Utter nonsense from female football 'pundit'

I watched a couple of matches on Eurosport.

The female pundit almost pulling the sexist card to her co(male) pundit.

He was like `that yellow card decision seems a bit harsh to me`
Se replies ` Ok then, meet me at the training ground in the morning and i will tackle you like that. Then tell me if you think it should be a yellow card!`

Beat me to it Jezebel.

Isn't this just another case of a sports events that the media have to pretend to be interested in, like they do with the Paralympics ?

Second tier sports broadcasters making the most of whatever they have the rights to.

Advertising is free on the BBC - if you are the BBC.

Add that to their liberal, inclusive, agenda towards sports.

Like your next door neighbours then rob ?

Rob dylan - post at 12.10.

The Beeb really take the p1ss with stuff like this.  Often see a headline on their website like “Evans wins Gold”.  With the insinuation that this Evans character is so well known that they can be identified by surname alone – like Murray, Hamilton, Ennis or Farah.  But I’m scratching my head.  Who could it be?  World Champion so it must be an individual sport – not Cricket, Rugby or Footy.   Can’t think of an athlete, tennis player, boxer golfer, swimmer called Evans.  Lets look further afield – motorcyclist, rally driver, gymnast, diver, judoist, takewondoer, canoeist badminton, squash.  No still coming up blank..  Oh fk it lets click on the link and see what our great British sporting superstar has won.  Its bollocking Commonwealth para winter games at some pissing dry ski slope in Wiltshire and one of our blind skiers has won a race.  Ffs.

British Broadcasting corporation or as I like to call them, B@stard B@stard Coonts.



I'm disabled but that's one of the funniest posts I've seen for a long time - couldn't agree more.

I was sure the Commonwealth Para Games were in Glasgow.  Mind you, I guess they could have just driven her to Wiltshire and told her she was in Glasgow.  Doubt she'd know unless someone spilled the beans.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yP0IMbll7GI

Rob's on fire!

The BBC does a lot of great things but the way they try to brainwash people into believing that things like wimmens football are great and if you don't agree you're not politically correct is really getting on my tits.

Valium for mmm, oc.

how many women would tune in to watch the mens netball world cup,

It's the BBC Reithian imperative though, to educate as well as entertain and to take non-populist angles in doing so.

Ultimately only you can decide if you're being entertained / educated or are getting anything from watching women's football. Yes, the marketing by the BBC might be clumsy and verging on overkill but I think 21st century first world media consumers have pretty good bullsh1t detectors (just look at this thread!) and have a fair understanding when their being conned.

So I showed up for France vs England yesterday. Like most, well it's sport isn't it and free to air too. Second, well, it's England isn't it - home nation and I'd probably checkout 'us' playing tiddlywinks if it was covered.

Finally though, God it was boring even judged in its own right. You had hoped against all hope that an English team may have considered attack......aggression.....giving the opposition something to think about, but no, we revert to the grim, determined, hard work, 'putting our bodies on the line' template that has served us oh-so-well over the years.

.....and the English goalie is the biggest 'here's one for the camera' poser I've ever seen in a football shirt (and I've seen Gergios Samaras play as a guide here)

Not impressed so far then.

I watched the whole of that talk.  I went to Brum uni so was a bit of nostalgia, I remember that hall she was in.  Bit difficult to know what to say.  I mean the beeb didnt even get the rights to the paralympics(correct me if I am wrong) in 2012.  Now they think they can make up for it by giving inflated coverage to blind skiing. 

I remember, as many on here did, when Pam won that gold medal.  Was a great chit chat moment.  The paralympics are a big thing and deserve lots of coverage.  Unfortunately the competitiveness is necessarily not too high for so many events.  In that link rtb's daughter mentions that 20pc of people in this country are "disabled". I had presumed it was more like 1 or 2 pc, a misconception that was at the heart of that speech.  But are 20pc of people eligible to take part in paralympic sport?  Whatever the pc it is necessarily further cut down because a blind person is not the same as a dwarf is not the same as a double amputee etc.  in summary the paralympics should be given a lot of coverage.  Blue riband events like wheelchair marathons or, say, 100m single amputee?  I dunno they deserve some coverage at world champs etc.  but the rest should all be under a "disabled sport" tab with results and write ups there if you want to know about it.  That blind skier deserves her accolades but putting it as one of the main headlines, Referring to her only by surname is not the right way to go about it.

remember channel 4 making an absolute horlicks of covering the race and only cut to it just before the finish

Really interesting conversation this one.

I suppose sport in its purest form is the Men's 100 metres, Long Jump and High Jump. Anything else is slower, lower and shorter, made up and basically not the real deal.

How far down the list do you go after that then? They cover U21's football but not the world junior athletics championships. They cover Ice Dancing but not Bodybuilding. They cover some of the Paralympics but not much of the Boccia.

Ultimately as a broadcaster you have to give the public what they want whilst trying to go 'here's something new you might enjoy'.

The way you go about executing that though can be half-ar$ed in the extreme (see The Womens World Cup, Rob Dylans disabled skier and my bête noire, BBC's Formula 1 coverage)

take a bow Rob Dylan - that post at 12.10 is genius

couldn't have put it better myself

I'd tather watch women's football anytime the East fkin Enders!