I've just watched a bit of the women's football.
How can the standard of women's football still be so shite?! Women have been playing football for decades now and the physical aspect of the game is becoming less of a factor so why the hell is it so bad? I've played in Sunday teams better than what I've witnessed on telly.
It just makes no sense.
Women have been playing football for ages, but the funding for it worldwide is negligible, no one wants to spend the money on coaches etc for them so therefore the development takes a lot longer. I was talking to one of the Matildas a while back and she told me the funding is based on performance, so with them not qualifying for the Olympics this time round, a big chunk of valuable funding will not be given to a team that desperately needs every dollar possible. I am unsure of what it is like with the UK and USA, but I doubt it would be much better?
The long and short of it is despite being more athletic, the more the women develop, the men develop even further, the gap increases. Sadly the only way I can improve as a referee is to referee men's games as the speed difference is what I need to be able to outperform on the women's leagues.
