Women's footy

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[AjaxAndy]

Going to see the Lionesses tomorrow night, will be my 9 year old's first love footy experience.

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[Cods]

Good start, think this is a little further than FIFAs new regs though so should be applauded.

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[Shogun]

Eni Aluko being really smart again.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/630245 ... broadcast/

Eni Aluko believes male pundits such as Ian Wright are at risk of blocking their female equivalents from working in the women’s game.

Aluko, the former England and Chelsea striker, said that men needed to be “aware” that there were limited opportunities for women broadcasters to work in the sport.

Wright, 61, has been a vocal supporter of women’s football and is a regular pundit on match coverage in the United Kingdom and elsewhere.

Aluko, who has worked for ITV, TNT Sports, Amazon Prime and Fox Sports in the U.S. after ending her playing career in 2020, was asked by the BBC Woman’s Hour presenter Clare McDonnell, whether she stood by her previous criticisms that men dominated broadcasting and coaching roles in the women’s game.

She said: “I will never be able to usurp Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher. These are guys that have done it for a long time, they are brilliant broadcasters and rightly dominate their sport. I think the same should apply in the women’s game.”

When asked by McDonnell whether Wright was an example of what she was talking about, the 38-year-old replied: “I’ve worked with Ian a long time and I think he’s a brilliant broadcaster, but I think he’s aware of just how much he’s doing in the women’s game. I think he should be aware of that.

“There is a limited amount of space available. I can’t dominate the men’s game in the way that – you know, you used Ian as an example – Ian is dominating the women’s game.”

Asked if that was wrong, Aluko added: “I don’t know about it being wrong. We need to make sure that women are not being blocked from having a pathway to broadcasting in the women’s game. It is still new, it is still growing. There is a very fine amount of opportunities and I think that men need to be aware of that.

“They need to be aware that you are in a growing sport of women and we haven’t always had those opportunities.”

[Audrey Horne]

She's an absolute prick.

I saw that Ian has been broadcast for one WSL game? He does it more often for the internationals.

He is unbelievable support to the women's game. Championing it constantly. He even paid for a player to have an acl operation or something i think I read.

He is literally the last person I would be bitching about.

[biziclop]

Tbf to her this is altogether the wrong line of questioning in the immediate aftermath of the Joey Barton case. She even talked about how rattled she was when that cunt set his incel followers on her.

[TheRam]

She’s a horror.

I still remember her rant about people claiming furlough dieting the pandemic.

[Audrey Horne]

Yeah she's horrible.

Right wing dangerous views. Then plays the victim when people call her out.

[Evertonfc15]

when i read this story the first time i thought it was a wind up
wrighty is a class act and supports womens footy all the way
how can u criticise this guy is beyond me - appalling views from eni aluko