The uproar over Luis Rubiales’s behaviour laid bare the female players’ longstanding fight for equality; a battle that took a fresh twist this week after 15 players from the World Cup-winning squad were called-up despite their decision to boycott the national team until changes are made to the federation leadership.
In the UK, the FA banned women’s football in 1921 because the women were getting bigger attandances than the men.
System justification is an easy sport to play but a solid grasp of history is much more rewarding.
That logic is so laughable on its face. A couple charity matches drew a sizeable audience and raised money, so the butthurt FA decided to ban women games from being played on FA affiliated grounds …
Aside from this fantastic 53,000 people number only appearing in a player’s diary, the author couldn’t provide any evidence that the ban was due to the attention womens’ games were getting. Because there is no such evidence.
Of course, women’s football might possibly be bigger today if not for the bans, but going forth with unsubstantiated articles like that certainly doesn’t help.
Why are you making shit up?
What have I been making up? Perhaps read your own sources more critically.
It’s an illusion that the ban was motivated by jealousy. The only piece of evidence the article supplies is this:
Oral accounts of subjective judgments of affected players.
If there is better evidence, it’s not in the article. Feel free to provide it.
So, you’re assuming that article is the sole bit of history available? And also, feel confident to dismiss it despite the fact that you have never read any of the history you assume does not exist?
Come the fuck on.
Still not a shred of evidence that the FA banned women’s football due to jealousy. Good on that fan-site for keeping their memory alive but they don’t even cite sources so …
Well, they didn’t minute it. But it was very much part of the context.
But still, you’re arguing the toss over the FA’s motivations now, so you’ve accepted that you were originally talking out of your arse, and continued to talk out of your arse, for some unfathomably fragile reason.
Welp, still no source backing your initial claim that the ban was due to women’s matches outperforming men spectator-wise.
But you accept that they did, and that’s progress.