COYGIG - Women’s Football World Cup 23 **Mod Warning in Post #58**

Wow talk about being a sore loser, one of the players refusing to shake hands with the Spanish queen and her daughter.

True, I won't have to read about the world class penalty save in that game anymore.

It's complete rubbish - it's saying that all women's sport is worthless, as women are not as strong or as fast as men.

(I notice it's a very popular opinion among right wing, Brexity types in the UK who even hate the England's women's team).

No one is saying it was necessarily the losing of the game, if you know anything about elite level sports, mental preparation before a game plays an important part. I’d wager most Managers and Coaches at any level, but particularly at the elite level prefer not to have their players distracted by having to perform some sort of meaningless gesture before the game. But hey, if you want to believe it didn’t make a difference, then good for you.😀

No one is saying it was necessarily the losing of the game. If you know anything about elite level sports, mental preparation before a game plays an important part.I’d wager most managers and coaches at any level, but particularly at the elite level prefer not to have their players distracted by having to perform some sort of meaningless gesture before the game. But hey, if you want to believe it didn’t make a difference, then good for you.😀

You seem very triggered by something so small and “meaningless” which will have had no material effect on performance. And your other point about “respecting the anthem”, Jesus wept, I’d say you’re spending too much time watching trump videos.

Do you think the same when players sing the national anthem? Takes away their focus as well surely?

Great tournament. Fantastic advertisement for women's soccer. And the standard will only get better with increased funding and increased participation that will come off the back of this.

Comparing it to the men's game is a bit pointless anyway. The women are competing against their peers and these are the best teams that are there.

Argentina or Brazil would probably beat Wolves or Sheffield United 10-0 but that doesn't make the latter two automatically worthless or unwatchable.

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Oh lord here we go, bringing politics into sport yet again.

I hate to burst your bubble, but I live in the UK and have been watching the tournament since day one, I also tune into both GB News and Talk TV (those bastions of the right wing brexity types) and they have been nothing but supportive of the England team and their achievements thus far.

While a growing number of people are happy to support women’s professional soccer and wish them well , where it comes in for ridicule is when some bad faith actors start saying they should be paid the same as the men’s game, these individuals blindly refuse to see that the professional womens game is subsidised in the UK by the Premier league and until such time as they can generate a comparable revenue on their own steam, then talk of salaries equal to the mens game is preposterous.

As the US comedian Bill Burr outlines in one of his bit’s on the WNBA the reason you are not getting paid the same is because “you don’t sell any tickets”.