Loving the ladies football, or as I call it ‘football world cup’!
England 1 up, good job as France are winning as well. 
They’re playing well tonight - good movement and passing.
Was flicking between the cricket and the World Cup. But 2-0 and looking good.
Up the women!
Through to the knock out stages, where we have to play Germany. I think that it could be the end of the road for England.
Shame France scored so many to top the group! We would have had a great chance against Norway!
Um, Isn’t that like saying Breaking Bad looks good compared to Rosie and Jim? 
Not sure why as runners up in the group, we are playing Norway, then runners up to Germany in their group! Don’t the group winners normally play the runners up from another group.
So we may progress through a knock out game for the first time… Maybe.
Didn’t see the game, but highlights look great…
This World Cup has a bit of a buzz about it. C’mon England!
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It certainly does, I am really enjoying it so far. Some pretty good stuff on show. The woman’s game has come on so much over the last few years.
Not sure why it is not just called the football World Cup, as the ‘men’s’ is not called the men’s World Cup, but hey! Time it will only be a matter of time.
Yeah, it’s annoying but even I feel into the trap (feeling the need to differentiate) on the title of this thread. Fixed now though!
Seems a long way off, but I’m deffo backing JWP to be in the squad at least, and possible starter for Russia 2018.
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Good work Lou. If you say you watching the World Cup, all football fans will know if is either the men’s or the woman tournament. We know that this year is not a men’s World Cup, so if someone says, are you watching the football World Cup, they will all know it is the woman. So it is the World Cup.
Pit is ok to say under 21’s though.
What also annoys me is that there is a sports personality of the year and then they have a separate women’s one! This needs and will change over time, not for just the good of football, but the good of everyday inequality.
Anyway, back to the World Cup, come on England!
I agree. It is annoying that the British public cannot recognise the merits of women’s football in its own right. Comparing the two sports misses the point completely and as Aluko said in her article yesterday, it’s ignorance that causes people to deride something that is such a positive influence on women. In a world of photoshopped and anorexic models, sport (and in particular football) can have such a positive impact.
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Agreed hypo. Lot of ignorance bout this. I heard someone say last night that, “if they had bros in goal, every game would finish 0-0”. Like that matters! Then he wouldn’t shut up about how much Kirby looks like Nick Barmby, then he was complaining that Duggan doesn’t look anywhere near as hot as her promotional material. He was missing the point of it entirely! In the end I had to say, listen, brain, if you don’t stop being chauvinist, I’m gonna take you up to bed.
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After England’s first game bored me to death I didnt bother with the second game. Watched most of last nights though and it was so much better.
There should be a distinction between a boring game of women’s football rather than calling all women’s football boring.
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Originally posted by @Sfcsim
What also annoys me is that there is a sports personality of the year and then they have a separate women’s one! This needs and will change over time, not for just the good of football, but the good of everyday inequality.
Anyway, back to the World Cup, come on England!
Ummm, haven’t plenty of women won Sports Personality of the Year?
From WikiPedia
Three people have won the award more than once: boxerHenry Cooper and the Formula One drivers Nigel Mansell and Damon Hill have each won twice.[3]Snooker player Steve Davis has finished in the top three a record five times.[4]
Princess Anne (1971) and her daughter Zara Phillips (2006) are the only award-winners to be members of the same family. The oldest recipient of the award is Dai Rees, who won in 1957 aged 44. Ian Black, who won the following year, aged 17, is the youngest winner.[3]Torvill and Dean, who won in 1984, are the only non-individual winners of the award, so than in the 61 years of the award there have been 62 recipients. Of these 13 have been female.[5] 17 sporting disciplines have been represented; athletics has the highest representation, with 17 recipients. Counting Torvill and Dean separately, there have been 49 English winners of the award, five Scottish,[6] four Welsh,[7] three Irish,[8][9] and one Manx.
13 female recipient in 61 years, that just under 1 in 5, not bad if you ask me and certainly not sexist.
Just cos women’s conversation & tv choices are boring, ppl seem to think it’s a truism that can be equally applied to sport. They couldn’t be more wrong!
No, but there is one. It does happen a lot. Open for all award and then a women’s one! Saying this there is never a separate mans one, could imagine!