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Anyone been watching? Entertaining stuff so far this week.

England v Scotland a good game so far, open and maybe not as physical as the men’s game but they’re getting stuck in. 

VAR penalty caused some debate amongst commentators and pundits, I thought it was a pretty obvious one. Yes little time to react but arm was in an unnatural position and under new rules is a pen.

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Definitely hit her arm and her arm was making her body unnaturally bigger. That’s the new definition of a pen/free kick for handball

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 You can argue the new ruling is wrong, can’t argue the awarding of that pen under said new ruling

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Quality is pretty poor, I’ll keep an eye on how England get on but won’t be watching many matches if they’re anything like this

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11 minutes ago, SwindonCanary said:

Where does she put her hands when jumping ?

 

The ruling suggests somewhere it doesn’t make her body ‘unnaturally bigger’. You see it more and more in the men’s game, players with both hands behind their back. New ruling will give some harsh decisions but that’s the new rule and all clubs/countries will be aware of it. Don’t give the ref/VAR the chance to penalise you

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8 minutes ago, FenwayFrank said:

Quality is pretty poor, I’ll keep an eye on how England get on but won’t be watching many matches if they’re anything like this

I bet you will if Hope Solo continues to commentate.

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11 minutes ago, TIL 1010 said:

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That’s really demeaning to the women’s game. They’re professional footballers just like their male counterparts.

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46 minutes ago, TIL 1010 said:

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Don't really see anything wrong with showing this - she is a beautiful footballer - and this is a photo she has posed for - no one made her do it. Seems like men complaining on behalf of women for the sake of it. I wonder if a woman put a picture on here of Mario Vrancic posing in just his shorts, would other women stand up and complain?

 

 

 

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28 minutes ago, lake district canary said:

Don't really see anything wrong with showing this - she is a beautiful footballer - and this is a photo she has posed for - no one made her do it. Seems like men complaining on behalf of women for the sake of it. I wonder if a woman put a picture on here of Mario Vrancic posing in just his shorts, would other women stand up and complain?

 

 

 

so in the various threads about our players over the course of the season how many times have people said 'yeah i bet you're gonna carry on watching norwich while vrancic is playing' with a picture of him in his shorts? this is virtually the only thread about womens football and it didn't even get a page of replies before someone implied that it's worth watching because one of the pundits is fit?

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18 minutes ago, jk147 said:

so in the various threads about our players over the course of the season how many times have people said 'yeah i bet you're gonna carry on watching norwich while vrancic is playing' with a picture of him in his shorts? this is virtually the only thread about womens football and it didn't even get a page of replies before someone implied that it's worth watching because one of the pundits is fit?

I dunno, i just think people reacting badly to Til's post are being a bit too pc.  

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I would imagine the majority of posters here are straight men. They like looking at girls, not Mario with his shirt off.

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12 minutes ago, jk147 said:

yep.

What is your point, you plainly think I am wrong, yet you haven't explained why, other than to imply it is wrong to find a woman attractive and say so?   Maybe there are more men than women on here, not that it makes any difference, but if there were more women posting, maybe they would not object to a photo of a scantily dressed male. if i could be bothered I'd look back and find the posts I remember where Grant Holt was idolised from a female point of view and then after that, Lafferty (believe it or not).

 

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I’ve just Googled for Hope Solo images. None of the first 200 I found featured her in a bikini.

Women don’t have to be virtually naked to be attractive.

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8 minutes ago, lake district canary said:

What is your point, you plainly think I am wrong, yet you haven't explained why, other than to imply it is wrong to find a woman attractive and say so?   Maybe there are more men than women on here, not that it makes any difference, but if there were more women posting, maybe they would not object to a photo of a scantily dressed male. if i could be bothered I'd look back and find the posts I remember where Grant Holt was idolised from a female point of view and then after that, Lafferty (believe it or not).

 

i don't really want to argue with you as we clearly disagree on it. I just think that when people are athletes at the highest level it is poor to reduce them to a base level of attractiveness. Hope Solo has 202 caps two Olympic gold medals and a world cup to her name. The point is there are 1000's of threads about football and you are talking about grant holt and lafferty who have not played for the club in years, the first thread in a very long time on womens football took less than 10 posts for it to reference attractiveness. I do not think it is wrong to view women as attractive, the perception that male athletes are viewed as athletes first and female athletes are viewed as females first is damaging. I think if you scroll through every thread on pinkun about womens football there will probably be a post about the attractiveness of the players. I imagine you probably disagree with everything I've said here so I'm happy to agree to disagree. 

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20 minutes ago, M the Canary said:

She poised like that for people to admire her body and we are obliging 

Crack on then (or crack one off if you want).

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1 hour ago, lake district canary said:

I dunno, i just think people reacting badly to Til's post are being a bit too pc.  

and didn't take long, the first refuge of the bigot

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Just as well TIL didn’t post the naked pictures that Hope Solo happily posed for.........

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I'd enjoy women's football more if the standard of goalkeeping wasn't so shocking tbh. So yeah, I was always a fan of Fran Kirby myself. Not so much these days but she was lovely.

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