Problem would be solved easily if the ladies spoke to Ben White on tanning advice.
So they are willing to take less qualified players for diversity?
what
What?
what
Bizarre.
How?
Because skin colour or ethnicity should not lower or increase your chances to become a pro football player.
The virtue isn’t gonna signal itself.
Before everyone gets angry, they’re not saying that they’re gonna purposely pick more players of different ethnicities. They’re saying that they’re working on encouraging more of them into football
Reddit gets very testy whenever the topic of diversity in the workforce comes up, even when the context is as tame as “We’d like to make sure that everyone feels there’s a possibility of finding successful employment here”.
This is a sensible and actually admirable example of it to be fair. Recent “diversity pushes” like the RAF actively rejecting candidates because they were white was abhorrent.
Every push for diversity is by definition a push for " anyone but a white man" and by definition racist
Nowt to get testy about. Cream always rises to the top.
You say that, but Arsenal are literally responding to freaks getting angry on Twitter about their team photo
Just pick the best.
Ramsdale might become starter for Arsenal after all
Lmao what a comment well done
Ariana Ramsdale
Whatever happened to the best person for the job?
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Heaven forbid
And not the best players as a priority?
Do you not develop, sign and play the best team you can, to win as many games as possible? This is embarrassing.
If diversity is an area they want to improve, they should focus on youth development and community programmes.
Or how about they judge players based on skill
That’s bullshit, I don’t know their nationality but isn’t it just nice if you have more British players as a club in UK? I hate how my club often only has one native player in their starting 11.
People saying “What” in the comments clearly haven’t read the article and jumping to conclusions.
It’s not hard to see the glaring differences between women’s and men’s football in the UK. While a lot of Premier League stars are from working class backgrounds, most WSL players are from middle class families instead.
Supporting grassroots, accessible women’s football is only going to help in giving young girls opportunities in life, and spots talent which would never get the chance otherwise.
Good on them for recognising this tbh.
my hottest take is that all articles should require you to answer a reading comprehension questionnaire before you can post a comment.
not even anything complex, just something like “what is the first name of the player who spoke on the podcast?”. literally a “did you read…?”.
Football is one of the cheapest sports to play. You just need one ball that cots 10pounds and 20 kids can have fun on the street. All those working class girls need is a desire to play football which they obviously don’t have. And it is not an opportunity either… the mean salary in WSL is £47,000. This is if you become one of the best 400 football players in the country (which is extremely difficult, by the way). This is by no means an opportunity for those girls… they are better of studying and becoming doctors, lawyers, etc…
All those working class girls need is a desire to play football which they obviously don’t have
I’m getting strong “Look at the Lobster, for example” vibes here.
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Yeah that’s a pretty uncommon level of self awareness from my recollection. Hopefully this starts something with some positive impact.
Yeah, once you read the article it makes perfect sense. Glad we’re gonna be spearheading this