Random footie

[yuppie]

Looks like United are keen to go ahead with this

http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/29851156

obviously cant clash with any other tournament, and who would pay for it on TV?

[dan08]

Looks like United are keen to go ahead with this

http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/29851156

obviously cant clash with any other tournament, and who would pay for it on TV?

Sky televised a mid-season friendly between Real Madrid and PSG last season so i can see them doing the same for this one.

[Alviro Patterson]

That is utterly moronic and senseless babble. Women's sport is actively being discriminated against? Can you explain how so??

WSL average attendance...... 573 people per game
Women's Champions League Final.... 11,000 last year
Women's world cup final.... not a sell out despite wide marketing support

So we should give the WSL winners £21,000,000 because its fair? Just to let you know, the current 14 game/8 team format, in order just to generate that money through ticket sales to have that prize money amount to pay to a winner, and we are also talking in the fantasy world where all costs to the side don't exist, the ticket price for an average game would have to be £323. Not sure if you were charging that much money, you would get the incredibly high figure of 573 to each game.... Liverpool Ladies, the current dominant force in the WSL, charge £5.00 for the highest price ticket, £2.50 for the lowest. The bus to the ground costs more to see it, and still the numbers are low.

Assuming they get the average gate, paying £5, that's £20,055 income per year..... that wouldn't even pay a reserve team mans player for a week, or roughly what Luis Suarez was on a day. Can you tell me how the WSL expect to generate this prize money? Or do the FA have to pay 2,000 times the average season gate revenue just to make things equal?

Women don't earn as much because, lets not beat around the bush, NO ONE CARES AND NO ONE GOES TO GAMES!!!!

Its pure economics. To argue that rugby, cricket and football for women generates anywhere near the interest or money as the men's game is simple a lie, its not backed up by any reality.

You gotta come round to this PC world, sussex.

SP does have a point though, women's top flight football think they have a divine right to become full time professonals because of the money and publicity their male counterparts get. Womens Super League is a joke of an organisation, where money talks at the expense of traditional teams. Relegating Doncaster Rovers Belles after two matches and allowing an up and coming side in Lincoln City Ladies to become Notts County Ladies.

I've more respect for the women's cricket, whose national team have rightly earned their professional status through international success.

[Alviro Patterson]

I'll give you Athletics, Winter sports and the occasional game of tennis. All other women's sport is of massively minority interest and should have minimal tv coverage.

The bbc are into minority sports so they can have it all presented by Claire Balding and Hazel Irvine.

It's not misogyny it's plain fact that hardly anyone, men or women, are interested in watching womens football, rugby and cricket in this country. The main reason for that is that the standard is so poor compared to the men's game and sadly comparisons will always be made.

So many sports, so little time. Women's tennis and athletics work because they co-incide with the men's game. The England women's cricket team have adopted this approach since their 2009 success, often by playing matches before a men's game, eventually achieving professional status.

[braveneutral]

That is utterly moronic and senseless babble. Women's sport is actively being discriminated against? Can you explain how so??

WSL average attendance...... 573 people per game
Women's Champions League Final.... 11,000 last year
Women's world cup final.... not a sell out despite wide marketing support

So we should give the WSL winners £21,000,000 because its fair? Just to let you know, the current 14 game/8 team format, in order just to generate that money through ticket sales to have that prize money amount to pay to a winner, and we are also talking in the fantasy world where all costs to the side don't exist, the ticket price for an average game would have to be £323. Not sure if you were charging that much money, you would get the incredibly high figure of 573 to each game.... Liverpool Ladies, the current dominant force in the WSL, charge £5.00 for the highest price ticket, £2.50 for the lowest. The bus to the ground costs more to see it, and still the numbers are low.

Assuming they get the average gate, paying £5, that's £20,055 income per year..... that wouldn't even pay a reserve team mans player for a week, or roughly what Luis Suarez was on a day. Can you tell me how the WSL expect to generate this prize money? Or do the FA have to pay 2,000 times the average season gate revenue just to make things equal?

Women don't earn as much because, lets not beat around the bush, NO ONE CARES AND NO ONE GOES TO GAMES!!!!

Its pure economics. To argue that rugby, cricket and football for women generates anywhere near the interest or money as the men's game is simple a lie, its not backed up by any reality.

You gotta come round to this PC world, sussex.

SP does have a point though, women's top flight football think they have a divine right to become full time professonals because of the money and publicity their male counterparts get. Womens Super League is a joke of an organisation, where money talks at the expense of traditional teams. Relegating Doncaster Rovers Belles after two matches and allowing an up and coming side in Lincoln City Ladies to become Notts County Ladies.

I've more respect for the women's cricket, whose national team have rightly earned their professional status through international success.

Agreed, Doncaster was a disgrace.

[rich1uk]

this sounds like a fun game

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/29894003

ref sends the player off for defending himself against the fan which leads to a pitch invasion and the game abandoned

[sussexpob]

this sounds like a fun game

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/29894003

ref sends the player off for defending himself against the fan which leads to a pitch invasion and the game abandoned

How the hell could he send him off?

[Aidan11]

The ref wasn't Mark Clattenburg was it?

[Alviro Patterson]

Anything for a publicity stunt, i'd laugh if the boy eventually decides to support Stockport County.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/29736422

Man City will put a bid in, they will buy anyone.

Give him free merchandise and season ticket too sweeten the deal

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/29894631

[yuppie]

Interesting to read why the FA punished Ferdinand so hard for his twitter insult.

Seems they regard him as a role model, has previous with Ashley Cole Choc Ice tweet, and he has shown a lack of remorse over what he said.

http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/29916962

I would hope he is smart enough to know that a quick apology would have helped. Does he have advisors?

[Aidan11]

I thought Sky Sports 5 was purely a footy channel?

They're showing darts on there today.

[SaintPowelly]

I thought Sky Sports 5 was purely a footy channel?

They're showing darts on there today.

Nah, its the home of European Football, but not exclusive...they often show SkySportsNews on there.

[Aidan11]

(Own) Goal of the Season?

https://vine.co/v/OiWMvOQ9veK

[yuppie]

(Own) Goal of the Season?

https://vine.co/v/OiWMvOQ9veK

Wonder what his thought process is there. The Keepers of his line, dont put your foot through it, just place it

[SaintPowelly]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/29831433

Indonesian clubs PSS Sleman and PSIS Semarang are disqualified from the country's first division play-offs for scoring five own goals.

Sleman win the game 3-2, but a committee decided both sides attempted to lose in order to avoid a semi-final match with Borneo FC, a club rumoured to be backed by a local mafia.

The game was scoreless until the 86th minute before Sleman score two own goals in quick succession, Semarang then score three own goals and lose the tie