Women's football has been struggling to be taken seriously for years. Why aren't women's football as big as men's? What's your opinion?
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Experts of last DAILY TOPIC: Who should take the blame for Arsenal's failure? Coach? Players? The board?
Every time you think Arsene Wenger has reached his lowest point, this Arsenal team find a way to plumb new depths.
No leadership, no heart and no character. Their latest surrender was an embarrassment, a betrayal of Arsenal’s traditions and Wenger’s legacy.
One half of the team have lost all confidence, the other half looked as if they did not care and Wenger appears to have lost his ability to change the mood from their worst run in 16 years. Not since October 2002 have Arsenal lost four games in a row and looking at this performance it is difficult to know where the next win will come from.
Arsenal are falling apart, Wenger's departure cannot come soon enough and yet the body language of some of the players absolutely stinks as they do not seem ready to fight for their beleaguered manager let alone the shirt.
Mesut Ozil walked through the first half, Henrik Mkhitaryan lacked any sort of courage and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang looked lost and bewildered as if he cannot believe the mess he has got himself into.
Arsenal's away supporters chanted: “We want Wenger Out” during the first half with their team 2-0 down. There was no banner, no plane flying overhead, just a concerted effort from fans who have had enough.
I TRULY believe that the fans have supported ARSENAL enough but it's the manager who is unable to motivate their players for the matches.
I think all of them should take some responsibilities for this failure, some less, some more but the biggest reason for Arsenal's failure in recent years is their poor board politics, sometimes it just doesn't make any sense at all , like they do not even want Arsenal to progress. Who can offer world-class player under his actual value to their rivals, where is profit there?! No for the team, no for the board, without actual profit, there is not any perspective for the future. Arsene's board politics is just too passive and that lasts just for too long. They do not make any smart decision for long-term, great investments for their future, so if there won't be any drastic changes Arsenal future won't be bright.
One of the biggest mistakes from Arsenal board is to tolerate mediocrity, they are aware that Arsene Wenger ( Who is problem number two)lost his football touch , he is not as sharp as before , his tactics are just too archaic but they are just passive observers , won't replace Arsene Wenger with younger ,more capable coach with fresh ideas , fresh vision of modern football. With such a poor board politics Arsenal won't progress, not even in a million years.
So of course, there must be some drastic changes, they should replace all leading men and restart Arsenal completely, then Arsenal will have some chance to return their old glory back. About players , yes they must take some responsibilities as well but not in that big magnitude because basically they all are great players with amazing football qualities and huge potential but they are just not motivated enough , there is not life in their game ,no proper team-spirit, seems that they are lost in Arsene's poor tactics, wrong playing formation and positions of some players.
Some players would be much more effective on other positions and maybe Ozil would show more creativity and effectiveness if he would used as false 10. Every single player must be used properly so that they could show their actual value. I really hope Arsenal will finally start to make wise decisions beneficial for the TEAM, Arsenal must return their old glory back but for that to happen, drastic changes are needed!
irele
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For me I think the reason why Female professional footballers are not as popular as men is because of the love for the game by their fellow Females. Look at the men you can hardly find a man who does not like football even if he is not a strong supporter. But alot of females dislike football some even hate football because they think it takes away their mans attention. So it is difficult to grow something alot of people are not interested in.
cxllxs
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one reason and one reason alone football started as a mens sport and with that start it gave berth to legends such as pele,cruyff,ronaldinho,maradona and now we are witnessing the likes of cr7 ans leo messi it will take centurys for womens football to reach the level that mens football are at and them still mens football will tower because of the rivalries and the legends,it's not something you can change because it created itself
CityMan
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not really it's like 2 different sports basically one which has billions of fans and the rest not a portion of that so starting to watch womens football now would be like starting to watch a new lowkey sport,we fans grow up with watching football you can't just reach that passion by simply watching something new you have to grow up with it and grow into it
That's exactly my point though. It has potential for the future because it is currently growing. Football is not going to stop when we're dead and gone man! I get what you're saying but again I don't watch woman's and there's an obvious reason for that. But I think we should atleast hope that one day it'll be just as entertaining. But yes it would take a long time.
rihdenou
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I think it's because men are better than women at football. In Europe's top leagues we see that there is a high number of viewers on TV and present in the stadium. While in lesser leagues we see that it isn't so because players that are more talented have more interesting games than smaller leagues. I believe that the same applies to women. Men are better at soccer than women, therefore men's soccer is watched more than women's