Women's Fifa World Cup - Why Is The Bbc Spending All This Time And Effort On It?

[dave50]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/48137701
I dont know anyone, male or female, who is going to watch it or is remotely interested. Yet the BBC insists on spending a load of licence payers money on covering the whole thing. Are they yet again trying to prove how 'inclusive' and right on they are at our expense? I dont care how much they try to ram it down our throats, I wont be watching it, Im not interested.

[dannyk13]

Because a lot of people who you don't know will be watching it.

[pixie374]

Me neither. Neither do I watch men's. I don't think it can be described as "inclusive" though or "right on". Maybe several centuries ago...

[shoota]

Inclusivity.....


But I don't mind it, can't stand male football.

[gingejbee]

No, I won't be watching it.....but I have no problem with the BBC covering it (they don't broadcast just for me).

[Old_Geezer]

I don't see the problem. Is the implied suggestion that the BBC should not ever show women's sporting events ? One isn't likely to be interested in every subject, but a World Cup seems an obvious thing to cover.

[pixie374]

Especially as the women won it much more recently than the men.

[dave50]

It is a minority sport that very few people watch or are interested in. Im sorry if that upsets the few fans that there are but that's how it is. Yet the BBC is on some kind of moral crusade, trying it's damnedest to push it to the forefront of sport at some cost to the licence payer.

[gness]

Honestly, Dave.......only programmes you and people you know are interested in should be shown? There must be many programmes broadcast that don't interest you so is there a hidden agenda here somewhere?....x

Never mind....The Great British Sewing Bee will be back soon then you can have a go at watching men sew.... :-)

[Deskdiary]

There's a football World Cup for women?

"Honestly, Dave.......only programmes you and people you know are interested in should be shown?" You're being wilfully obtuse - it is quite clear what dave is saying, because no matter how the spin is spun, there's no getting away from the fact that it is a minority sport that very few people watch and are interested in.

Almost inevitably somebody will post that women's football is better than men's - I've seen this before, and I've also seen the same comment about women's rugby - but the simple fact of the matter is that neither can hold a candle to the men's game.

Good luck to them, I hope they do well...but I won't be watching either.

[Arksided]

The beeb are trying to outbid Sky and BT for mens football. ;-) having said that I can watch about ten minutes of women's football before nodding off.... I offer no disrespect to them mind.

[Deskdiary]

Arsenal FC - Average attendance = 60,000.
Arsenal WFC - Average attendance = 1,000.

[Gromit]

At least it is only 90 minutes.
The BBC annually screen hundreds of hours of the snorefest that is the World Snooker final.

[Ken4155]

I'll try and watch as many of England's games as i can. Back in the day, my brother and i used to watch quite a few of the local non-league sides, sometimes watching a game almost every evening. Whatever the class of football, there is always lots of endeavour and odd moments of skill. We can't all be City/Liverpool/Spurs fans. And, dave50, i would hazard a guess that many fans of women's football are licence payers, too :-/

[Rockrose]

So because you and the 10 people you know won't be watching it - the BBC shouldn't show it?
Womens football has a huge following - you may not like it but many do!

[Gromit]

42,000 watched the match, despite West Ham’s Premiership team playing a match that afternoon which probably split the West Ham audience.

[Sqad]

I enjoy women's football ( it stimulates my fantasies....one is what do women footballers wear under their kit and my favourite one, what sort of underwear do Air Hostesses wear).

I also like women's rugby.

I give women's tennis a miss, how they get equal pay with men I will never understand.

[Deskdiary]

^^^on a pro-rata basis, at Wimbledon, they earn more than the men.

[Arksided]

Women play rugby... wow... whatever next before you know it they'll be some mad bat running the country.

[10ClarionSt]

Womens' sport is C R 4 P anyway. It only gets the patronising coverage simply because they're wimmin.
I totally agree with the OP.

[margarettom]

I think as a public service broadcaster the BBC are committed to showing certain events both sporting and those of general public interest, so I don't think they had any option but to show it. Personally, I'm not that interested in about 95% of what they show, but don't really expect them to cater for my limited viewing preferences.