The BBC Is At It Again

[Arthur (One Shoe) Lee]

Judging by the op's avatar, he's just not interested in women.

 

[The Rolls Royce]

He isn't.....a snowflake would moan if only Modric was mentioned.

I always thought a snowflake was someone who is easily offended and outraged over small things, whatever that may be. By that definition OP is ice cold

 

[Pseudonym Number 1]

Looks like a canny player like BHH

 

[West_Winger]

I always thought a snowflake was someone who is easily offended and outraged over small things, whatever that may be. By that definition OP is ice cold

It is. The irony is that the vast majority of actual snowflakes are those who exhibit the behaviour the most.

 

[Metro Man]

Must admit, it makes me cringe when they refer to 'Men's football'

 

[Roger]

Imagine being so sad that you get offended by what is literally a factual headline.

It's a disgrace though. The headline should have read "Marta & Modric"

I assume that @MrBraithwaite feels threatened by the rise of women's football.

 

[TheRey]

They're in the pubs now too, mate.

Towards the end of MotD 2 on Sunday they said"stay tuned for more football following this show". And I thought - "that's odd I didn't think they had the Football League highlights".

And then they cut to an advert for Women's Soccer League" or whatever the UK version is called.

And I went to bed.

You're so cool.

 

[MrBraithwaite]

It’s all the same faux outrage mate

I don’t think anyone is outraged - it is just amusing that they shoehorned a player in a sport with almost no fans into a headline with the world player of the year. Erm, world male player of the year.

Same as they were putting up clickbait articles about Liverpool, Arsenal, Man City only for it to turn out it was the women’s team (which they left out the headline).

 

[mart]

Given that , apparently, there now exist up to circa five genders, isn't it about time football gave up what is clearly a false distinction between men and women's football? Fifa and the FA, etc should change the rules and allow all genders (however many there are) to play in all teams; that would would put a stop to threads like this, for one thing. Same should apply to athletics and all other sports. I'm really rather surprised that certain pressure groups haven't picked up on this already.


How can we judge when they are kept apart based on male or female, when the range of genders increase seemingly all the time?

Great idea that mind. Apart from not a single woman would have a chance of making it professionally.

 

[super ally]

Is the BBC not doing a public service by promoting female sport in order to encourage more females to stay fit and healthy? I.e. Public Service Broadcasting.

Seems entirely sensible.

#blokeslikefitwimin

 

[weebil64]

This is all very well but what about the really important results in the netball?

 

[IAmZlatan]

I don’t think anyone is outraged - it is just amusing that they shoehorned a player in a sport with almost no fans into a headline with the world player of the year. Erm, world male player of the year.

Same as they were putting up clickbait articles about Liverpool, Arsenal, Man City only for it to turn out it was the women’s team (which they left out the headline).

I’m all for the normalisation of the women’s game myself. If a little lass clicks on the link and inspired, then job done.

Totally agree on your second point, mind. I’ve done that a few times myself!

 

[MrBraithwaite]

I’m all for the normalisation of the women’s game myself. If a little lass clicks on the link and inspired, then job done.

Totally agree on your second point, mind. I’ve done that a few times myself!

True. But rolling them into one story makes no sense. A separate women’s story which led on Marta would have been a more elegant read.

Indeed all you end up doing is making the story a sprawling mess by cramming so much in. Would have been better to have the main roundup and separates on the manager of the year, etc.

 

[West_Winger]

True. But rolling them into one story makes no sense. A separate women’s story which led on Marta would have been a more elegant read.

Indeed all you end up doing is making the story a sprawling mess by cramming so much in. Would have been better to have the main roundup and separates on the manager of the year, etc.

The headline is 8 words long. If that’s what you consider to be a “sprawling mess” then you should probably consider night classes or something.

 

[MrBraithwaite]

The headline is 8 words long. If that’s what you consider to be a “sprawling mess” then you should probably consider night classes or something.

You might consider reading classes - I was talking about the story, not the headline.

 

[Hair Flick]

Looks like a canny player like BHH

Looks like a bit of a 43 trick pony there and in some of the clips she looks really slow.

 

[MrBraithwaite]

Looks like a bit of a 43 trick pony there and in some of the clips she looks really slow.

There is some controversy, as some Australian player is said by some to have been the better player this year. But Marta has been anointed as the female version of Pele, so for marketing reasons she gets the nod.

 

[bernardbresslaw]

Imagine being so sad that you get offended by what is literally a factual headline.

I get where he's coming from though, I've asked Mrs Bresslaw and she doesn't give a shite. I'll have a poll amongst her friends and see what comes up...

Someone in the BBC will be feeling very smug though, which is all that matters

 

[MrBraithwaite]

I get where he's coming from though, I've asked Mrs Bresslaw and she doesn't give a shite. I'll have a poll amongst her friends and see what comes up...

Someone in the BBC will be feeling very smug though, which is all that matters

Thats the thing - nobody is offended. But it is annoying the way the BBC will crowbar their editorial slant into things.

It is not just the BBC either - in the US they had some former England ladies player analyzing at the World Cup.....

... she was still better than Ian Wright, to be fair!

 

[Hebdomad]

I get where he's coming from though, I've asked Mrs Bresslaw and she doesn't give a shite. I'll have a poll amongst her friends and see what comes up...

Someone in the BBC will be feeling very smug though, which is all that matters

Your lass sounds a bit oppressed. Shame on you.