
Women know nothing about football. It’s not that they can’t understand the offside rule. It’s not even that they can’t talk about the game. The reality is that they have something missing. It’s like they don’t have a soul. Imagine an American talking about football. You’re beginning to get the picture. Americans don’t even use the same terms. But women are actually worse than Americans. They are the fifth column. You might think their involvement helps get more women interested and that might make the life of men easier when talking about the game they love. But I don’t want women interested. And neither do most men. So please, I’m asking you nicely, fuck off.
Let me give you a couple of examples. Gabby “The Fake” Logan was on ITV tonight. She made two catastrophic errors. The first was a segue to some other sport news item (probably to do with men again) when she said “without gain, you won’t get pain”. Right. Then later, when showing Bayer Leverkeusen getting a consolation goal back against Liverpool to bring the score to 3-1, she said of Leverkeusen’s scorer - “that sealed it”. Erm, yeah Gabby. Now fuck off and knit.
You know, women doing football is like watching someone from a distance out of Invasion of the Bodysnatchers. You’re not quite sure about their essential humanity. I mean, they look human. They move like humans. But they are not. They remind me of the Israeil Mossad interrogator who gets his victims to co-operate by making them believe he knows more about Islam than they do. How? He asks them to answer such pointless esoterica as “which is the only chapter in the Qur’an without the letter ‘Meem’ in it?” Erm, who cares dude? That’s the kind of thing a woman might know. But she wouldn’t know anything about the essence of football. Gabby looks like a commentator on football. Sometimes she even talks like one. But she will never, ever be one. Not even if she has a sex change. Now Gabby, fuck off to synchronised swimming, or something. Bye!

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de 02.23.05 at 1:46 pm
Oddly, Ron Atkinson actually goes to prove this. Unlike Gabby, he won’t make anyone hover over the remote because he’s blond, nor can he speak English as it is spoken by most humans. I’ll leave out the other obvious broadcasting problems.
But his very voice inflectons are proof he understands the game. He shifts uncomfortably in his seat when being forced to comment on yet another mediocre England player.
There are some good female sports writers who cover football working on the Observer / Guardian but they don’t usually talk about matches - which maybe the key.
Shahid 02.23.05 at 1:56 pm
Women in football are like candidates in that “Faking It” TV show, in which the producers find a hapless librarian, say, and within a month, turn them into a dancer who tries to impress a panel of judges. One of the judges recently said “It’s something to do with the way she moved her shoulder in that moment. No dancer would ever do that. To me, that was the proof”.
You can fool some of the people all of the time etc….
It’s clear that a lot of women in the “profession” of football journalism aren’t there because of a lifelong-love of the sport. And that deep disingenuousness to the point of mockery is what irritates me.
Don’t get me wrong, Motty is utter crap. And he’s been around a pretty long time. But there’s no denying his deep love of the game. There is probably no other job in the world that he would rather be doing. Gabby could be presenting a breakfast show and would be happier.
Shahid 02.23.05 at 2:13 pm
I have two close female friends who enjoy football to varying extents. One is a diehard fan, the other a big-game and tournament viewer.
The former goes to just about every home match and many European away games. The latter is still firmly of the opinion that Urs Meier, the Swiss ref who disallowed the Sol Campbell “goal” should be killed.
They’re both great, but neither could be football commentators. Neither of them are Liverpool fans for a start…
Anonymous 02.25.05 at 4:22 pm
Anders Frisk should be super glued to his F**king sunbed for a week
Shahid 02.25.05 at 7:02 pm
The man is stupidly orange. And funnily enough, so was Frank Riijkard. Hmmm…