FIFA Women's World Cup 2019

Historical note:

not since World War 1 has women's football been so popular.

Article, quote:

The coal disputes of 1921 and 1926 saw more sides develop in response to localized deprivation: teams included the Soup Canteen Ladies; Blaydon Ladies’ FC and the Marley Hill Spankers.

As a result of this success, the FA ‘banned’ women’s teams from playing football on League and Association-affiliated grounds from 5 December 1921. The FA ruled that too much money had been absorbed in expenses by players and the game was ‘unsuitable’ for women. There was no evidence that serious injury had been sustained by a woman, except a report that Florrie Redford (1900-1986) had once been bitten on the ankle by a dog while playing."


The ban was lifted in 1971.


Pictured: Blyth Spartans (Northumberland), I'm not sure if they always wore hats while playing?

Nice bit of humour from Alex Morgan, one from the Basil Fawlty book, shame DM just uses it to rile people up.

We are British we supposed to be able to take a joke! we've got nothing to prove we've had an Empire and there was the Boston Tea Party, we should have some affection at come back from our friends The Americans.

If Israel scored against Germany and did the Nazi salute with finger under the nose, would that be funny? I mean, I'd say they're entitled to keep reminding their ex-oppressors of things, but such a celebration does somewhat politicise the game with historical baggage. It's more a taunt than a celebration.

it's tea!!
We are a nation of tea drinkers we took tea around the world not nazism. Tea is a civilized , enjoyable pastime. Apart from the fact that the workers in India and Sri Lanka don't get paid enough it's nothing to be ashamed of.

Tbh I'm not 'outraged' as the media like to keep using that word. But it clearly was against specifically England, rather than a celebration of scoring a goal to put her country ahead in the semi-final. It was about her opponents rather than her country, her team or herself.

The thing that annoyed me more was whoever interviewed Houghton after the match. She answers a question including that she blames herself for missing the penalty (I'd 'blame' the players with more practice scoring who didn't step up, but that's another issue), and then the interviewer goes "Oooh, she's upset about that, I'll get her to talk more about it on national television and hopefully she cries!" and asks her to expand specifically on that. No reassurance it's not her fault or whatever, just picking at open wounds.

My threads on TSR have higher interest than this tournament

Just because someone can score in open play, doesn’t mean that they are particularly good at penalties.

To say that the scorers from open play should be taking them leads me to believe that you don’t watch football on a regular basis.

Tbf you sound like an idiot. If you look at all the clubs in the premier league a significant number of their man goal scorers aren’t the main penalty taker.

Final in progress now Netherlands holding their own, their keeper just made a good save as well.

Can't really see USA losing in the end though tbh.