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Clearly, England Hates Women's Soccer

Sep 21, 2007 – 1:30 PM
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David J. Warner

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Y'know, I was really starting to like Goal, the New York Times' soccer blog, just for the fact that they let Jozy Altidore blog. Then they exposed me to this:


If you thought we were condescending toward women watching football in America, feast your eyes on comedienne Clare Challoner's attempt to promote women and football in England. Apparently, this is what passes for support of England's women's team, which faces the USA in the FIFA Women's World Cup on Saturday. And if Goal made me suffer this, you must suffer, too.

Maybe I just have a different view of this sort of thing, being from a country where Mia Hamm's Q score is still much higher than Clint Dempsey's. On the other hand, England's reaction to women in football may still be slightly more enlightened than what you might get in, say, Saudi Arabia or Egypt.
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