Old school tear up?

[Sophos151]

Why is women's football so sub par? No sexist overtones, i really mean it - even at the top end, it's barely League 2 in terms of pace and ability, which makes no sense. Is it just a law of averages thing? I mean, there are clearly some very talented, very fast, very technical, very powerful women who play football, but most teams seem to consist of 3 or 4 decent players but everyone else just filling gaps. You could probably count the number of really international class women playing in the UK on your fingers.

Every boy in Britain plays football from the age of four or five on the playground, at the park, on the street with his mates. That's a lot of potential footballers.

Now how many girls play football from that age?

 

[mattie g]

The gulf in football class is not physiological. The fastest men run 100 metres in 9.5 secs, the fastest women in 10.5. It's not a chasm. The infrastructure, the training, the amount of boys who want to be and believe they can become professional footballers compared to girls is thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands more. The pool is so much smaller, it's a different game at the moment, and needs time to grow and develop.

Look at women's soccer in the US compared to men's. It's no contest in terms of quality, and it's not primarily due to funding or history.

 

[riggi]

This thread title is very misleading.

 

[dynamoSpurs]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39027600

The thought of a mob of North London's finest girls going at each other.......actually, I'd better stop now

North London ladies vs south London ladies!

 

[Shadydan]

This thread title is very misleading.

Did you have an erection coming into this thread?

 

[riggi]

Did you have an erection coming into this thread?

I thought it was about carpet removal tbh.