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da. oh right yeah, completely forgot she was going too. are there any other departures that could happen this summer? i wonder if a bunch of them are trying to get out now.
The women's team is the only shred of credibility that lying, cheating excuse for a football club has.
There's been a distinct lack of coverage and push back from women's football media about the digusting way City are trying to shame the PL into not going forward with the charges.
I hate to do the 'imagine if it was other Club X saying this' thing but really, imagine it was United in this position and they were explicitly saying they'd basically drop the women's team if they faced any sort of punishment for their wrongdoings. All the journalists would have their opinion pieces at the ready and would be amplifying the message ten-fold. Even the news about Nielsen and staff leaving has been presented as-is with no follow-up.
Bizarre sort of protection City gets.
DA Women's football has a nasty habit of underreporting the stuff that takes any shine off public perceptions of the sport doing brilliantly. It also has a nasty habit of bigging itself up as a moral compass but then being shamefully hypocritical if the mood suits. Remember all that objection to Saudi sponsorship of the World Cup? The same people jump to write puff pieces praising Newcastle's attendances. You can bet they're all salivating in anticipation of the day that club gets into the WSL, there will be so many headlines about records being smashed and welcome investment and absolutely none about what the Saudi's are still doing to women and activists who dare ally themselves.
Until yesterday, hardly any journalist or pundit or whatever were calling out City's actions. Only about four or five were actually doing their job and calling a spade a spade. The rest were being cowardly brown nosers. The tide has turned now but there are Johnny-come-latelys everywhere. The women's football journos will be arriving even later, if they do at all. Never seen one of them draw a link between the status of City's women's team and the club's methods of operation, and I very much doubt any will now start questioning if that team should be where it is or what happens to the WSL & women's football on the whole if City are left free to carry on with their cheating. Just like none of them will start writing articles about what Newcastle's women's team is really all about. Just like none of them wrote articles about what bankrolled Chelsea's trophy haul, though nobody at all touched this club until Ukraine getting invaded made it okay to discuss all things Russia.
Sanders, Batte, Garry et al. counting down the days until Earps leaves United for free so then they really have something to sink their teeth into and write about.
Sorry for the levity, just seems like the (at times rightful) pile on of United is never matched in other clubs. Things really aren't all that peachy in a lot of WSL clubs.
I remember someone once doing a 'state of the WSL' hit piece where they ripped into every club pointing out the biggest shames. 90% of it was either unsubstantiated or outdated in that the clubs had already improved conditions long before the article was cobbled together.
The thing with journalism and women's football in England is that it comes in two distinct flavours: you get the articles from the 'favourable bubble' lot, who see it as their job to help promote the game rather than expose its failings, and then you get the naysayer journos, who only ever write negative articles exposing the failings for the sake of being able to shit on women's sport.
With the former, sometimes players will be so high profile or issues so great that they just have to draw attention to a bad story, it's unavoidable. They won't enjoy making someone look unfavourable but the articles have to be written. United fall into this unfortunate area, it's the downside to having senior England internationals in your team.
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da. oh right yeah, completely forgot she was going too. are there any other departures that could happen this summer? i wonder if a bunch of them are trying to get out now.
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The women's team is the only shred of credibility that lying, cheating excuse for a football club has.
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There's been a distinct lack of coverage and push back from women's football media about the digusting way City are trying to shame the PL into not going forward with the charges.
I hate to do the 'imagine if it was other Club X saying this' thing but really, imagine it was United in this position and they were explicitly saying they'd basically drop the women's team if they faced any sort of punishment for their wrongdoings. All the journalists would have their opinion pieces at the ready and would be amplifying the message ten-fold. Even the news about Nielsen and staff leaving has been presented as-is with no follow-up.
Bizarre sort of protection City gets.
[/quote]DA Women's football has a nasty habit of underreporting the stuff that takes any shine off public perceptions of the sport doing brilliantly. It also has a nasty habit of bigging itself up as a moral compass but then being shamefully hypocritical if the mood suits. Remember all that objection to Saudi sponsorship of the World Cup? The same people jump to write puff pieces praising Newcastle's attendances. You can bet they're all salivating in anticipation of the day that club gets into the WSL, there will be so many headlines about records being smashed and welcome investment and absolutely none about what the Saudi's are still doing to women and activists who dare ally themselves.
Until yesterday, hardly any journalist or pundit or whatever were calling out City's actions. Only about four or five were actually doing their job and calling a spade a spade. The rest were being cowardly brown nosers. The tide has turned now but there are Johnny-come-latelys everywhere. The women's football journos will be arriving even later, if they do at all. Never seen one of them draw a link between the status of City's women's team and the club's methods of operation, and I very much doubt any will now start questioning if that team should be where it is or what happens to the WSL & women's football on the whole if City are left free to carry on with their cheating. Just like none of them will start writing articles about what Newcastle's women's team is really all about. Just like none of them wrote articles about what bankrolled Chelsea's trophy haul, though nobody at all touched this club until Ukraine getting invaded made it okay to discuss all things Russia.
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Sanders, Batte, Garry et al. counting down the days until Earps leaves United for free so then they really have something to sink their teeth into and write about.
Sorry for the levity, just seems like the (at times rightful) pile on of United is never matched in other clubs. Things really aren't all that peachy in a lot of WSL clubs.
[/quote]I remember someone once doing a 'state of the WSL' hit piece where they ripped into every club pointing out the biggest shames. 90% of it was either unsubstantiated or outdated in that the clubs had already improved conditions long before the article was cobbled together.
The thing with journalism and women's football in England is that it comes in two distinct flavours: you get the articles from the 'favourable bubble' lot, who see it as their job to help promote the game rather than expose its failings, and then you get the naysayer journos, who only ever write negative articles exposing the failings for the sake of being able to shit on women's sport.
With the former, sometimes players will be so high profile or issues so great that they just have to draw attention to a bad story, it's unavoidable. They won't enjoy making someone look unfavourable but the articles have to be written. United fall into this unfortunate area, it's the downside to having senior England internationals in your team.