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Was working yesterday so just watched the first half on iplayer, Cameroon should be down to 10, could be down to 9, don't understand the simple rules of the game (back pass, var) should have had multiple bookings after the second goal situation.Cameroon should be hauled in front of every fifa delegate and told that their actions have set the women's game back 10 years. Have the offside rule explained to them, tell them that their actions brought shame on the world Cup and ban them from the next 2 world cups. Show them replays from the game, show them how they treated steph Houghton and then show them the door. Hopefully they will leave the room in tears!
Woke up this morning to read a quote from Hope Solo that quite simply belittles the growth of the ‘women’s game’:
“This Cameroon team, they don't have the resources. They don't have the quality coaching in their country, they don't have the experience like England or somebody like Phil Neville.
We have to try and understand that. Perhaps they weren't even told about the rules, the laws of the game and the evolution of the game. So your heart has to go out a little bit to this Cameroon side. They played with emotions and brought this emotion to the tournament.
As much as we want to see a little bit more class from Cameroon, they did bring that beautiful emotion and packed this entire stadium. You have to look at it both ways.”
If a male had said such a thing he would rightly have been pulled for it.
It is the last 16 of the World Cup....and she is suggesting that players don’t know basic “laws of the game” like the offside rule, for instance?
Patronising at best....
That han solo shit is bollocks, end of the day the only emotion they brought to the game was cunthousery and sulking.Woke up this morning to read a quote from Hope Solo that quite simply belittles the growth of the ‘women’s game’:
“This Cameroon team, they don't have the resources. They don't have the quality coaching in their country, they don't have the experience like England or somebody like Phil Neville.
We have to try and understand that. Perhaps they weren't even told about the rules, the laws of the game and the evolution of the game. So your heart has to go out a little bit to this Cameroon side. They played with emotions and brought this emotion to the tournament.
As much as we want to see a little bit more class from Cameroon, they did bring that beautiful emotion and packed this entire stadium. You have to look at it both ways.”
If a male had said such a thing he would rightly have been pulled for it.
It is the last 16 of the World Cup....and she is suggesting that players don’t know basic “laws of the game” like the offside rule, for instance?
Patronising at best....
I totally agree.I'd say its more culturally patronising. She's making it sound like they are living in some remote tribal outpost.
Jonathan Pearce and his sidekick were doing it throughout. eg "these girls haven't been coached how to tackle" while going on to explain they didn't play together much because they all played overseasI'd say its more culturally patronising. She's making it sound like they are living in some remote tribal outpost.
Just looked on wiki, most play in countries that lack woman's football funding... Spain, france, usa, Sweden.Jonathan Pearce and his sidekick were doing it throughout. eg "these girls haven't been coached how to tackle" while going on to explain they didn't play together much because they all played overseas
Disagree when they are clearly the exception not the rule.Cameroon should be hauled in front of every fifa delegate and told that their actions have set the women's game back 10 years. Have the offside rule explained to them, tell them that their actions brought shame on the world Cup and ban them from the next 2 world cups. Show them replays from the game, show them how they treated steph Houghton and then show them the door. Hopefully they will leave the room in tears!
But that would lead to the wrong decision, in this case i’d argue both offside decisions where ‘blindingly obvious’ they were both clearly offside. Again I think you just don’t like the current offside rule.
dont worry Marra, when the pundits and knowalls get fed up of using it as a tired cliche they'll change it to "strategic deployment" or "real time tactics", anything to make em sound like they're experts.Game management, another new phrase that has entered the beautiful game.![]()
Disagree when they are clearly the exception not the rule.
Cameroon against Holland
I assume lack of funding for water bottles in Cameroon can be blamed
Fair enough.Allow me a little hyperbole. However the eyes of the world are seeing a developing product. They might be an exception but you know as well as I do that games like these unfortunately get 10 times the column inches that a phenomenally high quality, entertaining game like Norway v Australia will. It's not fair but that's the way it is.
Fair enough.
I've been thinking and thinking about the Cameroon behaviour and can't get my head around it. Many of them play their club football as pros or semi-pros in France, so the 'under-developed players in a country that doesn't have the resources to train them properly' narrative doesn't quite work. I can understand deliberate shithousery as a tactic, but this seemed to be driven by so much emotion, and I can't figure out where that has come from or why it was allowed to be given its head by them as individuals, by them as a team (ie not checking and focussing each other) and by the coach. Neville in his post match interview hinted at wider problems in the Cameroon camp.
The England players deserve major plaudits for keeping their heads when all around were losing theirs.I think it was just a complete meltdown at not getting the decision they wanted. For me he most reprehensible was the conduct of the the player screaming at Steph Houghton. My takeaway from this game was the astonishing amount of restraint shown by the England team. For many fans a loss of control is seen as passion. For me the professionalism and cool headedness of the England women is what passion is really about - self control, discipline and total professionalism.
Woke up this morning to read a quote from Hope Solo that quite simply belittles the growth of the ‘women’s game’:
“This Cameroon team, they don't have the resources. They don't have the quality coaching in their country, they don't have the experience like England or somebody like Phil Neville.
We have to try and understand that. Perhaps they weren't even told about the rules, the laws of the game and the evolution of the game. So your heart has to go out a little bit to this Cameroon side. They played with emotions and brought this emotion to the tournament.
As much as we want to see a little bit more class from Cameroon, they did bring that beautiful emotion and packed this entire stadium. You have to look at it both ways.”
If a male had said such a thing he would rightly have been pulled for it.
It is the last 16 of the World Cup....and she is suggesting that players don’t know basic “laws of the game” like the offside rule, for instance?
Patronising at best....
Yeah, at least from the highlights it seemed to just snowball after the first decision went against them, then others also did and it was a case of 'us against the world' complaining.I think it was just a complete meltdown at not getting the decision they wanted. For me he most reprehensible was the conduct of the the player screaming at Steph Houghton. My takeaway from this game was the astonishing amount of restraint shown by the England team. For many fans a loss of control is seen as passion. For me the professionalism and cool headedness of the England women is what passion is really about - self control, discipline and total professionalism.