RainhamGill - 20/7/2017 13:06
1) Am I right in thinking that the argument here is that women's football "isn't as fast or skilled as the men's game so I'm not interested"?.
That may well be the case, but remember that most of the time women's teams are picked and set up to play against other women's teams, not other men's teams. If you opened the competition up completely then yes you would probably get the women's teams losing heavily to the men's teams...
2) at first, but over time (after quite a few years probably) you would see an improvement in results, because they would realise that there needs to be more emphasis on physical strength and speed in order to complete with their male counterparts.
But like I said that's not likely to happen: At the moment the competitions are kept separate and that's ok with me.
3) My point is that I don't think the women's England team (or indeed the Gills team) need to demonstrate that they are on a par with men's teams in terms of speed, strength and skill just to get our attention and our support.