"Tony W" <
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> "Graham" <
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> > Well I do have a problem with it ! We get enough of male football
without
> > being subjected to the female version.
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> Women's Football is a very fast growing sport. (For example, it is the fastest growing team sport
> in the UK). The match shown was the World Cup Final. Eurosport announced their intentions well in
> advance. If you were so minded you should have gone & got your dish before as they clearly
> indicated their intentions.
>
> Sorry, but cycling is a minority interest sport. Eurosport do a pretty
fair
> job in covering it -- maybe not as much as you would like but in
comparison
> with most other European broadcasters they show a lot of cycling and do appear to be committed to
> continuing to show cycling.
>
> To dismiss a sport because it is the women's version is simple prejudice.
It's simply correct, that's what it is. Womens sport is inferior to mens.
Graham
> Are you suggesting that they shouldn't show Nicole Cooke because they
could
> be showing men's tiddlywinks? OK, women's football is not yet at the
skill
> levels of the men's game but in other sports the women's game is as good
if
> not better -- women's tennis, for example, is much more skill and guile
than
> the men's version which now largely seems to involve smashing the ball so hard and fast that the
> camera cannot resolve it and the receiver (and
anyone
> behind the base line)just hopes and prays it will miss him.
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> T