Women’s Football

[whelk]

7 minutes ago, Barsiem said:

I loved the pennos in the France / Aussie match.  Great drama!

Here's hoping England find a bit of form today.  If they can go up a couple of years we have a real shot at winning

Gets a lot of stick but standard of skill in that game looked pretty good.

[sydney_saint]

What a match! Absolutely buzzing after that! Fantastic atmosphere, and two teams pushing each other. I know some will say there were no goals, but was still a very entertaining game. Some really good penalties in there as well. Fowlers pen was stunning

Edited 12 August, 2023 by sydney_saint

[Saint_clark]

The amount Colombia are rolling around we're gonna see 20 minutes added on each half.

[austsaint]

2 minutes ago, sydney_saint said:

What a match! Absolutely buzzing after that! Fantastic atmosphere, and two teams pushing each other. I know some will say there were no goals, but was still a very entertaining game. Some really good penalties in there as well. Fowlers pen was stunning

I'm waiting for a train at nearby Roma St after seeing the game with wife and youngest daughter.  An extraordinary game which pulsated with drama and unending noise from the 50k crowd.  Women's Football is here to stay - it's mainstream and attracting crowds, media networks and advertising dollars.

As a Father of four daughters its wonderful to watch Women's sport - particularly Football and Cricket establish itself as genuinely entertaining and a symbol of greater recognition, respect and participation for girls and Women's sport.

[whelk]

Is Colombia’s Guzman related to Mexico’s ElChapo? Plays dirty and wouldn’t look out of place in the cartel.

[Picard]

Ireland's friendly Vs Colombia just before the World Cup was stopped halfway through to protect the Irish from physical damage .

[AlexLaw76]

What a crap goal to concede 

[Saint_clark]

You'll see some proper shithouse football from Colombia now. 

[Saint Billy]

Lots of slow paced faffing about by England's defence with really sloppy passing 

[Saint_clark]

1 minute ago, Saint Billy said:

Lots of slow paced faffing about by England's defence with really sloppy passing 

Not sure what you're watching, England have been a lot more direct this game.

[Polaroid Saint]

15 minutes ago, whelk said:

Is Colombia’s Guzman related to Mexico’s ElChapo? Plays dirty and wouldn’t look out of place in the cartel.

Been the best player on the pitch since coming on.

 

[Saint Billy]

6 minutes ago, Saint_clark said:

Not sure what you're watching, England have been a lot more direct this game.

Same game as you SC, we are not dealing with their press making us give the ball away too much. We look ragid.

[Saint_clark]

Get the fuck in Russo.

[Sheaf Saint]

Just now, Saint_clark said:

Get the fuck in Russo.

Cracking goal.

[Sheaf Saint]

Pretty shitty of Colombia not to give the ball back there after Bronze put it out of play so their player could get treatment. So much for the women's game being more sporting.

[Saint_clark]

Need an extra body in midfield. Get Toone off for Zelem.

[Sheaf Saint]

Well done England. No easy games at this stage of a WC and they did well to win that against a tough opponent.

[Jimmy_D]

We haven’t been at our most dominant this tournament, a large part of that is the players we’re missing, as well as how well other teams have progressed, but it’s huge credit to our resilience under Wiegman that we keep finding a way to win.

Caicedo is some player for Colombia.

[AlexLaw76]

More terrible keeping, this time by the (fit) Swedish Keeper

[suewhistle]

How unlike you to emphasise one of the usual criticisms of women's football, used by men who want to disparage it.

As for your sneer about safe spaces in the Solent Forum thread, personally I'm fine as long as I don't have to sit next to you, as you come over as unpleasantly as your avatar.

[skintsaint]

2 minutes ago, suewhistle said:

How unlike you to emphasise one of the usual criticisms of women's football, used by men who want to disparage it.

As for your sneer about safe spaces in the Solent Forum thread, personally I'm fine as long as I don't have to sit next to you, as you come over as unpleasantly as your avatar.

But it was really poor keeping? Not allowed to critique womens football?

 

[AlexLaw76]

33 minutes ago, suewhistle said:

How unlike you to emphasise one of the usual criticisms of women's football, used by men who want to disparage it.

As for your sneer about safe spaces in the Solent Forum thread, personally I'm fine as long as I don't have to sit next to you, as you come over as unpleasantly as your avatar.

Was I wrong about the goal-keeping standard?

[Lord Duckhunter]

1 hour ago, skintsaint said:

But it was really poor keeping? Not allowed to critique womens football?

 

That’s it. They want to be taken seriously, but then get all uppity when you analyse the keepers mistakes. 

[cloggy saint]

It was hardly a goalkeeping howler, you'll see worse every week in the PL.

[Turkish]

1 minute ago, cloggy saint said:

It was hardly a goalkeeping howler, you'll see worse every week in the PL.

And each of them will Highlighted on a number of occasions, why shouldn’t it be mentioned because it was a woman making it?

[bpsaint]

On 12/08/2023 at 12:58, Saint_clark said:

Get the fuck in Russo.

I’d like to

[sydney_saint]

3 hours ago, skintsaint said:

But it was really poor keeping? Not allowed to critique womens football?

 

Course you can. I've watched a tonne of games with mates and we praise when it is due, and criticise errors. Like we do every football match. It's when someone pops up the sole purpose of criticising it, you are gonna get called up with it. So stop being a baby.

[tdmickey3]

1 hour ago, Lord Duckhunter said:

That’s it. They want to be taken seriously, but then get all uppity when you analyse the keepers mistakes. 

You get uppity when women are mentioned in any context, probably because you are uncomfortable/awkward in their presence, like a spotty teenager

[benjii]

2 hours ago, bpsaint said:

I’d like to

Probably a spare-rib tickler, melon farmer, pussy footer, knicker picker.

[Master Bates]

We signed Linvoy Primus' daughter 🤣

[sadoldgit]

Wow! Cracking goal! Or crap goal keeping (according to Batman)? 😂

[Fabrice Fernandes no.1 fan]

10 minutes ago, sadoldgit said:

Wow! Cracking goal! Or crap goal keeping (according to Batman)? 😂

It was a great finish and a nice move. I think we'll do well if we can keep Russo and Toone playing closer together, and using Hemp to stretch them

[Sheaf Saint]

Brilliant finish from Toone. Great technique. Not many keepers - female or not - are stopping that.

[Colinjb]

That was a great strike by Sam Kerr. 

Bugger

[Yorkshire Saint]

2 minutes ago, Colinjb said:

That was a great strike by Sam Kerr. 

Bugger

CSDAJFU - nice hit !

[Colinjb]

Tenacity there. Great stuff Lauren Hemp. 1-2.

[AlexLaw76]

Touch of the Bednarek's there

[sfc4prem]

1 minute ago, AlexLaw76 said:

Touch of the Bednarek's there

What, not in any way being able to detect the presence of opposing attackers? Yeah, sounds about right 

[Sheaf Saint]

1 minute ago, sfc4prem said:

What, not in any way being able to detect the presence of opposing attackers? Yeah, sounds about right 

And utterly failing to prevent them from getting to the ball and shooting despite being goalside and being firm favourite to deal with it. 

[AlexLaw76]

She has to score that from the corner......or at least hit the target as there was the entire england team on the goal line it seemed

[AlexLaw76]

game over, 1-3

[Sheaf Saint]

GET IN!

[Turkish]

Decent move and finish that. Always good to beat the Aussies at anything 

[cloggy saint]

Great goal. I've been very impressed with the quality of football, compared to 10-15 years ago it's unrecognisable. 

[AlexLaw76]

Just now, cloggy saint said:

Great goal. I've been very impressed with the quality of football, compared to 10-15 years ago it's unrecognisable. 

it is pretty good when you get to the business end, as you would expect.

No idea how good Spain are, but England have a great chance of winning

[sfc4prem]

What a finish. Russo excellent there, but Hemp made that. Superb play.

[Turkish]

2 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

it is pretty good when you get to the business end, as you would expect.

No idea how good Spain are, but England have a great chance of winning

The group stages were awful with teams that would struggle against Tyro league sides but the knock out stages have been better. 

[whelk]

Anyone else fantasise about scoring for England and being mobbed with all those women jumping on you?

[Turkish]

1 minute ago, whelk said:

Anyone else fantasise about scoring for England and being mobbed with all those women jumping on you?

Just Russo and Daly would do for me 

[trousers]

I might have to start giving a sh*t about this women's football malarkey at this rate...