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I was just making a flippant point about discrimination. I am aware that tennis is not similar but do women get paid proportionally for their 3 sets against the men’s 5? Is women’s football getting reasonable funding from the FA? Do young girls have equal opportunities to play football at school or through local clubs? Whether you care about women’s football or not there is clearly an appetite for those wanting to play and those wanting to watch it. The current debate is about getting the funding required to support women’s football. It seems to me a reasonable thing for those interested in it to fight for better funding and in doing so you cannot ignore “gender politics” given the historic issues that women have faced over inequality.

I agree. But at least things are moving in the right direction for women’s football. I don’t believe that people have watched this WC because of the hype. I believe they have watched because they are genuinely interested. Now that needs to be built on. It needs more investment and more support financially from the FA but ultimately it needs to generate more cash itself which means more bums on seats, more people watching on tv and more sponsorship. The USA have shown what can be done if you support the sports at grass roots financially. I hope that this WC will provide the impetus for other countries to follow suit. Hopefully we are moving away from calling women footballers “9 pinters” and closer towards referring to their sporting abilities. Going into this WC I heard that women goal keepers were a joke. True, some have been poor, but I have seen a number of quality performances, not least from the Netherlands keeper last night. There has also been some comical defending but also some brilliant defending, not to mention a number of cracking goals. Women’s football is still seen as a poor relation to men’s football so I don’t see the problem in highlighting the financial issues. They do need to be addressed if the momentum from this WC is to continue.

Those pesky women still don’t know their place eh hypo? It seems to completely pass you by that gender politics is there for a reason. The patronisation if women’s football has been unreal. Give them smaller goals, smaller pitches and lighter balls. They don’t want them. They want their game to be given the same level of respect as men’s football. It is not as if the matches are finishing 21-17. Mostly the games has been as closely contested as the men’s game despite the huge handicap of having to play on full size pitches with full size goals and the same weight of ball. Who’d have thunk it? As in the men’s game, there were some excellent games, some average games and some poor games. Women’s football still has a way to go, but I have really enjoyed the World Cup A’s has everyone I have spoken to. Women’s football is coming on in leaps and bounds and of course there are going to be issues about funding, pay etc as long as there is such a huge disparity between the men’s game and the women’s game. If you hadn’t noticed it has been going on in professional tennis for years. Most sane people would say that men are overpaid for what they do in football. It is not unreasonable for women to argue that they are being underpaid. You don’t like the “gender politics?” I wonder how you felt when that uppity Rosa Parks refused to get off the bus?

Sky sports reporting that both FF and McCarthy are up for sale.

Quality player. So sad he got a lot of stick and was labelled ‘sick note.” He clearly loved the club.

Following in the men’s footsteps, plucky losers and can’t put a penalty away. Still, they gave the Yanks a better game in the second half.

Can’t see us winning this. Every time the ball is played into our box they look like getting a goal. We are going to have to play a lot better in the second half.

Sky sports reporting that the deal is worth £11m. Sounds more realistic than the £17m previously reported.

I’m not sure why this sale should “come back to haunt us.” The club have had long enough to access his potential and it looks like that is Championship level. Nothing wrong with that as long as you are a Championship club. He looks like he will do ok at that level but the fact that Premiership clubs aren’t queuing up for his services tells you all you need to know. He doesn’t look like the type of striker who is now going to massively improve, which he would need to if he was going to play at the highest level.

Nobody reads The Guardian? Apparently you do Ducky.

It is odd isn’t it? I don’t know why the mods don’t deal with this kind of cr ap. People have been banned for less than this in the past, now the worst you can expect is to be moved to the Kindergarten thread.

David Okereke

Why would I need to plead with anyone not to rape somebody on a football forum? You right wing types have strange values.

The only thing I would plead with you for is not to have children.

Your wife and her family must be so proud of you.

But we are not talking about me. We are talking about your assertion that you would speak out against poor behaviour by people of the same political persuasion as yourself when clearly that is not true as there was not a peep from you about Benjamin's deeply unpleasant comments. Seems that hypocrisy is not just the domain of the “lefties.”

Remind me Duckie, did you speak out against Carl Benjamin’s “wouldn’t even rape” comment? I am guessing not after your “9 pinter” comment.

Loved the Norway v Australia game last night. England need to cut out the sloppy play.

Loved the Norway v Australia game last night. England need to cut out the sloppy play.

Football Fancast have both our home and away kits in their list of best kits of next season.

I’m impressed with your optimism Duckie, but I fear that Brexit will do for Boris/Jeremy and the Blue Rinsers.

My bad. Assumed that the rude word police would blank out vag! Fannyphobe, great expression! Duckie, if you don’t like them hairy I hear that verdant lady gardens are back in vogue.

I think anything with a brain and a vag*na would scare you Duckie.

I’m not sure on which planet Gove and Hunt could be perceived as a dream ticket. Gove is a slimy piece of work. Whatever you think of Johnson that stab in the back was deeply unpleasant. Hunt has had a less than stellar ministerial career and probably should have been removed to the back benches a long time ago. As for Johnson, God help us. We were on the edge of a possible interesting period of electoral reform a few years ago, but Clegg made the wrong choice and now we are stuck with these clowns.

Wes is right UJ. It makes no difference if Gove and Hunt had colluded or not, Boris was always going to have enough votes to make the final two. All that is left now is for The Blue Rinse Brigade to decide who is the least objectionable between Johnson and Hunt. I’m quite looking forward to a Labour/LibDem coalition at the end of the year. We desperately need a new direction in this country. When people start talking about deciding between Hunt and Johnson for PM you know things are bad.