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the americans watching emma hayes failing after spending months thinking she would be the answer to all of their problems

lost cup final to arsenal ✅

knocked out by man utd ✅

out of the uwcl (again) thanks to barca ✅

man city have the chance to do the funniest thing in emma hayes last season

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lost cup final to arsenal ✅

knocked out by man utd ✅

out of the uwcl (again) thanks to barca ✅

man city have the chance to do the funniest thing in emma hayes last season

#send her out trophyless and then keep her trophyless at the uswnt #two birds one stone and all that

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I’m a big fan of Lauren James and have been for, literally, years. But it’s so wild to see people unironically defend her in every single situation like she isn’t purposely and continuously these creating situations for herself when they just don't need to happen

#Lauren James if she could control herself? insane #people wouldn’t question your attitude if you stopped act questionably

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the thought of emma hayes leaving chelsea with a trophyless season is the stuff dreams are made of and i hope to god it happens

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I just don't understand the logic of wanting smaller goals and fields. And for me it's not about sexism or the sport being the same or anything. The question for me is: what problem does that solve? I think anytime you want to do something er should start at identifying an issue and than thinking about a change that could solve it. Your other examples make sense: problem: women have more non-contact injuries solution: making women specific cleats problem: women are at greater risk of concussion solution: hard to say but possible ones: getting rid of headers or limiting their use, greater punishments for high elbows, knees and feet in congested areas. But I don't know what problem changing field and goal sizes solve, I think we have to start with the problem, specially because any changes comes with downsides, some tenporary and others permanent. With the goal, temporarily we might see more post collisions while players adapt to the smaller space, longer term we may have fewer goals and more draws, what is the upside to balance that?

there is a quality gap in women’s football and I don’t think anyone would (or could) deny that. there’s a gap in men’s football too and high scorelines aren’t restricted to any particular league or country. sometimes things go wrong and really weird things happen. a top side will have 6 put past them totally out of the blue, but they’re far less of an anomaly in women’s football and you can all but guarantee the winner when a top 3 side plays...anyone else

I don’t see less goals and more draws in a game that currently has lots of goals and lots of (one sided) wins as a bad thing. I think draws more often between say, arsenal and chelsea, is a fair trade off if it means bristol city aren’t getting 48 goals put past them in 17 games (some of those stats are even more dramatic outside of the wsl, I’m just using the wsl as the example because it’s the league I’m closest to following)

I fully acknowledge and accept that goalkeepers aren’t always to blame for goals and smaller goals aren’t magically going to make the teams at the bottom suddenly able to compete because the issue is so much bigger. for me the problem is parity between clubs in almost every division in any country, and whilst there isn’t one singular quick or easy fix to it, I don’t think it’s out of the question that smaller goals might be able to help with that. having a smaller goal would (probably) mean there’s less of them . having a smaller ball would (probably) mean less concussions and faster passes giving you a more fluid and exciting game

it always has to be about balance, IE how do you stop the top 5 or so teams in the world from stockpiling world class players and therefore being able to score 50, 70, 100 goals a season without punishing them for being the relatively few clubs who are actually willing and able to invest? the only league I can think of where the parity is not so much of an issue, though often does still lead to the same handful of teams leading the table and winning tropes, is the nwsl. but that’s because they’ve had very specific rules which europe has never really had a willingness or desire to emulate. I also think it should be about fun. football is a sport, but it’s also a game. it’s supposed to be fun and personally seeing some massive one sided victories or goals that could have been saved kind of….isn’t. smaller fields are unpractical and doesn’t translate well to grassroots, but a game with smaller goals, smaller fields and a lighter ball I think could bring hugely exciting and really enjoyable games

I love football. I want it to be good. I know with the disastrous implementation of VAR there’s, to some extent, an attitude of “just leave football alone” but I think there are some changes which could genuinely be fun. I remember when perez got slated for suggesting a 60 minute match instead, granted his suggestion was for monetary benefit, but I also think in hindsight that one could have been fun too. and as someone who sits through 100 minutes of men’s football dross every Saturday, and I just think football could be more fun if we, collectively, weren’t so resistant to change. football is old and old is great, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be better or that we at least shouldn’t entertain new ideas

#I think there probably should be a more equal spread of national team players across their domestic league #but the only way to really do that would be by force. and then you’re the FA paying the wages of a player because the club won’t #I think there probably should be a stronger cap on foreign national players #but then you’re missing out on the repetitional and excitement boost of having those players in the league #I think there probably should be a mandatory number of u23 domestic players in a match day squad but then you’re risking lowering quality #I just think football has a huge parity issue and not immediately obvious or easy way of fixing it #I can’t see the whole structure of football changing #the only way these huge changes occur is if they happen in every league at the same time #IE a restriction to foreign nationals in England doesn’t work if they’re all just gonna go to Spain instead #spain making it mandatory to have a national team player in every squad doesn’t work if they’e all going to leave for England #but if Fifa said actually no all of the goals are going to be made smaller in every one of our mandated competitions then it’s more univers

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I don’t really care about goal size. It’s true that relative to men’s keepers, the goal is larger, but who cares? I don’t think the goal of woso is to exactly replicate the on the field action of men’s football. We still get good goals and some very good saves as is. If we get a few more games that end 3-2 or something because of height differentials, that’s fine by me.

I agree that we don’t need to replicate men’s football, which is also why I think we should have the conversations about potential changes without feeling restricted or attacked. I actually don’t feel particularly strongly about the topic, I just think it’s something that isn’t unreasonable to consider. it sounds weird because football is football, but I don’t necessarily want women’s football to just be men’s football…but with women

we’re seeing football boots now start to be designed specifically for women because all of the research and data is based on men and doesn’t actually match how women’s feet are shaped. lots of clubs/nations don’t have white shorts anymore because of periods. the olympics isn’t a u23 competition. etc etc

there are really popular differences that directly deviate from men’s football, but if you start to talk about goal size, or a little less high profile/controversial, football weight/size, then people react differently

I don’t care about men. I don’t care if they’ll use it as a stick to further beat women’s sports. the ones that do are the ones that were going to do it anyway. I just want women’s football to be better for women and nothing that might help with that should be inherently off the table. but ultimately they’re all things that might just get self corrected….eventually (taller girls will just start playing, women will get more training on headers. more research will be done into all injuries. pitch conditions will improve across the board. the quality players will rise and lessen gaps between teams. etc etc)

#for ref: the football weight/size is related to.a (I think) 2018 study showing that heading does more damage to women than men #and female players suffer from concussions at a higher rate than male plaeyrs #answered

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The team’s pretty girls need to be at least some lesbians. Downfall came when Christen Press left the team

but are they? it doesn’t seem like it but then again I am very bad at knowing stuff about players persona lives because I don’t care

everyone who wasn’t american kind of knew it would be bad when the old guard all retired, but I don’t think we expected their replacements to also be straight girls. the ratio….doesn’t feel right

#answered

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the uswnt national team used to be run by lesbians and now it might be run by pretty straight girls some with questionable personal beliefs and that’s why they’ll never be successful again. cut the cameras. game over

#the rise of heterosexuality and the decline of the uswnt are inexplicably linked

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It is an unfemenist opinion, female goalkeepers have been asked forever if they should make the goals smaller and have rejected it at every turn because they say it not necessary, it would not make the games more exciting and of course it would promote sexist degradation. Also smaller feilds would just keep them out of the bigger stadiums. It can only work against the progress of womens sport

women are, mostly, shorter. it’s not a slight against the standard of goalkeeping and i’m not suggesting it comes at the expense of constantly trying to raise the standard in other ways

there’s always going to be misogynists and people who don’t like women’s sport, and they don’t need a reason (like smaller goals) to degrade and belittle women. they’re going to do it regardless. they do it now. they don’t need reasons so we shouldn’t be afraid that we might give them one

i can take or leave pitch sizes because the infrastructure (IE grassroots) will never adapt to anything unless the men do it first

but i believe a conversation without misogynistic views or without an alternative agenda should be had about the size of goals 🤷‍♀️

#the (mostly) minimum height for a male gk is 6’ #that’s not the minimum. or even average. height of female gk

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who is the biggest cunt in football and why is it emma hayes

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who is more tired? a victorian peasant child in the workhouse or a north london pyshio? hard to say

arsenal pyshio must be the most overworked and underpaid job role in all of england

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arsenal pyshio must be the most overworked and underpaid job role in all of england

#arsenal women

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my unpopular and probably unfeminist opinion is that the pitch and goals should be made smaller in women’s football or that we should at least be able to have the conversation about what the impact would be without it being misrepresented (or disguised) as a criticism

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emma hayes can suck a giant fucking dick with her “players having relationships is inappropriate” when she herself was rumoured to have a thing with a player and after she literally outed alex scott because she knew it was the only way to get kelly smith to come too. fuck you, fuck your ancestors, fuck your club. bellend

#for the record I don’t think it’s a great idea to date a teammate just on a practical level that you might break up and it’ll be awkward #but literally shut the fuck up #people date colleagues pretty frequently #and after you (allegedly) did it yourself and (confirmedly) tried to exploit it for your own benefit — double shut the fuck up

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big fan of people looking at high attendances in women’s football and immediately going down the “well it’s because the tickets are cheaper!” route as if it’s a bad thing, instead of asking why the men’s prices are so extortionate

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you ever think about how football is kinda dumb though? sitting here in the freezing cold laughing to myself whilst watching a bunch of grown men wearing primary colours kick a ball around but if they don’t win then it ruins the whole week. wtf is that???? lame

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we got been bamboozled nvm

sam kerr did what now