fc Basel in sexism row
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Didn't invite their ladies team to their 125th anniversary gala dinner.

But in fairness, they let them sell raffle tickets for the tombola...
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Unless the ladies were put up as a prize in the raffle what's the problem? Was the ladies team founded 125 years ago? If not, it's not their anniversary. Yet another fuss about nothing by people with way too much time on their hands.

Anyone who claims women's football is equal to men's football should be ignored as they obviously know nothing about the game.

Totally agree. Can't be arsed with this equality nonsense in Sport, particularly from the BBC.

Women's football is largely pish and shouldn't get anything like the publicity it currently gets. If that makes me some sort of sexist dinosaur, then so be it. I'm still right though.

Anyone who claims women's football is equal to men's football should be ignored as they obviously know nothing about the game.

Ultimately it'll be up to women to support the women's game.

If women want to make the women's game equally attractive to sponsors and commercial TV, then women need to turn up in 40,000 crowds at every women's game and then watch those matches in the hundreds of thousands on telly. If they do that, the TV coverage they will get will be equal.

Until then, I'm not being sexist in saying that women's football shouldn't get equal treatment. TV didn't make men's football popular. It was men turning up that made it popular. Once it was popular, TV started covering it, not the other way round

Salford would annihilate the England ladies team.

Salford under 18s would annihilate the England ladies team

I think it is great women want to play football and they should be encouraged and given the opportunity to do so

I have no interest in watching or reading it though and no amount of force feeding by an agenda driven media will change that

Diverting funds from the men's game to subsidise it is wrong

If it is a social policy issue it should be government funded

But no sport was ever successful purely because of government support

There needs to be grass root participation and organic growth

This doesn't exist for women's football

Ultimately it'll be up to women to support the women's game.

If women want to make the women's game equally attractive to sponsors and commercial TV, then women need to turn up in 40,000 crowds at every women's game and then watch those matches in the hundreds of thousands on telly. If they do that, the TV coverage they will get will be equal.

Until then, I'm not being sexist in saying that women's football shouldn't get equal treatment. TV didn't make men's football popular. It was men turning up that made it popular. Once it was popular, TV started covering it, not the other way round

Excelent post

If they were any sort of red blooded men at all, they should have been the FIRST folk invited to the doo!

I’ll wager it was the first team’s WAGs that gad a say in it

The ones in the black shorts not lookers tbh

Well after a few bottles of red...