Many football clubs are now working to become champions of gay players in a move to distance English football from the homophobic, racist, misogynist culture it is associated with. Yet one has to go and spoil it all by proudly announcing that
"It is bad enough with the incapable referees and linesmen we have, but if you start bringing in women, you have big problems.
"This is Championship football. This is not park football, so what are women doing here? It is tokenism, for the politically-correct idiots."
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Lovely.. Much has been said about sports culture but mainly in America.With jocks and college football huge over the pond there has been much feminist analysis of how sports masculinity is formed. The recent "alleged" rape of a black stripper in a fraternity house certainly exposed the very much pervasive exploitation of women, colour and class within frat and sports houses. However, there is little studied knowledge of hegemonic masculine behaviour in sports in the UK. Sports, especially football, do seem to foster an exclusive culture that is not only heterosexual but also white and male. Tenous link perhaps-but isn't it interesting that women are "free" to be pole-dancers and strip for nuts but when they enter the very male domain of English football it becomes all apparent as to who is actually "allowing" who to behave.
ajnspencer
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This is such a ridiculous story, as I said on my blog when I posted about it what does it matter if you have breasts or balls as to whether you know the game?
The fact is she's there because she's got the qualifications and the experience, the problem is too many people look at it and say "oh, she's only there to be politically correct" and put down her own abilities with the "anti-pc brigade" crud.
Gotta say she's lino'd my local teams and many other games before to no problems, as usual the vocal minority are tarring the sane majority.