Not my words, but rather a précis of FIFA president Sepp Blatter’s somewhat controversial comment that the only way people will ever be interested in women’s football is if the players all start wearing tighter shirts and short-shorts.
"Let the women play in more feminine clothes like they do in volleyball," said the FIFA big cheese, "they could, for example, have tighter shorts." Having clearly spent quite a while thinking about this, his eyes glazed over as he continued: "Female players are pretty, if you excuse me for saying so, and they already have some different rules to men - such as playing with a lighter ball…that decision was taken to create a more female aesthetic, so why not do it in fashion?"
Obviously these sorts of statements tend to rub people the wrong way, and literally within minutes of Mr. Blatter’s verbal diarrhea Pauline Cope, the
Now at STT we like to play devil’s advocate as often as possible, and as such, it seems to us that Ms. Cope has a slight chip on her shoulder and perhaps shouldn’t be so quick to dismiss Blatter’s comments. All men think along the same lines when watching women’s football, because, let’s be honest, the actual standard is worse than abysmal. Even Fulham ladies manager Marieanne Spacey agrees: “Surely it's about skill and tactical ability first and how people look second,” she said. So logically, since they are all intrinsically lacking in skill and tactical ability, appearance should be made paramount in the women’s game? Let’s put it this way: how many more men would watch a women’s match if there were 22 Kylie Minogues were flouncing about for an hour and a half? That kinda shit normally costs hundreds, even in ‘Dam…
