NI Women's Football Manager to be cancelled for telling the truth

oh he'll be sacked alright there's no doubt, a silly thing to say in this day and age though imo as it was always going to cause a backlash as it's evil man versus downtrodden woman again

it's so annoying on skysportsnews or any other channel giving results it's very confusing, i really dont enjoy sport on tv as much anymore as the "experts" are sooooo bad, male or female as they are usually the token "expert" and not quipped to actually do the job.

I actually didn't think anyone believed that any more, and I'm fairly sure recent studies have shown that it's not true. Other studies have shown that there's a gender bias in describing emotion in sport. When men display emotion, it's passion. When women display emotion, it's irrational.

I don't think he deserves a sacking but it is a bit of a silly thing to say.

Of course men notoriously don't get emotional about sport 🙄

They've absolutely destroyed BBC 5live with their tut-tuting about sport that is played a million miles from their own level of skill.

There should definitely be more equality. Women's football should be accepted the same as men's football and they should be supported and encouraged to be confident enough to be able to do the same things as the men can get away with

Search youtube for "smith and jones women's football"

To be fair on this occasion the headline on Sky is actually being generous to Shiels. He didn't just say that women are more emotional than men. He suggested that they were unable to cope emotionally with conceding a goal because they are women. That's a bit insulting to be fair and I reckon ironically it may have been his own emotional response to being humbled last night.

I wouldn't watch women's football if it was on in my back garden, but what he said was pretty bad when he is supposed to be in charge of a women's team and I don't see how he could walk into that changing room again.

Plot twist:

He assembles a team composed entirely of trans women.

He goes from media villain to hero overnight.

They beat England 37-0 next time.

He's apologised now which may save his job.

It doesn't matter whether he is right or wrong about women conceding goals in quick succession.

I'd sack him. Not because i care deeply about his take psychology but because he obviously doesn't understand basic leadership principles or how to gain buy in. Half of his team are sure to down tools for him on hearing that. He's not fit for Sunday league team.

I had the unfortunate experience yesterday of listening to RTE1 on the radio, they were talking about the Irish team playing the Swedish team, and that the Swedes were the best in the world at the moment, oh news to me but maybe.... it took about 5min before they mentioned they were talking about the women's team

Thoughts and prayers....

If you were a fan of the Ireland men's team you would have known they weren't playing....