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Alan Brazil talksport
- Thread starter Ducktales
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It's on itv,isn't it?
Sallycinamon
Midfield
Image and contractual reasons. Are PL clubs not now forced to have ladies teams? In this day and age, imagine the uproar and damage to the ‘brand’ if you weren’t seen as diverse by not having a ladies team. Also many will simply want ladies teams as there’s growing interest in ladies wanting to play.
Once again though, this simply doesn’t mean that the Manchester United fanbase are interested in the ladies team - which is what Alan Brazil is stating.
Roker Scoreboard
Striker
Of course they would be proud, why wouldn't they be. But that wasn't the point being made on the radio show this morning
He'll end up on gbeebies. No doubt about it
So it isn't market forces then
What kind of absolutely tragic life do you have to lead to have nothing better to do of a morning than to go on the internet and pretend you enjoyed the Alan Brazil show
Sallycinamon
Midfield
It’s market forces which dictate how many of Manchester United’s fanbase are interested in the womens team. Which is what the debate is about.
How do you define a minority sport?
There are literally 10s of thousands of girls playing FA games every Saturday, we have a professional women’s league and England games are regularly selling out and getting 60,000 plus crowds. The recent World Cup was watched by billions around the world.
It’s made incredible progress in the last 10-15 years. Is it different from men’s football? Yes? So what? WSL standard is really high, very enjoyable, no diving or cheating to get opponents sent off. It’s played in a far better spirit.
I’ll be honest, the women’s game didn’t used to appeal to me until my kids started playing and now I’m a total convert. And there will be hundreds of thousands of others just like me.
So like it or not, its profile is only going to rise. Sorry if they offends ‘Big Al’ or anybody else who is stuck in the 1980s.
Ducktales
Midfield
How you define very high?? As I’ve said if you put South Shields up against the best womens side in football shields would slaughter them.
The odd game will attract an audience but in the main it’s watched by barely anyone.
I have never and would never compare men’s and women’s football in that way. It’s utterly ridiculous. You’ve got to be pretty thick to make that comparison to be fair.
Sallycinamon
Midfield
You’ve totally missed the point he was making though. He’s not offended by it, he was simply saying that the Manchester United fanbase aren’t bothered about the womens team in the grand scheme of a plan by the new minority owners to get the club back to competing at the top level.
This could well have been said by women’s football’s biggest advocate, it wouldn’t mean they’re offended by it, dislike it or are against it. It would merely have been them stating fact.
Slim999
Winger
I am
He is completely dismissive of women’s football and always has been. Just shrugs it off as thought it doesn’t matter (which to him it clearly doesn’t).
But it’s no surprise. He also believes that people who take their own lives are selfish and should just pull themselves together.
He needs taking off air.
Roker Scoreboard
Striker
Which is being lost in all of this. The attendances would suggest that a significant number of Man U's fanbase aren't interested.
That is a massive overreaction to the conversation this morning, and not the point that was being made.
What's the average attendance in the WSL at the moment out of interest? That could give a guide to the popularity amongst a teams fanbase?
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That shebang is a pain in the arse.What a great listen this morning.
The intolerable shebane waffling on about the Man Utd ‘project’ trying to shoe horn the womens team into it.
Brazil ‘nobody gives a stuff about the womens team’
Somebody had to say it
Slim999
Winger
The large majority of the fan base probs aren't fussed about it .
But there will be quite a few thousands who are- and perhaps many women & girls who may not have been that interested in the men's game
So I suggest that we encourage it as the more the merrier.
As for any football pundits that can't live with female footy , refs or pundits- I say ' get a life '
And for those saying its not as good / fast / athletic/ exciting as the mans game :- it's all relative
Men are generally stronger and faster than women ;- does this mean I should never have watched female competitive sports?
I'd have missed out on Shelly Pryce , Cathy Freeman , Florence Joyner , Olga Korbut , Serena Williams , Sydney McLaughlin , Femke Bol ..... And hundreds of others
That'd be a shame
Sallycinamon
Midfield
I don’t listen to Talksport, so I don’t know his stance on womens football. I’m merely talking about the instance in hand, which he’s totally correct about.
I’m similar. I think it’s great that women are encouraged to play football, my niece plays and she loves it, I sometimes go and watch her play, because it’s my niece. It’s brilliant to see anyone doing and competing in sport, any sport. I’ve nothing whatsoever against women playing football, I’m not misogynistic, I’m not sexist. However, I’ve got no interest in womens football at all, I can’t really help that, it’s just something I don’t find interesting. That doesn’t make me sexist, it doesn’t mean I’m a dinosaur or that I’m living in the 80’s, it’s just a fact. That’s all Alan Brazil is saying - the Manchester United fanbase, on the whole, aren’t interested.
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T_Bone
Striker
She just hasn’t got the voice for radio and cackles on like an excited schoolgirl.
Sallycinamon
Midfield
It’s not about encouraging it, it’s not about women not being interested in the men’s game, it’s not about being able to live with it, it’s not about anyone criticising it. It’s about Alan Brazil stating a fact that, on the whole, Man Utd’s fanbase aren’t interested in the women’s team. You’re arguing totally the wrong point!
