros are on, they get a boost attendance wise but then the interest declines. Why? because the product is inferior. Not enough people are interested in it to make it finacially viable so all thw WSL teams are massively bank roled by their men's teams. For obvious political reasons the BBC try to push back on the lack of interest in the women's game much to everyone's irritation.

The gulf is huge…..with the BBC, there’s more interest in inclusivity for the sake of it than any real comparison of the two levels, because they just aren’t equal.

and those attendances were boosted by free tickets given out to groups especially kids who play the game.

even the lasses who play at the top level know this and that what makes the whole situation even more annoying. someone thanks to rge bbc pushing it might give it a go and be so dissapointed they will never go again. Thats because of the bbc making something out to be more important and better than it really is and expectations higher than they should have been,

Very true and tickets for women's games are vastly cheaper than the men's.

There should be 2 separate pages on BBC, one for women’s sports and one for men.

would save a lot of time and effort for the reader if the headline stated it was a man or a woman related football story. sick of a headline like arsenal star out for the season only to find out its one of the lasses

You’ve got my support on that one Jamie.
All done to pacify people who’ve never been to a match in their life.