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Should Women's teams results count towards Premier League Title?

posted 3 years ago by FootOfDavros (8176)
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There's a massive drive on at places like the BBC website to drive forward Women's football. They've started masking headlines with just the results between the club names and try to obscure the fact that it is women's football presumably in an attempt to get accidentally clicks which they'd use the count of to claim it's becoming more popular. Tbh I'm not sure that's ever going to work.

Would a way of genuinely enforcing male interest in the sport be to double up the points available for the Premier League for both the men's and women's teams? i.e. Every male team would need to have an equivalent female side in the league and both sides would play the same number of fixtures, with the same number of points available to both the men's and women's teams. The club winning the league would be the one with the most combined points.

I think this would work. You could have the title at the end of the season coming down to Liverpool Ladies Vs Chelsea Women and the entire country would be invested in it and know the players inside out, etc...

[–] Crocodile (3127) 3 years ago

This would create a mess though

[–] FootOfDavros (8176) 3 years ago

How so?

[–] Zinger (2335) 3 years ago

Or we could just let women's football die and stop trying to make it a thing.

[–] FootOfDavros (8176) 3 years ago

Women's football isn't going to die. It wasn't dead before the WPL rebranding and it always existed / would exist at it's level.

The point of the OP was that they are trying to make it a thing (regardless of whether that's a good thing or not), so why not just go the whole hog? If you combined the points tallies that would definitely do it...

[–] NotoriousRio (12927) 3 years ago

How would that even work? You’d need the same exact teams in each division, Reading and Birmingham are both currently in the Women’s Super League and not in the Premiership, would Birmingham City and Reading get promoted to the Premiership just to work in tandem with the WSL? Not to mention all the other teams who would have to get relegated to match up with this idea.

The only interest this idea would gain is outrage and dismay, much like the failed European Super League announcement did.

[–] FootOfDavros (8176) 3 years ago

Well yeah, that's why I said "Every male team would need to have an equivalent female side in the league". You'd basically have to align the structure as one club one men's team one women's team.

And Man Utd / City didn't even have women's teams until recently and they screwed over other women's sides over to get them into the WPL. I remember reading about how Doncaster Belles, a proper women's club, got utterly shafted despite their success.

Basically women's football already has a rich history of shafting their own heritage to latch on to PL money...

[–] NotoriousRio (12927) 3 years ago

Yeah, it will never work because it’s impossible to implement.

I too remember Doncaster Belles, Women's football worked better with its own identity in my opinion, Doncaster Belles are now known as Doncaster Rovers Belles after the men’s team, but they originally had their own unique logo and football kit, far different to the colours of Doncaster Rovers.

[–] FootOfDavros (8176) 3 years ago

Women's football worked better with its own identity in my opinion

Totally agree.

And in a weird way it's kind of counter feminist what they've done. Rather than being strong independent women, they've been happy to take the patriarchal dollar from the men's game!

[–] TheArgentinian (7073) 3 years ago

Yes. Do you hate women or something?