Women Pundits

pre Madonna wrote: I think the biggest problem is that the whole thing has been made massively complicated in the name of style over substance. Referees, four-strong panels and inane questions mean we get very little tactical insight or well researched responses, (which, in fairness, could be why people were surprised at Aluko's response, it was highly unusual for this World Cup!) and end up with lots of 'bantz' and bad jokes. I have said it many times, but I don't understand why the bigger names are automatically seen as ideal pundits, I would argue as to why they would have to be former players at all. I would much rather listen to Honigstein, Auclair, Wilson or Marcotti than Rio or Wrighty.

Ok i'll respond properly so.

The more we see of Alex Scott the better

The  good old days of the 70's before PC went mad.

Sweet baby Jesus, fckin women causing trouble ever since that eve bitch gave Adam a hard time about eating the apple with her, bitch 

This RTE panel is a bit grim.I suppose the next time this many unionists will be tuned into RTE we'll have a united Ireland

Roberto Baggio wrote: bhob wrote: Ok i'll respond properly so.   For years now we've been subjected to substandard commentating on matches by ex professionals and males alike yet we've just become accustomed to it. Now for once we're having ex professional women in the studio giving their thoughts on matches, which for me will break down barriers around the womens game in general. There are a lot of cavemen still out there that think women can't play football or know f**k all about football, sure how could they they're only women.   It's a step in the right direction having female footballers or ex pro's adding their thoughts and insight in analysis during and after matches.   "I know there are plenty of male pundits/commentators that are fairly sh*te too, but I'm sick of this need in modern society to fill up certain quotas for the sake of it."   So it's acceptable to have sh*te male commentators that complete a panel but not females because they're filling up certain quotas?    Some of the women pundits/commentators are good. Some of them are sh*te. Same with the men, good ones and crap/annoying ones.   However, I've totally no interest in women's football. Or women's rugby, GAA, camogie, boxing or many other sports for that matter. Not sure what barriers they want to break down, but I never see the day when I will sit and watch any of those women's sports above. Does that make me sexist?

@Roberto Baggio
Thanks for volunteering the reasons for some of your sports choices.
Your choices are Gender-specific, you divide Sports by Gender and make the choices based on that.
FIFA also divide the sport up and with Gender it's Football and Women's Football which let's more malicious people off the hook and devalue Women's Football. Print Media content follow the FIFA labels with headings in their pages. Perhaps TV studios also identify their staff as Pundit and Woman Pundit.

The Universities Governing Body FISU, have Women's and Men's Football attempt at equality by having both competing at same event World University Games. Football at Universiade

30th Universiade, Naples and Campania, 02- 14th July 2019 (Football always starts one day before Opening).
http://www.fisu.net/sport-events/summer-universiades-events/30th-summer-universiade
You'd be very welcome, very good chance you may meet your namesake.

If you were derogatory based on Gender or disrupted the flow of information about an event based on the Gender of participants or providing resources for one sports event but not another based on Gender (eg not surrendering the remote control when a Women's Football match is on tv) that would be sexist. Because it's taking resources away based on Gender.

Edited by UCDFAN - 18 Jun 2018 at 4:02pm

Don't understand the big deal over the women pundits, they have done the basic minimum research needed and just reading things off Wikipedia will get a bit boring soon when the novelty wears off. 

Roberto Baggio wrote: another unpopular opinion - Martin O’Neill isn’t a good pundit. Repeats himself a lot, says things like “I tell you what” a lot and comes out with a lot of cliches