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.

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.

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....

It's kind of predictable that this thread would turn into an opportunity to slag off woman's football.

I watch a lot of football including some woman's football matches. A lot of football podcasts have female contributors and the vast majority are terrific Jacqui Oatley, Natalie gedra etc. Woman's football is really taking off the Barcelona woman's team broke an attendance record recently, Women's euros tickets selling out too. Terrific to see.

Except... that statement is also false...

The coach on the other hand, judging by the link posted by @gmisk, is the emotionally cracked one.

It's OK. When a show is cancelled it normally gets a rerun or 5.

You only have to look at tennis to see that what he said was correct.

6-0, 0-6, 6-1 sort of nonsense.

Zero consistency especially in finals where one opponent usually fails to turn up.

Personally I think it is being artificially propped up by shaming men's football into funding the whole thing at a loss. Now, I don't really have a problem with that as long as people are not telling me that the rise of women's football is something they achieved organically. They give tickets away a lot of the time to get people to watch, as in the Barca game you mentioned, and they get a massively disproportionate media coverage over other sports that actually operate profitably and might now be in danger because of media bias and media willing to take losses in order to appear inclusive.

Again I think it's a good thing that girls and women play sports, and maybe as a result of the biased promotion of women's football it might one day be able to operate without near total handouts from the men's game, but I the market is just too saturated in Europe and I just can't see it happening at all.

A mate trains a ladies gaa team, said they’re a great bunch apart from days where there’s a wedding on and literally nobody turns up at all

Natalie Gedra is brutal and Jacqui Hurley isn't much better. To be fair though I find most pundits male and female are desperate - very little in the way of insight and most times the analysis is bland and generic. Robbing a living most of them

Is it slagging to say that you don't find womens football to be as good as the men's game?

Also I think I read an article recently that said a large chunk of those tickets for the Barca game were pretty much given away - they weren't sold as such. Open to correction on that one though. I think a similar tactic is used in the game here - tickets are given away in schools and stuff to try get kids into it with the hopes they become life long fans. It's a great thing to do and I'd love to see more of it being done in the men's game too