Beardhidesboy64 wrote:
Just feel sorry for the girls that wanna play footbsll to be honest and the constant shit they have to put up with from men like joey barton and others that dont want to see the game progress and feel like its a violation of their rights if they are exposed to it.
You can see it earlier in this post, you can see it when a former professional female footballer at the top of their game tries to break into the mens game after retirement etc. whilst my idea of humour is not well recieved and a bit muddled and eccentric my point is more that sterotypes often fit. I just think that its unfair that the battle the eomens game go through just tk do something they love that weve taken for granted. We sit there as a fanbase and say we sont turn up, tear up our season tickets and whatever because of the state of things when it isnt si bad snd the womens team would die for their teammates to get to play in front of 10k each week, be paid 5k a week and experience the highs we have.
I have a daughter whose madly into her football but she doesn't really get to play at school like the boys do. The mk dons youth teams play at the stadium in front of small crowds why cant the womens team? Its viewed as a seperate entity, same name but completely different ownership model. Wheres the funding for them? Look st what wrexham are doing to fund their girls. I will continue to revert back to look at wrexham because they are doinv what we should have been or should be doing. How much would it really cost the board tk fund a semi pro team? Not much in the grand scheme of things. Wheres the ambition and equality tk grow our mk dons ladies?
Every sport / version of it would love to have the global appeal and huge fanbase of men's football! Just like every music group would love to be as big as The Beatles, and every TV show and film would love huge viewing figures, etc.
But it's not something you demand or get given as a right - it's something that's gained out of enough genuine interest and amongst competition with many others who also want that. The men's game started out as working class factory workers with no existing support, league structure, grounds, etc. It became what it has over time out of people being a lot more interested in it than in all other sports - sports that would also dearly love to have that level of fan and media interest but still have nowhere near it well over a century later!
I've no doubt the women's game would love that as well - but it's about putting the time in to build a
genuine interest level and fan base, not just expecting it to be miraculously gifted overnight. As I said, its a tough battle amongst many sports and forms of entertainment for fans, airtime, viewing figures, etc. They're all as much 'deserving' and it's just a matter of genuine interest, supply and demand, etc. That's what decides what thrives and survives. What people have a genuine interest in, they'll invest time and money to follow. What they haven't, they won't. You can't start accusing people of all kinds of things just because they don't share the same interest in a version of a sport that you do!